{"product_id":"faulkners-marginal-couple-invisible-outlaw-and-unspeakable-communities-paperback","title":"Faulkner's Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn N. Duvall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Is William Faulkner's fiction built on a fundamental dichotomy of outcast individual versus the healthy agrarian community? The New Critics of the 1930s advanced this view, and it has shaped much Faulkner criticism. However, in \u003ci\u003eFaulkner's Marginal Couple\u003c\/i\u003e, John Duvall posits the existence of another possibility, alternative communities formed by \"deviant\" couples. These couples, who violate \"normal\" gender roles and behaviors, challenge the either\/or view of Faulkner's world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The study treats in detail the novels \u003ci\u003eLight in August\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Palms\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSanctuary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePylon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as several of Faulkner's short stories. In discussing each work, Duvall challenges the traditional view that Faulkner created active men who follow a code of honor and passive women who are close to nature. Instead, he charts the many instances of men who are nurturing and passive and women who are strong and sexually active. These alternative couples undermine a common view of Faulkner as an upholder of Southern patriarchal values, thus countering the argument that Faulkner's fiction is essentially misogynist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This new approach, drawing on semiotics, feminism, and Marxism, makes Faulkner more accessible to readers interested in ideological analysis. It also stresses the intertextual connections between Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha and non-Yoknapatawpha fiction. Perhaps most importantly, it uncovers what the New Criticism concealed, namely, that Faulkner's fiction traces the full androgynous spectrum of the human condition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn N. Duvall is a Professor of English and the Margaret Church Distinguished Professor at Purdue University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 182\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53344518308147,"sku":"9780292735941","price":42.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NzKfqqdVhV9780292735941.webp?v=1778725825","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/faulkners-marginal-couple-invisible-outlaw-and-unspeakable-communities-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}