The Ink of Melancholy : Faulkner's Novels from The Sound and the Fury to Light in August.

Ink of Melancholy re-examines and re-evaluates William Faulkner's work from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, one of his most creative periods. Rather than approach Faulkner's fiction through a prefabricated grid, AndrE Bleikasten concentrates on the texts themselves'on the motivatio...

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Main Author: Bleikasten, André
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; EDITIONS CITED AND ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction: Masks and Mirrors; One. The Struggle with the Angel; I. The Quest for Eurydice; II. The Agony of Dispossession; III. The Young Man, Desire, and Death; IV. Of Time and the Unreal; V. The Poison of Resentment; VI. An Easter without Resurrection?; Two. Requiem for a Mother; VII. A Tour de Force
  • VIII. A Dying Life, a Living Death; IX. Turns of Madness; X. The Real and Its Representations; Three. The Blackness of Darkness; XI. The Most Horrific Tale
  • XII. Terror and Transgression.
  • XIII. The Madness of BodiesXIV. The Infernal Nursery; Four. Versions of the Sun; XV. In Praise of Helen; XVI. The Cracked Urns; XVII. The Perils of Purity; XVIII. The Fathers; XIX. Circles; Epilogue: Under the Sign of Saturn; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.