LIT-465 Faulkner and the South

Faulkner’s major novels, published between the late 1920s and the early 1940s, trace his most impassioned struggle with the legacies of slavery, the enduring hierarchies of gender and class, and the rising specter of industrialization’s destructive force. We’ll explore the series of radical formal innovations Faulkner arrived at in order to convey these stories, and to convey the inextricability of one from the next—both in American society and in individual consciousness. Readings: Light in August, Absalom, Absalom, Go Down, Moses, and more.

Maximum Enrollment

12

Credits

1

Prerequisite

3 courses in Literature

Notes

(History and Genre).