Book contents
- The New William Faulkner Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New William Faulkner Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Approaches
- Chapter 1 Faulkner and Formalism
- Chapter 2 Faulkner and Modernist Gothic
- Chapter 3 “[T]he critic must leave the Western hemisphere”: Faulkner and World Literature
- Chapter 4 Faulkner and Print Culture
- Chapter 5 Faulkner After Morrison
- Chapter 6 Faulkner’s Acoustics, or Minor Sound
- Part II Cultures
- Part III Interfaces
- Index
Chapter 1 - Faulkner and Formalism
from Part I - Approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2022
Book contents
- The New William Faulkner Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New William Faulkner Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Approaches
- Chapter 1 Faulkner and Formalism
- Chapter 2 Faulkner and Modernist Gothic
- Chapter 3 “[T]he critic must leave the Western hemisphere”: Faulkner and World Literature
- Chapter 4 Faulkner and Print Culture
- Chapter 5 Faulkner After Morrison
- Chapter 6 Faulkner’s Acoustics, or Minor Sound
- Part II Cultures
- Part III Interfaces
- Index
Summary
Recent years have seen a renewal of interest in questions of literary form – in different ways and for a multitude of reasons. First, where “form” is meant to denote those aspects of a text explainable without recourse to extratextual data, formalist approaches square well with the surge of positivist interpretations propelled by the new possibilities afforded by the digital humanities.
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- The New William Faulkner Studies , pp. 19 - 35Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022