Research Catalog

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

• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 > Criticism and interpretation
• Melancholy in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780253022998
• 0253022991
• 9780253023438 (canceled/invalid)
• 0253023432 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 933437843
• SCSB-11038383

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library