Joe Barrett
Author
Language
English
Description
How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics.
Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi,...