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Faulkner's Media Romance (Hardcover)
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Faulkner's Media Romance (Hardcover)
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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 chiches 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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