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Faulkner's Marginal Couple - Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities (Paperback)
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Faulkner's Marginal Couple - Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities (Paperback)
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Is William Faulkner's fiction built on a fundamental dichotomy of
outcast individual versus the healthy agrarian community? The New
Critics of the 1930s advanced this view, and it has shaped much
Faulkner criticism. However, in Faulkner's Marginal Couple, John
Duvall posits the existence of another possibility, alternative
communities formed by "deviant" couples. These couples, who violate
"normal" gender roles and behaviors, challenge the either/or view
of Faulkner's world. The study treats in detail the novels Light in
August, The Wild Palms, Sanctuary, Pylon, and Absalom, Absalom!, as
well as several of Faulkner's short stories. In discussing each
work, Duvall challenges the traditional view that Faulkner created
active men who follow a code of honor and passive women who are
close to nature. Instead, he charts the many instances of men who
are nurturing and passive and women who are strong and sexually
active. These alternative couples undermine a common view of
Faulkner as an upholder of Southern patriarchal values, thus
countering the argument that Faulkner's fiction is essentially
misogynist. This new approach, drawing on semiotics, feminism, and
Marxism, makes Faulkner more accessible to readers interested in
ideological analysis. It also stresses the intertextual connections
between Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha and non-Yoknapatawpha fiction.
Perhaps most importantly, it uncovers what the New Criticism
concealed, namely, that Faulkner's fiction traces the full
androgynous spectrum of the human condition.
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