{"product_id":"the-signifying-eye-seeing-faulkners-art-paperback","title":"The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner's Art - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCandace Waid\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bold book, built of close readings, striking in its range and depth, \u003ci\u003eThe Signifying Eye\u003c\/i\u003e shows Faulkner's art take shape in sweeping arcs of social, labor, and aesthetic history. Beginning with long-unpublished works (his childhood sketches and his hand-drawn and hand-illustrated play \u003ci\u003eThe Marionettes\u003c\/i\u003e) and early novels (\u003ci\u003eMosquitoes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSartoris\u003c\/i\u003e), working through many major works (\u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom \u003c\/i\u003e), and including more popular fictions (\u003ci\u003eThe Wild Palms\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Unvanquished\u003c\/i\u003e) and late novels (notably \u003ci\u003eIntruder in the Dust\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Town\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Signifying Eye\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Faulkner's visual obsessions with artistic creation as his work is read next to Wharton, Cather, Toomer, and--in a tour de force intervention--Willem de Kooning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter coloring in southern literature as a \"reverse slave narrative,\" Waid's \u003ci\u003eEye\u003c\/i\u003e locates Faulkner's fiction as the \"feminist hinge\" in a crucial parable of art that seeks abstraction through the burial of the race-defined mother. Race is seen through gender and sexuality while social fall is exposed (in Waid's phrase) as a \"coloring of class.\" Locating \"visual language\" that constitutes a \"pictorial vocabulary,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Signifying Eye\u003c\/i\u003e delights in literacy as the oral meets the written and the abstract opens as a site to see narrative. Steeped in history, this book locates a heightened reality that goes beyond representation to bring Faulkner's novels, stories, and drawings into visible form through Whistler, Beardsley, Gorky, and de Kooning. Visionary and revisionist, Waid has painted the proverbial big picture, changing the fundamental way that both the making of modernism and the avant-garde will be seen.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCANDACE WAID is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eEdith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457513734397,"sku":"9780820350554","price":60.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/OE44WEFLTlhCZlNrVXpacUlZSDhlQT09.webp?v=1777238006","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-signifying-eye-seeing-faulkners-art-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}