Overview

Ink of Melancholy re-examines and re-evaluates William Faulkner's work from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, one of his most creative periods. Rather than approach Faulkner's fiction through a prefabricated grid, Andre Bleikasten concentrates on the texts themselves-on the motivations and circumstances of their composition, on the rich array of their themes, structures, textures, points of emphasis and repetition, as well as their rifts and gaps-while drawing on the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology. Brilliant in its thought and argument, Ink of Melancholy is one of the most insightful and stimulating studies of Faulkner's work.

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Author:   André Bleikasten
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9780253022998

ISBN 10:   0253022991
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   31 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgements Editions Cited and Abbreviated Introduction:Masks and Mirrors Part 1: The Struggle with the Angel 1. The Quest for Eurydice 2. The Agony of Dispossession 3. The Young Man, Desire, and Death 4. Of Time and the Unreal 5. The Poison of Resentment 6. An Easter without Resurrection? Part 2: Requiem for a Mother 7. A ""Tour de Force"" 8. A Dying Life, A Living Death 9. Turns of Madness 10. The Real and Its Representations Part 3: The Blackness of Darkness 11. ""The Most Horrific Tale"" 12. Terror and Transgression 13. The Madness of Bodies 14. The Infernal Nursery Part 4: Versions of the Sun 15. In Praise of Helen 16. The Cracked Urns 17. The Perils of Purity 18. The Fathers 19 Circles Epilogue: Under the Sign of Saturn Notes Index"

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Faulkner has found a critic worthy of him. -Times Literary Supplement Unsurpassed as an act of sustained engagement with Faulkner's language. -New York Review of Books

Faulkner has found a critic worthy of him. * Times Literary Supplement * Unsurpassed as an act of sustained engagement with Faulkner's language. * New York Review of Books * Faulkner has found a critic worthy of him. * Times Literary Supplement * Unsurpassed as an act of sustained engagement with Faulkner's language. * New York Review of Books *

Author Information

André Bleikasten (1933-2009) was Professor of American Literature at the University of Strasbourg, France, and a prominent Faulkner scholar. He is the author of William Faulkner: A Life through Novels. He is also known for his studies of Philip Roth, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor.

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