The saddest words : William Faulkner's Civil War / Michael Gorra.
The saddest words : William Faulkner's Civil War / Michael Gorra.
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New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2020]
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G 2020/4745
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English
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Physical content
x, 433 pages : illustration, maps ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
A park bench in Paris -- Gettysburg, as not yet two -- Part One: Twice-told tales -- Old man falls -- The family and the town -- Postage stamps -- Inventing Yoknapatawpha -- Part Two: Yoknapatawpha's War -- The precipice -- The real war -- Freedom -- The Stillness -- Part Three: Dark house -- The sh...
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Publisher
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2020]
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"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 th...
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The saddest words : William Faulkner's Civil War / Michael Gorra.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-407) and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/4745
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74VKaJJzqbEZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJJzqbEZ
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ISBN
1631491709
9781631491702
DDC
813.52
MMS ID
991024369513802626
