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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Doyle, Don Harrison, 1946- Faulkner's county. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001 (OCoLC)606593601 |
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| 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. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"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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- Lafayette County (Miss.) -- History.
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- Faulkner, William, -- 1897-1962 -- Cadre de l'œuvre.
- Yoknapatawpha County (Lieu imaginaire)
- Lafayette (Mississ.) -- Histoire.
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- Amerikaans.
- Faulkner, William.
- Yoknapatawpha County.
