Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner's Novels from the Sound and the Fury to Light in August

By André Bleikasten

Book Overview

Ink of Melancholy re-examines and re-evaluates William Faulkner's work from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, one of his most creative periods. Rather than approach Faulkner's fiction through a prefabricated grid, Andr? Bleikasten concentrates on the texts themselves--on the motivations and circumstances of their composition, on the rich array of their themes, structures, textures, points of emphasis and repetition, as well as their rifts and gaps--while drawing on the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology. Brilliant in its thought and argument, Ink of Melancholy is one of the most insightful and stimulating studies of Faulkner's work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253022991
• ISBN13: 9780253022998
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher