Faulkner's Subject
A Cosmos No One Owns

Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns offers a reading of William Faulkner by viewing his masterpieces through the lens of current critical theory.

Philip M. Weinstein (Author)

9780521390477, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 May 1992

204 pages
23.8 x 15.9 x 2 cm, 0.42 kg

"Philip Weinstein has written a brilliant, candid, timely book, not just about Faulkner as a writer but also about Faulkner as a changing institution of reading and teaching." Richard C. Moreland, Modern Fiction Stories

Faulker's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns offers a reading of William Faulkner by viewing his masterpieces through the lens of current critical theory. The book addresses both the power of his work and the current theoretical issues that call that power into question. Drawing on poststructuralist, ideological and gender theory, Weinstein examines the harrowing process of 'becoming oneself' at the heart of Faulkner's work, and suggests that the cosmos Faulkner called his own - the textual world he produced - emerges as a cosmos no one owns, a verbal territory generated and biased by the larger culture's discourses of gender and race.

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Map
Introduction
1. Gender
2. Race
3. Subjectivity
4. Culture: a cosmos no one owns
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]