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Faulkner’s Fashion: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing

Autor Professor Christopher Rieger
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 dec 2023
The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkner's novels and short stories.Clothing is one of the most important and pervasive material items throughout William Faulkner's fiction. Faulkner's Fashion analyzes the writer's use of clothing from a variety of critical approaches, considering how clothing and dress intersect with race, class, and gender across Faulkner's works. It also considers clothes as material objects, using Thing Theory and Object Oriented Ontology to illuminate the role clothing plays as an object in conjunction with its multiple layers of symbolic meaning to both the wearer and the observer. Faulkner's Fashion reveals how much attention Faulkner pays to garments and fashion in his own life and in his fiction, arguing that dress is often a means of characterization for Faulkner, while it also connects his narrative representations of gender, sexuality, class, poverty, race, and modernity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9798765103944
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: 15-20 B&W photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Offers an analysis of all of Faulkner's major works (novels and short stories) from a variety of critical perspectives, providing new context for his best-known characters and themes

Notă biografică

Christopher Rieger is former Professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, USA, and the previous Director of the Center for Faulkner Studies. He is the author of Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature (2009) and the co-editor of six essay collections, including Faulkner and Garcia Marquez (2020), Faulkner and Hemingway (2018), and Faulkner and Morrison (2013). Hecurrently works for the U.S. Department of State.

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction- Literary Clothing- Nonhumans and Things- Actor-Network Theory- Clothes as Things- King Cotton- Fashion in Faulkner's Time- Faulkner's Fashion- Faulkner's Fictional FashionsChapter 1: Clothing and Gender- Soldiers' Pay- Mosquitoes- The Sound and the Fury- Sanctuary- The Unvanquished- If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem- The Hamlet- The Town and The MansionChapter 2: Clothing and Race- The Sound and the Fury- "That Evening Sun"- Light in August- Absalom, Absalom!- Go Down, Moses- Intruder in the DustChapter 3: Clothing and Class- Flags in the Dust- The First World War Stories- Pylon- "Barn Burning"- The Hamlet- The Town and The MansionWorks CitedIndex

Recenzii

Faulkner's Fashion is a deft and long overdue study of sartorial threads in Faulkner (the body of work) and on Faulkner (the body of the author). Through astute and theoretically informed analysis, Rieger attends to Faulkner's complex rendering of clothing and the material and symbolic forms it assumes in literature and life.
Faulkner's Fashion provides a rich study of the importance of clothing across the breadth of the author's fiction. Rieger employs an impressive array of theoretical and analytical perspectives to reveal the active role clothing plays in Faulkner's narratives, innovatively demonstrating how Faulkner's characters struggle to communicate their identities in terms of gender, race, and class through fashion.
Faulkner's Fashion is highly original, with eye-opening insights. Thought-provoking and critically engaged, Rieger masterfully close reads gender, race, and class in terms of the much-neglected role of clothing in Faulkner's novels and short stories. A provocative and substantial contribution to the ever-growing body of scholarship on Faulkner.