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03229aam a22005298i 4500 001 62DBFD4CE9C411EAA98CB02F2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200829015346 008 200331t20202020nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020014188 020 $a 1631491709 020 $a 9781631491702 035 $a (OCoLC)1120089363 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d JAS $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3511.A86 $b Z7838 2020 082 00 $a 813/.52 $2 23 100 1 $a Gorra, Michael Edward, $e author. 245 14 $a The saddest words : $b William Faulkner's Civil War / $c Michael Gorra. 246 30 $a William Faulkner's Civil War 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, $c 2020. 300 $a x, 433 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-407) and index. 505 2 $a Part One. Twice-told tales -- Part two. Yoknapatawpha's war -- Part three. Dark house. 520 $a "How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such iconic novels as Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury, creating in Yoknapatawpha County the richest gallery of characters in American fiction, his achievements culminating in the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. But given his works' echo of "Lost Cause" romanticism, his depiction of black characters and black speech, and his rendering of race relations in a largely unreconstructed South, Faulkner demands a sobering reevaluation. Interweaving biography, absorbing literary criticism, and rich travelogue, The Saddest Words recontextualizes Faulkner, revealing a civil war within him, while examining the most plangent cultural issues facing American literature today"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Faulkner, William, $d 1897-1962 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Faulkner, William, $d 1897-1962 $x African Americans. $x African Americans. 650 0 $a African Americans in literature. 650 0 $a Race relations in literature. 651 0 $a Southern States $x In literature. 651 0 $a United States $x Literature and the war. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Literature and the war. 650 0 $a Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place) 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 941 $a 10 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015359.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010022741.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629014512.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518024450.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20210701010746.0 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20210403010240.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210202014643.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103023008.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20201002010647.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200829015424.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=62DBFD4CE9C411EAA98CB02F2FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search