Faulkner's Subject A Cosmos No One Owns

Name: Faulkner's Subject A Cosmos No One Owns
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ISBN: 9780521062138

ISBN-10: 0521062136

ISBN-13: 9780521062138

Edition: 2008

Authors: Philip M. Weinstein

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Faulkner's Subject offers a reading of William Faulkner for our time, and does so by rethinking his masterpieces through the lenses of current critical theory. The book attends equally to the power of his work and to the current theoretical issues that would call that power into question. Drawing on poststructuralist, ideological, and gender theory, Weinstein examines the harrowing process of "becoming oneself" at the heart of these novels. This self is always male, and it achieves focus only through strategically mystifying or marginalizing women and blacks. The cosmos he called his own--the textual world he produced, of which he would be "sole owner and proprietor"--merges as a cosmos no…

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations


Map


Introduction



Gender



Race



Subjectivity



Culture: a cosmos no one owns


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index