Murphet Julian (Director Of The Centre For Modernism Studies Director Of The Centre For Modernism Studies University Of New South Wales Australia)
Murphet Julian (Director Of The Centre For Modernism Studies Director Of The Centre For Modernism Studies University Of New South Wales Australia) - Faulkner's Media Romance - Hardcover
Murphet Julian (Director Of The Centre For Modernism Studies Director Of The Centre For Modernism Studies University Of New South Wales Australia) - Faulkner's Media Romance - Hardcover
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Description: This book 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 chich's and his extraordinarily knowledgeable interest in the most up - to - date media institutions and forms. Rather than see Faulkner as a divided author who worked for money in the magazines and studios while producing his serious fiction in despite of their symbolic economies this study demonstrates how profoundly his mature art was shot through with the figures and dynamics of the materials he publicly repudiated. The result is a richer and more nuanced understanding of the dialectics of his art.
Title: Faulkner's Media Romance
Author(s): Murphet Julian (Director Of The Centre For Modernism Studies Director Of The Centre For Modernism Studies University Of New South Wales Australia)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190664244
Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Date: 8/10/2017
Category: Cultural Studies
Description: This book 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 chich's and his extraordinarily knowledgeable interest in the most up - to - date media institutions and forms. Rather than see Faulkner as a divided author who worked for money in the magazines and studios while producing his serious fiction in despite of their symbolic economies this study demonstrates how profoundly his mature art was shot through with the figures and dynamics of the materials he publicly repudiated. The result is a richer and more nuanced understanding of the dialectics of his art.
Title: Faulkner's Media Romance
Author(s): Murphet Julian (Director Of The Centre For Modernism Studies Director Of The Centre For Modernism Studies University Of New South Wales Australia)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190664244
Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Date: 8/10/2017
Category: Cultural Studies
