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Hunting the Sun

Faulkner’s Appropriations of Balzac’s Writings

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

upends all previous Faulkner biography, scholarship, and criticism by tracing to Honoré de Balzac virtually everything in William Faulkner’s œuvre. Faulkner’s work departs, often confusingly, from the traditional Romantic focus of novels. The reason for the confusion is that Faulkner was rewriting Balzac’s itself a prose revision of Dante’s in order to create his own comedy. More specifically, Faulkner abandons the metaphysical basis of the earlier works and replaces them with a psychosexual one; for example, Balzac’s «The Succubus» becomes Faulkner’s «Carcassonne», which the American renders an erotic fantasy. Virtually all of Faulkner’s major works, and many of the lesser ones, have direct sources in Balzac’s work.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4331-1003-0 / 978-1433110030 / 9781433110030

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2010

Seiten: 277

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Merrill Horton

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