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Telling Truths in Faulkner's Fiction

Telling Truths in Faulkner's Fiction Telling Truths in Faulkner's Fiction by Charles Hannon William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words. By Richard Godden. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. x + 264 pp. $44.00 cloth. William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition. By David H. Evans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2008. ix + 304 pp. $40.00 cloth. In the recent historical contexts of a new American president looking to the first Great Depression for ways to head off a second, and the 2008 MLA meeting rife with angst over the teaching of literature and the humanities amidst the worst academic job outlook since the troughs of the mid-1990s, two new books of Faulkner criticism seem especially timely. William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words extends Richard Godden's earlier work on subjectivity in Faulkner (Fictions of Capital, Cambridge UP, 1990) to show us more ways that economic relations can define both our own identities and how we perceive those of others. David Evans' William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition reminds us of the rich literary and philosophical heritage that runs through Faulkner's work and keeps us reading and teaching his texts for lessons in who we are and what we http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Telling Truths in Faulkner's Fiction

Hannon, Charles.
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 42 (2) – Jul 4, 2010
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Telling Truths in Faulkner's Fiction by Charles Hannon William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words. By Richard Godden. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. x + 264 pp. $44.00 cloth. William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition. By David H. Evans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2008. ix + 304 pp. $40.00 cloth. In the recent historical contexts of a new American president looking to the first Great Depression for ways to head off a second, and the 2008 MLA meeting rife with angst over the teaching of literature and the humanities amidst the worst academic job outlook since the troughs of the mid-1990s, two new books of Faulkner criticism seem especially timely. William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words extends Richard Godden's earlier work on subjectivity in Faulkner (Fictions of Capital, Cambridge UP, 1990) to show us more ways that economic relations can define both our own identities and how we perceive those of others. David Evans' William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition reminds us of the rich literary and philosophical heritage that runs through Faulkner's work and keeps us reading and teaching his texts for lessons in who we are and what we

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