{"product_id":"william-faulkner-9780195310498","title":"William Faulkner","description":"In this newest volume in Oxford's Lives and Legacies series, Carolyn Porter, a leading authority on William Faulkner, offers an insightful account of Faulkner's life and work, with special focus on the breathtaking twelve-year period when he wrote some of the finest novels in American literature. \u003cbr\u003e Porter ranges from Faulkner's childhood in Mississippi to his abortive career as a poet, his sojourn in New Orleans (where he met a sympathetic Sherwood Anderson and wrote his first novel \u003cem\u003eSoldier's Pay\u003c\/em\u003e), his short but strategically important stay in Paris, his rescue by Malcolm Crowley in the late 1940s, and his winning of the Nobel Prize. But the heart of the book illuminates the formal leap in Faulkner's creative vision beginning with \u003cem\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/em\u003e in 1929, which sold poorly but signaled the arrival of a major new literary talent. Indeed, from 1929 through 1942, he would produce, against formidable odds--physical, spiritual, and financial--some of the greatest fictional works of the twentieth century, including \u003cem\u003eAs I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGo Down, Moses\u003c\/em\u003e. Porter shows how, during this remarkably sustained burst of creativity, Faulkner pursued an often feverish process of increasingly ambitious narrative experimentation, coupled with an equally ambitious thematic expansion, as he moved from a close-up study of the white nuclear family, both lower and upper class, to an epic vision of southern, American, and ultimately Western culture. \u003cbr\u003e Porter illuminates the importance of Faulkner's legacy not only for American literature, but also for world literature, and reveals how Faulkner lives on so powerfully, both in the works of his literary heirs and in the lives of readers today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Porter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.80w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195310498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2007 pg. 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarolyn Porter\u003c\/strong\u003e has taught American literature at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1972. The author of \u003cem\u003eSeeing and Being: The Plight of the Participant Observer in Emerson, James, Adams, and Faulkner\u003c\/em\u003e, she has written numerous essays on Henry James, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner, as well as theoretical essays on American Studies and the New Historicism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40377895616627,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":53.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6cc7b97a-6ce9-4f99-a318-cca04fa347ba.jpg?v=1661261693","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/william-faulkner-9780195310498","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}