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The ink of melancholy : Faulkner's novels from The sound and the fury to Light in August
- Title
- The ink of melancholy : Faulkner's novels from The sound and the fury to Light in August / André Bleikasten.
- Author
- Bleikasten, André
- Publication
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.
- ©1990
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 400 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Ink of Melancholy re-examines and re-evaluates William Faulkner's work from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, one of his most creative periods. Rather than approach Faulkner's fiction through a prefabricated grid, André Bleikasten concentrates on the texts themselves--on the motivations and circumstances of their composition, on the rich array of their themes, structures, textures, points of emphasis and repetition, as well as their rifts and gaps--while drawing on the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology. Brilliant in its thought and argument, Ink of Melancholy is one of the most insightful and stimulating studies of Faulkner's work."--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Masks and mirrors -- The struggle with the angel. The quest for Eurydice -- The agony of dispossession -- The young man, desire, and death -- Of time and the unreal -- The poison of resentment -- An Easter without Resurrection? -- Requiem for a mother. A "Tour de Force" -- A dying life, a living death -- Turns of madness -- The real and its representations -- The blackness of darkness. "The most horrific tale" -- Terror and transgression -- The madness of bodies -- The internal nursery -- Versions of the sun. In praise of Helen -- The cracked urns -- The perils of purity -- The fathers -- Circles -- Epilogue: Under the sign of Saturn.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-6209
- ISBN
- 9780253022998
- 0253022991
- OCLC
- 933437843
- Author
- Bleikasten, André, author.
- Title
- The ink of melancholy : Faulkner's novels from The sound and the fury to Light in August / André Bleikasten.
- Publisher
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©1990
- Edition
- First paperback edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-6209