Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting

by Richard C. Moreland

Book Overview

Throughout his career Faulkner retold some of the same stories about some of the same events and characters, but retold them differently. For many years now these rewritings and revisions have been judged failures of craft. But Faulkner knew they were there and defended his discrepancies, associating them with learning about human character. Richard Moreland argues that these revisionary repetitions in fact constitute Faulkner's conscious critique...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299125041
• ISBN13: 9780299125042
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"