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Faulkner And Love (Hardcover)

By: Judith Sensibar (Author)

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"FAULKNER IN LOVE is a fascinating, rich and important book, situating Faulkner within a community of women and thus giving even greater significance to all the important feminist work done on Faulkner."

"FAULKNER IN LOVE is an indispensable addition to Faulkner scholarship. After reading this scrupulously documented, brilliantly insightful, even if occasionally repetitious account of one of America's greatest novelists, one can easily see why these three essential women who touched him in what he created out of history, myth, memory, and reality should be given more than attention. They should be celebrated."

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This book is about the making of the writer William Faulkner. It is the first to inquire into the three most important women in his life--his black and white mothers, Caroline Barr and Maud Falkner, and the childhood friend who became his wife, Estelle Oldham. In this new exploration of Faulkner's creative process, Judith L. Sensibar discovers that these women's relationships with Faulkner were not simply close; they gave life to his imagination. Sensibar brings to the foreground--as Faulkner did--this "female world," an approach unprecedented in Faulkner biography.

Through extensive research in untapped biographical sources--archival materials and interviews with these women's families and other members of the communities in which they lived--Sensibar transcends existing scholarship and reconnects Faulkner's biography to his work. She demonstrates how the themes of race, tormented love, and addiction that permeated his fiction had their origins in his three defining relationships with women. Sensibar alters and enriches our understanding not only of Faulkner, his art, and the complex world of the American South that came to life in his brilliant fiction but also of darknesses, fears, and unspokens that Faulkner unveiled in the American psyche.

This book is about the making of the writer William Faulkner. It is the first to inquire into the three most important women in his life--his black and white mothers, Caroline Barr and Maud Falkner, and the childhood friend who became his wife, Estelle Oldham. In this new exploration of Faulkner's creative process, Judith L. Sensibar discovers that these women's relationships with Faulkner were not simply close; they gave life to his imagination. Sensibar brings to the foreground--as Faulkner did--this "female world," an approach unprecedented in Faulkner biography. Through extensive research in untapped biographical sources--archival materials and interviews with these women's families and other members of the communities in which they lived--Sensibar transcends existing scholarship and reconnects Faulkner's biography to his work. She demonstrates how the themes of race, tormented love, and addiction that permeated his fiction had their origins in his three defining relationships with women. Sensibar alters and enriches our understanding not only of Faulkner, his art, and the complex world of the American South that came to life in his brilliant fiction but also of darknesses, fears, and unspokens that Faulkner unveiled in the American psyche.

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