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Absalom, Absalom! : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism /

"This Norton Critical Edition of Absalom, Absalom! features the authoritative 1986 edition of William Faulkner's experimental Southern Gothic novel published by Random House, Inc. Originally published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! examines Southern and Caribbean plantation history through the...

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Main Authors: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 (Author)
Group Author: Parrish, Susan Scott (Editor)
Published: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
Publisher Address: New York, N.Y. :
Publication Dates: [2023]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Series: Norton critical editions
Subjects:
Sutpen family (Fictitious characters) > Fiction.
Faulkner, William, > 1897-1962. > Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner, William)
1800-1999
Plantation life > Fiction.
Mississippi > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Mississippi > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Plantation life in literature.
Vie dans les plantations > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Literature.
Plantation life.
Mississippi > In literature.
Mississippi > Dans la littérature.
Mississippi.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Summary: "This Norton Critical Edition of Absalom, Absalom! features the authoritative 1986 edition of William Faulkner's experimental Southern Gothic novel published by Random House, Inc. Originally published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! examines Southern and Caribbean plantation history through the life course of Thomas Sutpen and his Black and white family members before, during, and after the American Civil War, as imagined by four narrators in 1909-1910. "Backgrounds and Contexts" highlights contemporary reception of the novel, Faulkner's early versions of the saga, and his own commentary upon it. The "Historical Contexts" section provides readers with essential information on race and class relations in the story's locales (Mississippi, Haiti, Virginia and New Orleans), Chickasaw dispossession, the Civil War home front, as well as on how the plantation past was memorialized. In the "Criticism" section, scholars share analyses which examine questions of narrative method and media, as well as themes of race, gender, sexuality, illness, geography and capitalism in the text. A selected biography and chronology are also included"--
Carrier Form: xxxi, 705 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780393422580
0393422585
Index Number: PS3511
CLC: I712.45
Call Number: I712.45/F263-52

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