Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha (Southern Literary Studies) by Daniel Hoffman - 1989-12-01

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. Softcover. Fine. First simultaneous paperback edition. Fine. Study focusing on *The Unvanquished*, *The Hamlet* and *Go Down, Moses*.

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Paperback / softback. New. Daniel Hoffman's bold new readings reveal unsuspected dimensions in Faulkner's The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses. He shows how these works, often regarded as disunified collections of short stories and novellas, are coherent and successful experiments in novelistic form. These last three novels of Faulkner's great period are striated with folklore and structured with myths. They teem with folk motifs of comic exaggeration, deception, horse-trading, tall-tale humor. Hitherto, critics unversed in folklore have been able to treat these aspects only in generalities. Here, drawing on fieldwork from the Mississippi Writers Project in the 1930s, the author of Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe and the influential Form and Fable in America Fiction demonstrates in detail Faulkner's ironical, subversive, and transformative appropriations of folklore plots, characters, comedy, language, and the style of oral tale-telling, setting these in the full complexity… Read More