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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778909903321

Autore

Clarke Deborah

Titolo

Robbing The Mother [[electronic resource] ] : Women in Faulkner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2012

ISBN

1-283-45511-0

9786613455116

1-60473-661-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 p.)

Disciplina

813/.52

Soggetti

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Characters -- Women

Motherhood in literature

Mothers in literature

Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Women in literature

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Texts; 1. ""Worth Any Number of Old Ladies""; 2. Erasing and Inventing Motherhood: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying; 3. Sexuality, Inhumanity, and Violation: Sanctuary and The Hamlet; 4. Bodies and Language: Light in August and The Wild Palms; 5. Fantastic Women and Notmothers: Absalom, Absalom!; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; U; W

Sommario/riassunto

William Faulkner claimed that it may be necessary for a writer to ""rob his mother,"" should the need arise. ""If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies,"" he remarked.This study of Faulkner's paradoxical attitude toward women, particularly mothers, will stimulate debate and concern, for his novels are shown here to have presented them as both a source and a threat to being and to language.""My reading of Faulkner,"" the



author says, ""attempts more than an identification of female stereotypes and an examination of mis