Main entry:

Hines, Thomas S., author.

Title & Author:

William Faulkner and the tangible past : the architecture of Yoknapatawpha / Thomas S. Hines.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996]

Description:

xiv, 164 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Series:

[California studies in the history of art ; 38]

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-156) and index.
Introduction: "Time and Its Furniture" -- 1. "The Purlieus of Elegance": The Development of Faulkner's Architectural Consciousness -- 2. "A Just and Holy Cause": The Public Sculpture of Yoknapatawpha -- 3. "Of Secret and Violent Blood": The Indian Mounds of Yoknapatawpha -- 4. "Alien Yet Inviolably Durable": The Folk Architecture of Yoknapatawpha -- 5. "The Aspirations and the Hopes": The Greek Revival of Yoknapatawpha -- 6. "Immolated Sticks and Stones": The Gothic Revival and Its Kindred Modes -- 7. "A Kind of Majesty": The Postbellum Architecture of Victorian Yoknapatawpha -- 8. "Spacious, Suave, Sonorous, and Monastic": The Modernist Architecture of Yoknapatawpha -- 9. Conclusion: "Each in Its Ordered Place" -- Appendix: A Letter to My Son.

Summary:

Includes material on the public sculpture, Indian mounds, folk architecture, Greek revival buildings, Gothic revival buildings, postbellum Victorian architecture, and modernist architecture of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.

Resources:
Table of contents
Available through UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
Contributor biographical information
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520202937 (alk. paper)
9780520202931 (alk. paper)
0520203860 (alk. paper)
9780520203860 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 Knowledge and learning.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 Knowledge Architecture.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 Knowledge History.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
Faulkner, William, (1897-1962) Et l'histoire.
Faulkner, William, (1897-1962) Critique et interprétation.
Faulkner, William, (1897-1962) Cadre de l'oeuvre.
Faulkner, William, (1897-1962) Et l'architecture.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1662 Knowledge History.
Art and literature Mississippi History 20th century.
Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
Architecture in literature.
Art et littérature Mississippi Histoire 20e siècle.
Yoknapatawpha County (Lieu imaginaire)
Architecture dans la littérature.
Learning and scholarship.
Architecture.
History.
Art and literature.
Literature.
Bouwkunst.
Romans.
Amerikaans.
Art et littérature États-Unis Mississippi (États-Unis)
Architecture Dans la littérature.
Architecture 1900-1945 États-Unis.
Architecture, American Mississippi.
Mississippi In literature.
Mississippi Dans la littérature.
Mississippi.
Yoknapatawpha County (lieu imaginaire)
Mississippi (États-Unis) Dans la littérature.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

California studies in the history of art ; 38]

Holdings:

Location: Library main 134896
Call No.: PS3511.A86.Z7876 (ID:97-B587)
Status: Available