BROOKS: WILLIAM FAULKNER : THE YOKNAPATAWPHA COUN TRY (CLOTH): The Yoknapatawpha Country

BROOKS: WILLIAM FAULKNER : THE YOKNAPATAWPHA COUN TRY (CLOTH): The Yoknapatawpha Country by BROOKS. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780300003291.

Hailed by critics and scholars as the most valuable study of Faulkners fiction, Cleanth Brookss William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country explores the Mississippi writers fictional county and the commanding role it played in so much of his work. Brooks shows that Faulkners strong attachment to his region, with its rich particularity and deep sense of community, gave him a special vantage point from which to view the modern world. Brookss consideration of such novels as Light in August, The Unvanquished, As I Lay Dying, and Intruder in the Dust shows the ways in which Faulkner used Yoknapatawpha County to examine the characteristic themes of the twentieth century. Contending that a complete understanding of Faulkners writing cannot be had without a thorough grasp of fictional detail, Brooks gives careful attention to "what happens: In the Yoknapatawpha novels. He also includes useful genealogies of Faulkners fictional clans and a character index.