Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha (Southern Literary Studies) - Hardcover

Hoffman, Daniel

9780807115626: Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha (Southern Literary Studies)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807115622 ISBN 13: 9780807115626

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1989

Bound in the publisher's original cloth, spine stamped in black. Some shelf wear to dust jacket at the extremities. The words "First Edition" and date in ink on ffep.

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From the Back Cover:

in "Form and Fable in American Fiction," Daniel Hoffman demonstrated the relationship between the literary imagination in America and our myths, fables, and folktales. Reasserting and deepening the thesis of that study in "Faulkner's Country Matters," Hoffman provides rich readings of "The Unvanquished," "The Hamlet," and "Go Down, Moses," and at the same time offers a moving, often profound meditation on the American sense of history as myth and myth as history. Appearing at a moment when Faulker studies are dominated by a rage for theorizing about literature, Hoffman's new book returns us to the actual source of the author's imagination.

About the Author:

Daniel Hoffman served as Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress, the appointment now called Poet Laureate of the United States, in 1973--74, and as Poet in Residence of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, l988--99, administering the American Poets' Corner. His eight books of shorter poems -- including the most recent, Darkening Water -- and his earlier selected poetry collection, Hang-Gliding from Helicon, are augmented by two book-length poems: Brotherly Love, a meditation of William Penn's treaty with the Indians and a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and his novel in verse, Middens of the Tribe. He is the author of eight books of nonfiction, including Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe -- also a finalist for the National Book Award -- and Zone of the Interior: A Memoir, 1942--1947. Now Felix E. Schelling Professor of English Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, he lives with his wife in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and Harborside, Maine.

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