Faulkner's Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities

by John N. Duvall

Book Overview

Is William Faulkner's fiction built on a fundamental dichotomy of outcast individual versus the healthy agrarian community? The New Critics of the 1930s advanced this view, and it has shaped much Faulkner criticism. However, in Faulkner's Marginal Couple, John Duvall posits the existence of another possibility, alternative communities formed by "deviant" couples. These couples, who violate "normal" gender roles and behaviors, challenge the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292735944
• ISBN13: 9780292735941
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"