Reflecting developments in Faulkner criticism, these papers
delivered at the 1980 Faulkner and Yoknapatawtha Conference point
the way to a new and relatively unexplored avenue of research--the
study of relationships among Faulkner's seemingly distinct novels.
No longer satisfied to look only at the individual work, critics
are instead surveying the whole field of Faulkner's fiction. Many
of the lectures collected in this volume direct attention to the
full scope and range of Faulkner's fictional world, searching for,
and finding, unity, harmony, and interrelationships. Some of the
essays, like Ellen Douglas's "Faulkner in Time" and James
Carothers's "The Road to The Reivers," examine all of Faulkner's
novels, seeking to uncover an overall design and meaning. Others
trace the appearances, in work after work, of one theme or figure.
Among the subjects considered in this way are Faulkner's women, his
black characters, his heroes, his aristocrats, and his attitude
toward death.
Taken together, these essays implicitly acknowledge the
appropriateness of metaphor of a cosmos for Faulkner's fictional
creation. To be fully and accurately understood, each single part
of Faulkner's vast system of fictional meanings, like the separate
worlds in a cosmos, must be assessed in the context of the
whole.
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