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Faulkner's Media Romance
Contributor(s): Murphet, Julian (Author)

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 ISBN: 0190077808     ISBN-13: 9780190077808
Publisher: Oxford University Press
OUR PRICE: $40.84  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - Regional
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 813.52
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.70 lbs) 298 pages
 
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This book treats William Faulkner's major fiction--from Flags in the Dust through to Absalom, Absalom!--to a searching reappraisal under the spotlight of a media-historical inquiry. It proposes that Faulkner's inveterate attraction to the paradigms of romance was disciplined and masked by the
recurrent use of metaphorical figures borrowed from the new media ecology. Faulkner dressed up his romance materials in the technological garb of radio, gramophony, photography, and cinema, along with the transportational networks of road and air that were being installed in the 1920s. His modernism
emerges from a fraght but productive interplay between his anachronistic predilection for chivalric chichés and his extraordinarily knowledgeable interest in the most up-to-date media institutions and forms. Rather than see Faulkner as a divided author, who worked for money in the magazines and
studios while producing his serious fiction in despite of their symbolic economies, this study demonstrates how profoundly his mature art was shot through with the figures and dynamics of the materials he publicly repudiated. The result is a richer and more nuanced understanding of the dialectics of
his art.
 
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