The ink of melancholy : Faulkner's novels from The sound and the fury to Light in August

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The ink of melancholy : Faulkner's novels from The sound and the fury to Light in August

André Bleikasten

Indiana University Press, 2017, c1990

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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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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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