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Inventing Benjy - William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap
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Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap
is a groundbreaking work at the intersection of Faulkner studies
and disability studies. Originally published in 2009 by Presses de
la Sorbonne Nouvelle as L’Idiotie dans l’œuvre de Faulkner,
this translation brings the book to English-language readers for
the first time. Author Frédérique Spill begins with a sustained
look at the monologue of Benjy Compson, the initial first-person
narrator in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. Spill questions
the reasons for this narrative choice, bringing readers to consider
Benjy’s monologue, which is told by a narrator who is deaf and
cognitively disabled, as an impossible discourse. This paradoxical
discourse, which relies mostly on senses and sensory perception,
sets the foundation of a sophisticated poetics of idiocy. Using
this form of writing, Faulkner shaped perspective from a disabled
character, revealing a certain depth to characters that were
previously only portrayed on a shallow level. This style
encompasses some of the most striking forms and figures of his leap
into modern(ist) writing. In that respect, Inventing Benjy
thoroughly examines Benjy’s discourse as an experimental workshop
in which objects and words are exclusively modelled by the senses.
This study regards Faulkner’s decision to place a disabled
character at the center of perception as the inaugural and
emblematic gesture of his writing. Closely examining excerpts from
Faulkner’s novels and a few short stories, Spill emphasizes how
the corporal, temporal, sensorial, and narrative figures of
"idiocy" are reflected throughout Faulkner’s work. These writing
choices underlie some of his most compelling inventions and
certainly contribute to his unmistakable writing style. In the
process, Faulkner’s writing takes on a phenomenological
dimension, simultaneously dismantling and reinventing the
intertwined dynamics of perception and language.
General
Imprint: |
University Press Of Mississippi
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Frédérique Spill
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Translators: |
Arby Gharibian
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Authors: |
Taylor Hagood
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4968-4901-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4968-4901-9 |
Barcode: |
9781496849014 |
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