Faulkner's fictive architecture : the meaning of place in the Yoknapatawpha novels / by William T. Ruzicka.

Main entry:

Ruzicka, William T., 1944-

Title & Author:

Faulkner's fictive architecture : the meaning of place in the Yoknapatawpha novels / by William T. Ruzicka.

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Description:

viii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in modern literature ; no. 67

Notes:
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Dallas, 1984.
Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Dallas, 1984.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-153) and index.
Introduction: Fictive architecture -- Background: The classical genius loci of southern architecture -- The unvanquished: "The aura of father's dream" -- Sartoris: "Time and its furniture" -- Absalom, Absalom!: "Something like a wing of Versailles" -- Jefferson: The urban design of a fictive small town -- Requiem for a nun: "Symbol of the aspirations and the hopes" -- The Snopes trilogy -- The hamlet: "All this ... just to eat and sleep in" -- The town: "Miniature of men's passions and hopes" -- The mansion: "Respectability's virgin Matterhorn" -- Go down, Moses -- "The concrete indication of his own vanity's boundless conceiving" -- "The woods ... his mistress and his wife" -- Fictive cosmography -- Appendix: The tradition of southern classicism.

ISBN:

0835717887
9780835717885

Subject:

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 Settings.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 Cadre de l'œuvre.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
Faulkner, William 1897-1962
Faulkner, William.
Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
City and town life in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
Local color in literature.
Setting (Literature)
Yoknapatawpha County (Lieu imaginaire)
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Littérature régionale.
Couleur locale dans la littérature.
Espace et temps (Littérature)
Literature.
Roman
Cities and towns in literature
Southern States in literature.
Mississippi In literature.
Mississippi Dans la littérature.
Mississippi.
Yoknapatawpha County
11030 fiction in English p1030 American writers p1030 Faulkner, William 60030 critical studies
Faulkner William 1897-1962 Criticism and interpretation
Faulkner, William 1897-1962 Settings

Form/genre:

Theses.

Added entries:

Studies in modern literature ; no. 67.

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Location: Library main 35765
Call No.: ID:88-B7011
Status: Available

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