did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780415975360

Frontier/Grotesque in the Novels of William Faulkner

by ;
  • ISBN13:

    9780415975360

  • ISBN10:

    0415975360

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2020-02-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
  • Write a Review Icon Write a Review
List Price: $150.00 Save up to $55.50
  • Rent Book $94.50
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

This book locates Faulkner's historical vision in his use of "frontier/grotesque," a cultural rhetoric associated with colonization, which appears in the tension between the regional mythology of plantation and the national mythology of frontier. The book identifiesAbsalom, Absalom!,The Hamlet, andGo Down, Mosesas a "mythic trilogy," novels less concerned with portraying the harsh realities of the Depression than the author's vision of a South caught in the tension between the regional mythology of plantation and the national mythology of frontier. Thomas Sutpen is a revolutionary frontiersman seeking to overturn the plantation system; Flem Snopes is a reactionary using the tactics of the pioneer to secure a place atop the system; and Ike McCaslin is a remorseful heir who wants to transcend the system, but actually takes only temporary refuge from mastery by nostalgically play-acting the frontiersman. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the book is its definition of the grotesqueas a function of rhetoric, which allows some of the more contentious theories of the grotesque to come together under one critical rubric. The book then shows how colonial power uses the rhetoric of the grotesque to convert the wilderness to settlement along frontiers.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program