Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! - Brossura

Urgo, Joseph R.

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ISBN 10: 1604735783 ISBN 13: 9781604735789

Casa editrice: University Press of Mississippi, 2010

Riassunto

Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." On another level, the book narrates the tragedy that befalls the entire Sutpen family and that tragedy's legacy that continues well into the twentieth century and beyond. The novel's intricate, demanding prose style, and its haunting dramatization of the South's intricate, demanding history make it a masterpiece of twentieth-century American literature.

Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! offers a close examination and interpretation of the novel. Here difficult words and cultural terms that might prove to be a problem for general readers are explained and keyed to page numbers in the definitive Faulkner text (Library of America and Vintage editions). The authors place Faulkner's novel in its historical context, while also connecting it to his other works.

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For teachers and students, a guide to understanding one of Faulkner's masterpieces

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• Editore: University Press of Mississippi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1604735783
• ISBN 13: 9781604735789
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224