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Author:   Frédérique Spill ,  Arby Gharibian ,  Taylor Hagood
Publisher:   University Press of Mississippi
Imprint:   University Press of Mississippi
Edition:   Hardback ed.
ISBN:  

9781496849007

ISBN 10:   1496849000
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   15 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Foreword by Taylor Hagood Introduction to the Translated Edition Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Idiosyncrasies of an Idiocy: Disarticulation of Bodies, Disconnecting of Narratives Chapter 1. Is the Idiot a Monster? Chapter 2. The Flabby Flesh and Flaccid Bodies of Idiots Chapter 3. Inarticulate Voice and Story Chapter 4. Faulknerian Idiotisms: The Mechanisms of Repetition Chapter 5. States of a World in Disintegration Part II: To the Roots of the World: Idiocy and Its Objects Chapter 6. Idiots Have Blue Eyes Chapter 7. The Idiot Gaze and Its Representations Chapter 8. Idiocy’s Fetish Objects: Substitutive Fixations and Logic Chapter 9. The Exacerbation of Sensation Chapter 10. Idiocy, Alcohol, and Other Illicit Substances: ""A Derangement of All the Senses"" Part III: ""Trying to Say"" Chapter 11. The Fury of Origins, the Ringing of Sound Chapter 12. The Aesthetics of Idiocy: Writing and Aphasia Chapter 13. The Disorders of Predication and the Order of a World: The Idiot Idiom Chapter 14. Trying to Read Faulkner Conclusion: Fiction of Origin and the Origin of Fiction Notes Bibliography Index"

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With great authority and lucidity, Inventing Benjy shows brilliantly how Faulkner adopted the conceit of 'idiocy' for his innovative, contrarian, and revolutionary modernist project.--John T. Matthews, editor of William Faulkner in Context

Author Information

"Frédérique Spill is professor of American literature at University of Picardy–Jules Verne in Amiens, France. She contributed to Critical Insights: ""The Sound and the Fury"" and Faulkner at Fifty: Tutors and Tyros. She coedited The Wagon Moves: New Essays on ""As I Lay Dying"" as well as the spring 2018 issue of the Faulkner Journal. She is part of the editorial board of the Faulkner Journal. She is author of The Radiance of Small Things in Ron Rash’s Writing. She also coedited, with Randall Wilhelm, a special issue of the Journal of the Short Stories in English devoted to Ron Rash’s short fiction. She has also published articles in French and in English on varied contemporary American authors."

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