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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814692903321

Autore

Railey Kevin <1954->

Titolo

Natural Aristocracy : History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8173-8635-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

813.52

813/.52

Soggetti

Aristocracy (Political science) in literature

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Knowledge -- History

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Political and social views

Literature and history -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century

Literature and society -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century

Southern States -- In literature

Literature and history - History - 20th century - Mississippi

Literature and society - History - 20th century - Mississippi

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

Southern States In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: History, Ideology, Subjectivity; 1. Faulkner's Mississippi: Ideology and Southern History; 2. Faulkner's Ideology: Ideology and Subjectivity; Part Two: Faulkner, Paternalism, Liberalism; 3. The Sound and the Fury: Faulkner's Birth into History; 4. Sanctuary: The Social Psychology of Paternalism; 5. As I Lay Dying and Light in August: The Social Realities of Liberalism; Part Three: Faulkner's Authorial Ideology; 6. Absalom, Absalom! and Natural Aristocracy; 7. Absalom, Absalom! and the Southern Ideology of Race; Part Four: Faulkner's Social Vision

8. The Snopes Trilogy as Social Vision9. The Reivers: Imaginary



Resolutions and Utopian Yearnings; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Kevin Railey uses a materialist critical approach--which envisions literature as a discourse necessarily interactive with other forces in the world--to identify and historicize Faulkner's authorial identity. Working from the assumption that Faulkner was deeply affected by the sociohistorical forces that surrounded his life, Railey explores the interrelationships between American history and Faulkner's fiction, between southern history and Faulkner's subjectivity. Railey argues that Faulkner's obsession with history and his struggle with specific ideologies affecting south