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Light in August
In 'Light in August,' William Faulkner intricately weaves a narrative that explores themes of identity, race, and the search for belonging in the post-Civil War American South. With his characteristic stream-of-consciousness style, Faulkner presents a tapestry of interrelated characters, including the enigmatic Lena Grove and the tragic Joe Christmas, set against the backdrop of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The novel's rich symbolism and nonlinear structure challenge conventional narrative forms, reflecting the tumultuous social dynamics of its time and the fractured nature of human experience. William Faulkner, a towering figure in modernist literature, was deeply influenced by the cultural and historical complexities of his Southern upbringing. Growing up in Mississippi, Faulkner's experiences with racial tensions and the remnants of Southern aristocracy shaped his worldview and literary themes. His deep understanding of human psychology and social issues informed his portrayal of morally ambiguous characters, making 'Light in August' a profound exploration of the human condition. This novel is essential for readers seeking to understand the nuances of American literature and its engagement with critical social issues. Faulkner's eloquent prose and masterful character development offer a compelling lens through which to examine the legacy of the South, making 'Light in August' not just a book, but an experience that resonates with contemporary readers.
The Elemental Dialectic of Light and Darkness
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2013-04-17
The dialectic of light and darkness studied in this collection of essays reveals itself as a primal factor of life as well as the essential element of the specifically human world. From its borderline position between physis and psyche, natural growth and techne, bios and ethos, it functions as the essential factor in all the sectors of life at large. We see its crucial role in all sectors of life while, prompted by man's creative imagination, it enhances and spurs his vital as well as societal and spiritual life. This rare collection contains studies by Thomas Ryba, Krystina Górniak-Kocikowska, Lois Oppenheim, Sydney Feshback, Eldon van Lieve, Sitansu Ray, Theodore Litman, Peter Morgan, Colette Michael, Christopher Lalonde, L. Findlay, Christopher Eykman, Beverly Schlack Randles, Jorge García-Gómez, William Haney, Sherilyn Abdoo, David Brottman, Alan Pratt, Hans Rudnick, George Scheper, Freema Gottlieb, Marlies Kronegger.
Faulkner and Slavery
Author: Jay Watson
language: en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date: 2021-05-28
Contributions by Tim Armstrong, Edward A. Chappell, W. Ralph Eubanks, Amy A. Foley, Michael Gorra, Sherita L. Johnson, Andrew B. Leiter, John T. Matthews, Julie Beth Napolin, Erin Penner, Stephanie Rountree, Julia Stern, Jay Watson, and Randall Wilhelm In 1930, the same year he moved into Rowan Oak, a slave-built former plantation home in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, William Faulkner published his first work of fiction that gave serious attention to the experience and perspective of an enslaved individual. For the next two decades, Faulkner repeatedly returned to the theme of slavery and to the figures of enslaved people in his fiction, probing the racial, economic, and political contours of his region, nation, and hemisphere in work such as The Sound and the Fury; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!; and Go Down, Moses. Faulkner and Slavery is the first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history of one of the twentieth century’s most incisive authors on US slavery and the long ordeal of race in the Americas. Contributors to the volume examine the constitutive links among slavery, capitalism, and modernity across Faulkner’s oeuvre. They study how the history of slavery at the University of Mississippi informs writings like Absalom, Absalom! and trace how slavery’s topologies of the rectilinear grid or square run up against the more reparative geography of the oval in Faulkner’s narratives. Contributors explore how the legacies of slavery literally sound and resound across centuries of history, and across multiple novels and stories in Faulkner’s fictional county of Yoknapatawpha, and they reveal how the author’s remodeling work on his own residence brought him into an uncomfortable engagement with the spatial and architectural legacies of chattel slavery in north Mississippi. Faulkner and Slavery offers a timely intervention not only in the critical study of the writer’s work but in ongoing national and global conversations about the afterlives of slavery and the necessary work of antiracism.