Who's Who In Faulkner
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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For readers navigating the vast, labyrinthine world of William Faulkner's fiction, Who's Who in Faulkner is an indispensable compass — a meticulously compiled reference guide that catalogs the sprawling cast of characters populating one of American literature's most complex and richly imagined mythologies. Margaret Patricia Ford and Suzanne Kincaid present an alphabetical directory of the hundreds of characters drawn from Faulkner's novels and short stories, from the doomed Compsons of The Sound and the Fury to the enduring Snopes clan of his celebrated Yoknapatawpha County trilogy, providing readers with essential biographical details, family relationships, and cross-references across the Faulkner canon. This scholarly yet accessible work illuminates the extraordinary interconnectedness of Faulkner's fictional universe, a world where characters recur, evolve, and echo across decades of storytelling with the weight of living memory. The authors argue, through careful documentation, that Faulkner's genius lies not in isolated narratives but in the cumulative portrait of an entire society — its honour, its decay, its racial tensions, and its tragic grandeur. As a reference tool, it remains as vital today as when first published, serving both the casual reader and the serious scholar, and leaving one to wonder: how many more secrets still lie buried in Yoknapatawpha County?
Author: Margaret Patricia Ford And Suzanne Kincaid
Format: Paperback
Published: 1963, Louisiana State University Press
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
For readers navigating the vast, labyrinthine world of William Faulkner's fiction, Who's Who in Faulkner is an indispensable compass — a meticulously compiled reference guide that catalogs the sprawling cast of characters populating one of American literature's most complex and richly imagined mythologies. Margaret Patricia Ford and Suzanne Kincaid present an alphabetical directory of the hundreds of characters drawn from Faulkner's novels and short stories, from the doomed Compsons of The Sound and the Fury to the enduring Snopes clan of his celebrated Yoknapatawpha County trilogy, providing readers with essential biographical details, family relationships, and cross-references across the Faulkner canon. This scholarly yet accessible work illuminates the extraordinary interconnectedness of Faulkner's fictional universe, a world where characters recur, evolve, and echo across decades of storytelling with the weight of living memory. The authors argue, through careful documentation, that Faulkner's genius lies not in isolated narratives but in the cumulative portrait of an entire society — its honour, its decay, its racial tensions, and its tragic grandeur. As a reference tool, it remains as vital today as when first published, serving both the casual reader and the serious scholar, and leaving one to wonder: how many more secrets still lie buried in Yoknapatawpha County?