William Faulkner an economy of complex words / Richard Godden.

Author/creator Godden, Richard, 1946-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPrinceton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Descriptionx, 251 pages ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.
Economics in literature.

Series20/21
20/21 (Princeton, N.J.) ^A719806
Contents Earthing The hamlet -- Comparative cows : reading The hamlet for its residues -- Revenants, remnants, and counterrevolution in "The fire and the hearth" -- "Pantaloons in black" and "The old people" : migration, mourning, and the exquisite corpse of African American labor -- Reading the ledgers : textual variants and labor variables (with Noel Polk) -- Find the Jew : modernity, seriality, and armaments in A fable -- "The bugger's a Jew" : a fable as melancholic allegory.
Summary Annotation InWilliam Faulkner, Richard Godden traces how the novelist's late fiction echoes the economic and racial traumas of the South's delayed modernization in the mid-twentieth century. As the New Deal rapidly accelerated the long-term shift from tenant farming to modern agriculture, many African Americans were driven from the land and forced to migrate north. At the same time, white landowners exchanged dependency on black labor for dependency on northern capital. Combining powerful close readings ofThe Hamlet, Go Down, Moses, andA Fablewith an examination of southern economic history from the 1930s to the 1950s, Godden shows how the novels' literary complexities--from their narrative structures down to their smallest verbal emphases--reflect and refract the period's economic complexities. By demonstrating the interrelation of literary forms and economic systems, the book describes, in effect, the poetics of an economy. Original in the way it brings together close reading and historical context, William Faulkneroffers innovative interpretations of late Faulkner and makes a unique contribution to the understanding of the relation between literature and history.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [203]-234) and index.
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LCCN 2006050964
ISBN9780691130712 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN069113071X (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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