Faulkner and Love
The Women Who Shaped His Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23774863 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judith L Sensibar (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Faulkner and Love (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Yale University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.12987/yale/9780300115031.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W651350057 |
| ISBN | 9780300115031 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This book is about the making of the writer William Faulkner. It is the first to inquire into the three most important women in his life—his black and white mothers, Caroline Barr and Maud Falkner, and the childhood friend who became his wife, Estelle Oldham. In this new exploration of Faulkner's creative process, the text discovers that these women's relationships with Faulkner were not simply close; they gave life to his imagination. The book brings to the foreground, as Faulkner did, this “female world,” an approach unprecedented in Faulkner biography. Through extensive research in untapped biographical sources, including archival materials and interviews with the women's families and other members of the communities in which they lived, the book reconnects Faulkner's biography to his work. It demonstrates how the themes of race, tormented love, and addiction that permeated his fiction had their origins in his three defining relationships with women. The book alters and enriches our understanding not only of Faulkner, his art, and the complex world of the American South that came to life in his brilliant fiction, but also of darknesses, fears, and unspokens that Faulkner unveiled in the American psyche.
Art · Art history · Biography · Literature · Performance art · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Theology · White (mutation) · Wife · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |