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• Title: Texts, Contexts ... and a Curious Lacuna (Books on William Faulkner) (Book Review)
• Author : The Faulkner Journal
• Release Date : January 22, 2008
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 215 KB

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Review of Charles Hannon, Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2005. xii + 195 pp.; Peter Lurie, Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. xvi + 237 pp.; Owen Robinson, Creating Yoknaptawpha: Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction, New York: Routledge, 2006. x + 252 pp. These are three quite different books, each one representing a distinct approach to Faulkner's work, and each one making an original and significant contribution to Faulkner studies. The Hannon and Lurie books bring to our attention specific historical and cultural materials, primarily from the 1930s. Hannon introduces several disciplines and discourses critical to the decade and by and large new to Faulkner study: a revisionist historiography regarding black/white relations in the South, primarily initiated by W. E. B. Du Bois; a significant shift in legal theory; several labor movements emerging from the challenge of the Great Depression; and the culmination of a new development in ethnographic research. Peter Lurie has a narrower focus: forms of 1930s popular culture, with particular emphasis on detective fiction and film. Even this late in the turn of literary study to the impact of historical and cultural contexts on literature, both books provide new points of entrance into Faulkner's work, and thereby new levels of a fiction that has come to seem boundless in its capacity to register the world outside it.

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