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Combining explications of William Faulkner’s novels and short stories with thematic analysis, Hyatt H. Waggoner works from the close reading of a specific work outward to its most general meanings and relationships. By this method he has made a significant contribution to the understanding of Faulkner’s career and artistic achievement.

Waggoner examines both better and lesser-known works, which yield valuable insights into Faulkner’s development when treated in relation to his whole body of work. The author also addresses the major themes which emerge from critical analyses of individual works: Faulkner’s uneasy relationship with his Christian background and his unchanging conception of the role of the artist related to his changing practice as a writer. Waggoner concludes that Faulkner’s artistic career reflects a creatively productive, but tortured and ambiguous, relationship with his community.

Hyatt H. Waggoner, professor of American literature at Brown University, is the author of The Heel of Elohim: Science and Values in Modern American Poetry (1950); Hawthorne: A Critical Study, which was selected in 1955 for the annual Explicator Prize; and numerous articles which show his concern with the most significant trends in American literature.

Publication Date

1959

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Place of Publication

Lexington, KY

ISBN

9780813155319

eISBN

9780813164908

Keywords

William Faulkner

Disciplines

Literature in English, North America

William Faulkner: From Jefferson to the World
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