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  title info:
    title: William Faulkner and the faces of modernity
  name:
    name part: Watson, Jay
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: William Faulkner has enjoyed a secure reputation as American modernism's foremost fiction writer, and as a landmark figure in international literary modernism, for well over half a century. Less secure, however, has been any scholarly consensus about what those modernist credentials actually entail. Over recent decades, there have been lively debates in modernist studies over the who, what, where, when and how of the surprisingly elusive phenomena of modernism and modernity. This book broadens and deepens an understanding of Faulkner's oeuvre by following some of the guiding questions and insights of new modernism studies scholarship into understudied aspects of Faulkner's literary modernism and his cultural modernity. William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity explores Faulkner's rural Mississippians as modernizing subjects in their own right rather than mere objects of modernization, traces the new speed gradients, media formations and intensifications of sensory and affective experience that the twentieth century brought to the cities and countryside of the South, maps the fault lines in whiteness as a racial modernity under construction and contestation during the Jim Crow period, resituates Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County within the transnational counter-modernities of the Black Atlantic and follows the author's imaginative engagement with modern biopolitics through his late work A Fable, a novel Faulkner hoped to make his 'magnum o.' By returning to the utterly uncontroversial fact of Faulkner's modernism with a critical sensibility sharpened by new modernism studies, William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity aims to spark further reappraisal of a distinguished and quite dazzling body of fiction. Perhaps even make it new.
  table of contents: Introduction: modernization, modernity, modernism, and William Faulkner -- Part One. Rural modernization -- Rus in Urbe: Faulkner's rural modernizers -- The philosophy of furniture, or light in August and the material unconscious of Mississippi modernity -- Part Two. Technology and media -- Faulkner on speed -- The unsynchable William Faulkner: Faulknerian voice and early sound film -- Part Three. Racial modernities -- Genealogies of white deviance: eugenic modernity and William Faulkner, 1926-1932 -- Salvery, modernity and the turn toward death in the black Atlantic world of Yokapatawpha County -- Part Four. Biopolitical modernity -- Faulkner's biopolitical fable of modernity.
  note: Jay Watson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Faulkner, William
      name part: 1897-1962
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Civilization, Modern, in literature
  classification: PS3511.A86 Z98537 2019
  classification: 813/.52
  identifier: 9780198849742
  identifier: 0198849745
  identifier: 2019941492
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190426
    record change date: 20260710145405.6
    record identifier: in00004115547