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Doubling and Incest / Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner
by John T. Irwin
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1996-03-14)
ISBN: 0801852315
EAN: 9780801852312
Dewy Decimal #: 812.52
Paperback: 192 pages
Edition: Revised & enlarged
SKU: S070209-1139
Condition: Collectable Very Goo
Comments: Signed and dedicated by author. Very good overall condition. No writing, very tight binding. A wave due to awkward storage. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Product Description
When it was first published, Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge proved to be a seminal work in the psychoanalytic study of Faulkner's fiction, especially of The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! This softcover reissue of John Irwin's masterful exposition unwinds the mystery of unconscious desire and doubling that inform the novels.
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Deepest Faulkner
Rating  (5)
Date: 2002-09-29
7 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Irwin's book was recommended by a professor years ago, when I was reading Light in August. I bought it then but I found I needed to read Absalom! Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury closely before I could get anywhere with this book. Though Freud is pivotal in Irwin's review, his use of Freud is flexible, not dogmatic. Jungian snippets (the shadow nature of the unconscious)emerge from time to time as well. The book is essentially an investigation into Quentin Compson's struggles with incest and impotence that leads to his suicide, yet it also applies to the South's loss of the Civil War and general outrages resulting from human frustration.
Irwin's connections between S&F and Absalom are most helpful to my understanding of Faulkner's larger vision of generation and life. Irwin is a true scholar of Faulkner, well read in Freud, tragedy, and of course William Faulkner. I have not seen a better portrayal of the problem of revenge against time and Oedipal fury in any other book. Elements of Nietzsche are coupled with Freud-- Irwin is well aware of the connections between these two-- and the connections between fate and the psyche's imprisonment in endless repetitive frustrations are very well developed. I hate to use the cliche "a must read", so I'll say that Faulkner readers who need a little something extra -- not pedantic, nor too academic, but informative-- will want to read this one.
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for literature reading
Rating  (3)
Date: 1999-11-25
0 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
repetition and revenge:a speculative reading of faulkne
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