{"product_id":"william-faulkner-and-the-southern-landscape-9780820332192","title":"William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles S. Aiken\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles S. Aiken, a native of Mississippi who was born a few miles from Oxford, has been thinking and writing about the geography of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County for more than thirty years. \u003ci\u003eWilliam Faulkner and the Southern Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e is the culmination of that long-term scholarly project. It is a fresh approach to a much-studied writer and a provocative meditation on the relationship between literary imagination and place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFour main geographical questions shape Aiken's journey to the family seat of the Compsons and the Snopeses. What patterns and techniques did Faulkner use--consciously or subconsciously--to convert the real geography of Lafayette County into a fictional space? Did Faulkner intend Yoknapatawpha to serve as a microcosm of the American South? In what ways does the historical geography of Faulkner's birthplace correspond to that of the fictional world he created? Finally, what geographic legacy has Faulkner left us through the fourteen novels he set in Yoknapatawpha? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an approach, methodology, and sources primarily derived from historical geography, Aiken takes the reader on a tour of Faulkner's real and imagined worlds. The result is an informed reading of Faulkner's life and work and a refined understanding of the relation of literary worlds to the real places that inspire them.","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46883000582295,"sku":"9780820332192","price":4324.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780820332192.webp?v=1770237471","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/william-faulkner-and-the-southern-landscape-9780820332192","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}