Absalom, Absalom!: The Questioning of Fictions

by Robert Dale Parker

Book Overview

This book brings a wide range of contemporary critical methods to bear on Faulkner's classic, including structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and cultural and social historicism. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805781161
• ISBN13: 9780805781168
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Twayne Publishers
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

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Enlarged and reinforced my appreciation of "Absalom, Absalom!". However, it also raised some questions. Why is Sutpen so abhorred at the taint of black blood in his line? Presumably all he wants is the big plantation, money, power, wealth. And Faulkner indicates he was raised in West Virginia with no prejudice against blacks, in a slaveless world. He of all people should stand outside this. Yet we first see him with blacks as his property.