Faulkner's Artistic Vision: The Bizarre and the Terrible
Faulkner's Artistic Vision brings together insights drawn from the novels, from humor theory including Faulkner's own, and from the rich scholarly literature on Faulkner. It proposes an understanding of Faulkner as a writer whose vision encompassed and blended the bizarre and the terrible. As a result, Faulkner's fiction, even at its bleakest, reveals a profound and multivalent sense of humor. And to attend to that humor is to discover still subtler and more mature fictions within even...
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Yamaguchi (English and American literature, Aichi U., Toyohashi, Japan) explores American writer William Faulkner's (1897-1962) use of humor in his novels from Soldier's Pay to Absalom, Absalom, which are known mostly for their tragic intensity. He focuses on the relation of the jokes to the novels in which they appear rather than to Faulkner's unconsciousness, allowing him more authorial control than current theory considers quite decent. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Acknowledgments7Introduction91"Watch it fall, sir" : Soldiers' pay212"The world of art" : Mosquitoes443To capture that world : Flags in the dust674An elegiac howl : The sound and the fury925"Sometimes I aint so sho" : As I lay dying1156"Spitting into the spring" : Sanctuary1407A Yoknapatawpha pantheon : Light in August1668"Between infinity and dust" : Pylon1899"A might-have-been more true than truth" : Absalom, Absalom!209Conclusion241Notes243Works Cited288Index306
