William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond - Hardcover

Brooks, Cleanth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300022042 ISBN 13: 9780300022049

Publisher: Yale Univ Pr, 1978

Synopsis

An examination of the five non-Yoknapatawpha novels, in themselves and in their relationship with Faulkner's central accomplishment, sheds light on Faulkner's development, technique, themes, and concerns

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Recognizing that the creative and imaginative center of Faulkner's art is Yoknapatawpha County, Brooks examines the merits of each of the works set beyond these boundaries and explores how these writings complement Faulkner as an artist. He sheds light on the literary sources that influenced Faulkner's early work and the technical innovations and general themes Faulkner was to develop in the later writing.

About the Author:

Cleanth Brooks (1906--1994) was born in Kentucky, and educated at Vanderbilt, Tulane, and Oxford where he was a Rhodes scholar. He began his teaching career at Louisiana State University in 1932. To many minds, Brooks is the archetypal New Critic, the man whose catch phrases, critical studies, and college textbooks epitomized New Critical ideas, practice, and pedagogy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0300022042
• ISBN 13: 9780300022049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 445