Faulkner and Material Culture
Faulkner and Material Culture
University Press of Mississippi | May 29, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1578069394 | 155 pages | PDF | 1.17 MB
University Press of Mississippi | May 29, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1578069394 | 155 pages | PDF | 1.17 MB
Photographs, lumber, airplanes, hand-hewn coffins–in every William Faulkner novel and short story worldly material abounds. The essays in Faulkner and Material Culture provide a fresh understanding of the things Faulkner brought from the world around him to the one he created.Charles S. Aiken surveys Faulkner's representation of terrain and concludes, contrary to established criticism, that to Faulkner, Yoknapatawpha was not a microcosm of the South but a very particular and quite specifically located place. Jay Watson works with literary theory, philosophy, the history of woodworking and furniture-making, and social and intellectual history to explore how Light in August is tied intimately to the region's logging and woodworking industries.