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Languages : en
Pages : 111
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Special Issue: William Faulkner
Author: Special Issue on William Faulkner
Author: James B. MeriwetherSpecial Issue on William Faulkner
Author: William Faulkner
Author: Mississippi Quarterly
Author: William Faulkner
Author: Thomas L. McHaneySpecial Issue on William Faulkner
Author: William FaulknerThe New William Faulkner Studies
Author: Sarah Gleeson-WhitePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840892
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This volume situates Faulkner within a range of current and emerging critical fields, such as African American studies, visual culture studies, world literatures, modernist studies, gender studies, and the energy humanities. The essays are written with the Faulkner expert and general reader in mind, and covers the full range of Faulkner's opus.
Special Issue on William Faulkner
Author: William FaulknerInventing Benjy
Author: Frédérique SpillPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496849027
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap is a groundbreaking work at the intersection of Faulkner studies and disability studies. Originally published in 2009 by Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle as L’Idiotie dans l’œuvre de Faulkner, this translation brings the book to English-language readers for the first time. Author Frédérique Spill begins with a sustained look at the monologue of Benjy Compson, the initial first-person narrator in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. Spill questions the reasons for this narrative choice, bringing readers to consider Benjy’s monologue, which is told by a narrator who is deaf and cognitively disabled, as an impossible discourse. This paradoxical discourse, which relies mostly on senses and sensory perception, sets the foundation of a sophisticated poetics of idiocy. Using this form of writing, Faulkner shaped perspective from a disabled character, revealing a certain depth to characters that were previously only portrayed on a shallow level. This style encompasses some of the most striking forms and figures of his leap into modern(ist) writing. In that respect, Inventing Benjy thoroughly examines Benjy’s discourse as an experimental workshop in which objects and words are exclusively modelled by the senses. This study regards Faulkner’s decision to place a disabled character at the center of perception as the inaugural and emblematic gesture of his writing. Closely examining excerpts from Faulkner’s novels and a few short stories, Spill emphasizes how the corporal, temporal, sensorial, and narrative figures of "idiocy" are reflected throughout Faulkner’s work. These writing choices underlie some of his most compelling inventions and certainly contribute to his unmistakable writing style. In the process, Faulkner’s writing takes on a phenomenological dimension, simultaneously dismantling and reinventing the intertwined dynamics of perception and language.