William Faulkner: His Life and Work - Softcover

Minter, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801857473 ISBN 13: 9780801857478

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Synopsis

In this highly acclaimed biography, David Minter draws upon a wealth of material, including the novelist's essays, interviews, published and unpublished letters, as well as his poems, stories, and novels, to illuminate the close relationship between the flawed life and the artistic achievement of one of twentieth-century America's most complex literary figures. In the process, he reveals a Faulkner who is powerful, vulnerable, real―every bit as fascinating as the characters he created. Anyone who has ever tarried in Yoknapatawpha County will find this a sensitive and readable account of the novelist's struggles in art and life. In his new preface, Minter locates his biography in relation to the changes in the literary critical landscape during the 1980s and discusses its departures from New Critical tenets about the relationship between authors' lives and their works.

About this title

Book Description:

A widely acclaimed biography presents a Faulkner who is powerful, vulnerable, real―every bit as fascinating as the characters he created.

About the Author:

David Minter is Libbie Shern Moody Professor of English at Rice University. He is the author of The Interpreted Design as a Structural Principle in American Prose and A Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801857473
• ISBN 13: 9780801857478
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 344