William Faulkner : an economy of complex words /

In William Faulkner, Richard Godden traces how the novelist's late fiction echoes the economic and racial traumas of the South's delayed modernization in the mid-twentieth century. As the New Deal rapidly accelerated the long-term shift from tenant farming to modern agriculture, many Afric...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Godden, Richard, 1946-
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2007.
Colecção:20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sb40
Sumário:
  • Earthing The hamlet
  • Comparative cows : reading The hamlet for its residues
  • Revenants, remnants, and counterrevolution in "The fire and the hearth"
  • "Pantaloons in black" and "The old people" : migration, mourning, and the exquisite corpse of African American labor
  • Reading the ledgers : textual variants and labor variables (with Noel Polk)
  • Find the Jew : modernity, seriality, and armaments in A fable
  • "The bugger's a Jew" : a fable as melancholic allegory.