William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity
This book argues that Faulkner unlocked his truest potential as a modernist artist by turning away from the modernity of the Great War toward aspects of modernity closer to his Mississippi home.
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Over the course of his writing career (1919-1962), William Faulkner experimented with multiple modernisms, multiple subjects, and practices of modernist art. This book argues that Faulkner unlocked his truest potential as a modernist artist by turning away from the modernity of the Great War, which fascinated him throughout his literary apprenticeship in the 1920s, and toward other faces of modernity he found closer to his Mississippi home and as a result knew more intimately and vividly: rural modernity, technological modernity, racial modernity, biopolitical modernity. Tracking Faulkner as he engages imaginatively with these other, more local faces of modernity sheds new and revealing light on his novels and stories.
