Book description
This succinct, yet comprehensive account of William Faulkner's literary
career, novels, and key short stories offers an imaginative topography
of his efforts to reckon with his Southern past, to acknowledge its
modernization, and to develop his own modernist method. Drawing on
various critical approaches, it provides a coherent interpretation of
the author's career, emphasizing Faulkner's receptivity to change, not
just his critical resistance to it. Now available in paperback,
William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South
places Faulkner's art in context while concentrating on textual detail,
technique, and thematic preoccupations across his career.
John T. Matthews is Professor of English at Boston University.
Author of The Play of Faulkner's Language (1982) and “The
Sound and the Fury”: Faulkner and the Lost Cause (1991),
Matthews has also written numerous articles on Faulkner. He was the
2006 recipient of Boston University Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.
