William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing
William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing examines the many physical texts in Faulkner's novels and stories from letters and telegrams to Bibles, billboards, and even the alphabetic shape of airport runways. Current investigations in print culture, book history, and media studies often emphasize the controlling power of technological form; instead, this book demonstrates how media should be understood in the context of its use. Throughout Faulkner's oeuvre, various kinds of writing become central to characters forming a sense of the self as well as bonds of intimacy, while ideologies of race and gender connect to the body through the vehicle of writing. This book combines close reading analysis of Faulkner's fiction with the publication history of his works that together offer a case study about what it means to live in a world permeated by media.
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William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing
William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing examines the many physical texts in Faulkner's novels and stories from letters and telegrams to Bibles, billboards, and even the alphabetic shape of airport runways. Current investigations in print culture, book history, and media studies often emphasize the controlling power of technological form; instead, this book demonstrates how media should be understood in the context of its use. Throughout Faulkner's oeuvre, various kinds of writing become central to characters forming a sense of the self as well as bonds of intimacy, while ideologies of race and gender connect to the body through the vehicle of writing. This book combines close reading analysis of Faulkner's fiction with the publication history of his works that together offer a case study about what it means to live in a world permeated by media.
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William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing

William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing

by Jonathan Berliner
William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing
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William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing

William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing

by Jonathan Berliner

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William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing examines the many physical texts in Faulkner's novels and stories from letters and telegrams to Bibles, billboards, and even the alphabetic shape of airport runways. Current investigations in print culture, book history, and media studies often emphasize the controlling power of technological form; instead, this book demonstrates how media should be understood in the context of its use. Throughout Faulkner's oeuvre, various kinds of writing become central to characters forming a sense of the self as well as bonds of intimacy, while ideologies of race and gender connect to the body through the vehicle of writing. This book combines close reading analysis of Faulkner's fiction with the publication history of his works that together offer a case study about what it means to live in a world permeated by media.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781009222327
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01/05/2023
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Berliner received his PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago and served as an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. His work has been published in journals, including PMLA, American Literary Realism, and Amerikastudien / American Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Not Even Past: Media, History, and Repurposing the Text; Chapter 2. Parchment Bodies: Race and Writing Materials; Chapter 3. Inkwell Eyes: Writing, Gender, and the Body; Chapter 4. Circuits of Media: Airplanes, Newspapers, and the Afterlife of Novels; Chapter 5. On Carpentry: Religion and the Question of Literature; Chapter 6. From Ivory to Foolscap: Writing and Intimacy; Works Cited; Index.
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