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Faulkner's county : the historical roots of Yoknapatawpha

Author: Don Harrison Doyle
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001.
Series: Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Lafayette County, Mississippi, was the primary inspiration for what is arguably the most famous place in American fiction: William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Falkner once explained that in his Yoknapatawpha stories he "sublimated the actual into the apocryphal." This history of Lafayette County reverses that notion, using Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past."  Read more...
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Doyle, Don Harrison, 1946-
Faulkner's county.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001
(OCoLC)606593601
Named Person: William Faulkner; William Faulkner; William Faulkner
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Don Harrison Doyle
ISBN: 0807826154 9780807826157 0807849316 9780807849316
OCLC Number: 45087302
Description: xviii, 458 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1 Yoknapatawpha 23 --
2 Genesis 53 --
3 Communities 87 --
4 Slaves 121 --
5 Revolution 157 --
6 War 187 --
7 Vanquished 215 --
8 Another War 253 --
9 Rednecks 291 --
10 Town 327 --
Epilogue: What Was, Is 373.
Series Title: Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
Responsibility: Don H. Doyle.
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"Lafayette County, Mississippi, was the primary inspiration for what is arguably the most famous place in American fiction: William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Falkner once explained that in his Yoknapatawpha stories he "sublimated the actual into the apocryphal." This history of Lafayette County reverses that notion, using Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past." "Drawing on both history and literature, Doyle renders a researched portrait of Faulkner's home. "Yoknapatawpha was a place of the imagination, invented by Faulkner as a vehicle for developing a coherent body of fiction," Doyle writes, "but the raw materials from which he created this place and its people lay right at his front porch.""--BOOK JACKET.

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