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1 online resource (181 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Texts; 1. "Worth Any Number of Old Ladies"; 2. Erasing and Inventing Motherhood: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying; 3. Sexuality, Inhumanity, and Violation: Sanctuary and The Hamlet; 4. Bodies and Language: Light in August and The Wild Palms; 5. Fantastic Women and Notmothers: Absalom, Absalom!; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; U; W |
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William Faulkner claimed that it may be necessary for a writer to "rob his mother," should the need arise. "If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies," he remarked. This study of Faulkner's paradoxical attitude toward women, particularly mothers, will stimulate debate and concern, for his novels are shown here to have presented them as both a source and a threat to being and to language."My reading of Faulkner," the author says, "attempts more than an identification of female stereotyp |
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Characters -- Women
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. fast (OCoLC)fst00029774 |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Motherhood in literature.
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Mothers in literature.
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Women in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Motherhood in literature.
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Mothers in literature.
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Women and literature.
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Women in literature.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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American Literature.
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United States.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781604736618 |
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1604736615 |
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9786613455116 |
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6613455113 |
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