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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195154770

ISBN-139780195154771

eBay Product ID (ePID)2431893

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Number of Pages312 Pages

Publication NameWilliam Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! : a Casebook

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

SubjectSubjects & Themes / Historical events, General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorFred Hobson

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

SeriesCasebooks in Criticism Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight16.2 Oz

Item Length5.7 in

Item Width8.3 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2002-013988

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.52

Table Of ContentIntroduction1. History and the Sense of the Tragic2. Repetition and Revenge3. The Signifying Abstraction: Reading "The Negro" in Absalom, Absalom!4. Absalom, Absalom! and the House Divided5. The Silencing of Rosa Coldfield6. Sutpen's Design7. "The Direction of the Howling": Nationalism and the Color Line in Absalom, Absalom!8. Absalom, Absalom!, Haiti and Labor History: Reading Unreadable Revolution: Richard Godden9. Remarks on Absalom, Absalom!Suggested Reading

SynopsisAbsalom, Absalom has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred Hobson has brought together eight of the most stimulating essays on Absalom, essays written over a thirty-year span which approach the novel both formally and historically. Here are critical responses by Cleanth Brooks, John Irwin, Thadious Davis, and Eric Sundquist, as well as four essays published in the last decade. The casebook concludes with Faulkner's own remarks on the novel, delivered in a discussion with students at the University of Virginia. What emerges from all the selections is a rich and suggestive treatment of a work which Faulkner himself called "the best novel yet written by an American" and a less biased critic has called "the greatest American novel of the century... joining Moby-Dick and Huckleberry Finn at the pinnacle of American fiction.", Absalom, Absalom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred Hobson has brought together eight of the most stimulating essays on Absalom , essays written over a thirty-year span which approach the novel both formally and historically. Here are critical responses by Cleanth Brooks, John Irwin, Thadious Davis, and Eric Sundquist, as well as four essays published in the last decade. The casebook concludes with Faulkner's own remarks on the novel, delivered in a discussion with students at the University of Virginia. What emerges from all the selections is a rich and suggestive treatment of a work which Faulkner himself called "the best novel yet written by an American" and a less biased critic has called "the greatest American novel of the century... joining Moby-Dick and Huckleberry Finn at the pinnacle of American fiction.", Absalom, Absalom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred Hobson has brought together eight of the most stimulating essays on Absalom, essays written over a thirty-year span which approach the novel both formally and historically. Here are critical responses by Cleanth Brooks, John Irwin, Thadious Davis, and Eric Sundquist, as well as four essays published in the last decade. The casebook concludes with Faulkner's own remarks on the novel, delivered in a discussion with students at the University of Virginia. What emerges from all the selections is a rich and suggestive treatment of a work which Faulkner himself called "the best novel yet written by an American" and a less biased critic has called "the greatest American novel of the century... joining Moby-Dick and Huckleberry Finn at the pinnacle of American fiction."

LC Classification NumberPS3511.A86A775 2003