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1 online resource (214 pages) |
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Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha |
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Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
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| Contents |
Contents; Introduction; Note on the Conference; Unhistoricizing Faulkner; The Artful and Crafty Ones of the French Quarter: Male Homosexuality and Faulkner's Early Prose Writings; "And You Too, Sister, Sister?": Lesbian Sexuality, Absalom, Absalom!, and the Reconstruction of the Southern Family; Faulkner, Marcuse, and Erotic Power; Faulkner's Sexualized City: Modernism, Commerce, and the (Textual) Body; "Must Have Been Love": Sexualities' Attachments in Faulkner; All Mixed Up: Female Sexuality and Race in The Sound and the Fury; Faulkner's Black Sexuality; Popeye's Impersonal Temple |
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Temple Drake's Rape and the Myth of the Willing VictimContributors; Index |
| Summary |
William Faulkner grew up and began his writing career during a time of great cultural upheaval, especially in the realm of sexuality, where every normative notion of identity and relationship was being re-examined. Not only does Faulkner explore multiple versions of sexuality throughout his work, but he also studies the sexual dimension of various social, economic, and aesthetic concerns. In Faulkner's Sexualities, contributors query Faulkner's life and fiction in terms of sexual identity, sexual politics, and the ways in which such concerns affect his aesthetics. Given the frequent play with |
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Print version record |
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Aesthetics -- Congresses
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Sexual behavior -- Congresses
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 fast |
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Gender identity in literature -- Congresses
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Sex (Psychology) in literature -- Congresses
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Sex in literature -- Congresses
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Aesthetics
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Gender identity in literature
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Sex
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Sex in literature
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Sex (Psychology) in literature
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Abadie, Ann J
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| ISBN |
9781604735611 |
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1604735619 |
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