The Spider in the Cup: Yoknapatawpha County's Fall into the Unknowable (Lebaron Russell Briggs Prize Honors Essays in English Ser., Vol. 1977)

Fried, Barbara H.

ISBN 10: 0674832051 / ISBN 13: 9780674832053

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1978

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The LeBaron Russell Briggs Prize Honors Essays In English, 1977, softcover booklet is a clean tight unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spider in the Cup: Yoknapatawpha County's Fall into the Unknowable (Lebaron Russell Briggs Prize Honors Essays in English Ser., Vol. 1977)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674832051
• ISBN 13: 9780674832053
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Softcover Edition, Printing Not Listed
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Softcover Wraps
• Seller catalogs:
  • Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemingway Studies

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Synopsis

Barbara Fried presents here a refined feminist reading of the sharply divergent attitudes toward knowledge attributed to men and women in Faulkner’s fiction. Against a backdrop of the first Fall, the author traces the process by which Faulkner’s men embrace a state of non-being and his women a life of greater knowledge in their twentieth-century fall into the unknowable. Drawing on the main body of Faulkner’s work with close attention to The Sound and the Fury, this richly conceived and gracefully written study animates in a new way the work of one of America’s foremost writers.

About the Author

Barbara H. Fried is Professor of Law at Stanford University Law School.