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Author Wainwright, Michael.

Title Faulkner's ethics : an intense struggle / Michael Wainwright
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
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Contents Introduction : the innermost good -- Responsibility (I) : "barn burning" -- Benevolence (I) : Light in August -- Duty (I) : Pylon -- Universalism : Absalom, Absalom! -- Duty (II) : The Unvanquished -- Benevolence (II) : Intruder in the Dust -- Responsibility (II) : A Fable -- Conclusion : the Levine shadow
Summary "'Early Faulkner criticism often followed the trajectory of Faulkner's life, sometimes simply assuming that life had a moral compass. Later schools, for example historical materialism, sought the 'substratum' of material reality that underpinned the narrative, again only assuming that issues, such as the nature and economics of labor, had moral implications. Psychology, anthropology, mythology--all have had their day, often very useful days, often touching on ethical issues--but what has been lacking is ethics itself. Michael Wainwright's Faulkner's Ethics: An Intense Struggle will end that neglect and, I believe, spur a new interest in moral struggle, moral direction as it can be found in Faulkner's life and literature."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 9, 2021)
Subject Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Ethics
SUBJECT Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 fast
Subject Ethics in literature.
Ethics in literature
Ethics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030688721
3030688720