Faulkner's media romance / Julian Murphet.
2017
PS3511.A86 Z9188 2017
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Title
Faulkner's media romance / Julian Murphet.
Author
Murphet, Julian, author.
ISBN
9780190664275 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
PS3511.A86 Z9188 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
813.52
Summary
This text treats William Faulkner's major fiction - from 'Flags in the Dust' through to 'Absalom, Absalom!' - to a searching reappraisal under the spotlight of a media-historical inquiry. It proposes that Faulkner's inveterate attraction to the paradigms of romance was disciplined and masked by the recurrent use of metaphorical figures borrowed from the new media ecology. Faulkner dressed up his romance materials in the technological garb of radio, gramophony, photography, and cinema, along with the transportational networks of road and air that were being installed in the 1920s. His modernism emerges from a fraght but productive interplay between his anachronistic predilection for chivalric chiches and his extraordinarily knowledgeable interest in the most up-to-date media institutions and forms.
Note
This text treats William Faulkner's major fiction - from 'Flags in the Dust' through to 'Absalom, Absalom!' - to a searching reappraisal under the spotlight of a media-historical inquiry. It proposes that Faulkner's inveterate attraction to the paradigms of romance was disciplined and masked by the recurrent use of metaphorical figures borrowed from the new media ecology. Faulkner dressed up his romance materials in the technological garb of radio, gramophony, photography, and cinema, along with the transportational networks of road and air that were being installed in the 1920s. His modernism emerges from a fraght but productive interplay between his anachronistic predilection for chivalric chiches and his extraordinarily knowledgeable interest in the most up-to-date media institutions and forms.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 19, 2017).
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Print version: 9780190664244
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