Research Catalog

Title

Following Faulkner : the critical response to Yoknapatawpha's architect / Taylor Hagood.

Author

Hagood, Taylor, 1975-

Publication

• Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Series Statement

Studies in American literature and culture: literary criticism in perspective

Uniform Title

Studies in American literature and culture. Literary criticism in perspective.

Subject

• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 > Criticism and interpretation
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 > Influence
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Originality in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-148) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Genius in the hinterland -- From new critical heights to structural and archival groundings -- The grip of theory -- Global Faulkner -- Forecast : future trends in Faulkner scholarship -- Works by William Faulkner.

Call Number

JFE 17-4104

ISBN

• 9781571135872
• 1571135871

LCCN

2016050883

OCLC

974566919

Author

Hagood, Taylor, 1975- author.

Title

Following Faulkner : the critical response to Yoknapatawpha's architect / Taylor Hagood.

Publisher

Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Description

153 pages ; 24 cm

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in American literature and culture: literary criticism in perspective

Studies in American literature and culture. Literary criticism in perspective.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-148) and index.

Summary

"William Faulkner seems to have sprung a full-blown genius from a remote part of the American South. Yet Faulkner spent much of his life striving to emulate and overshadow--both as a writer and as a person--his great-grandfather and namesake, Colonel William Falkner, a dueling, railroad-building, soldiering figure who loomed not just as a legend in Faulkner's family and community but also as a literary forebear, a published novelist, travel writer, and poet. Looking back on his career, Faulkner would mention that early on he had ridden his great-grandfather's coattails, but by the mid twentieth century it was clear that it was the great-grandson who was leading the literary world: readers, young writers of fiction, and literary critics were following him as one who had found extraordinary ways to capture and express the most challenging aspects of modern life. Taylor Hagood's book centers on the concept of following to examine how Faulkner's work has been analyzed, elucidated, and promoted by a massive body of scholarly work spanning over seven decades. It narrates the development of Faulkner criticism, taking as its premise the idea that Faulkner forges a fiery path through modernism and into postmodernism that literary critics have been constantly rushing to follow"-- Provided by publisher.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-4104