Reading Faulkner

by Wesley Morris

The general argument advanced by the Morrises in this ambitious work revolves around the idea that William Faulkner is deeply critical of the prevailing Southern myth and discourse; furthermore, that his narratives are an attempt to discover and amplify alternative voices within that dominant milieu. Those voices and the stories they tell are most often those of the unprivileged in race, class, and gender--the black, the poor white, the woman, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299122204
• ISBN13: 9780299122201
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"