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• W2885326087 abstract "Donald M. Kartiganer Texts, Contexts ... and a Curious Lacuna Review of Charles Hannon, Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2005. xii + 195 pp.; Peter Lurie, Visions Im­ manence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. xvi + 237 pp.; Owen Robinson, Creating Yoknaptawpha: Readers and Writers in Faulkner’s Fiction, New York: Routledge, 2006. x + 252 pp. T hese are three quite different books, each one representing a distinct approach to Faulkner’s work, and each one making an original and significant contribution to Faulkner studies. The Hannon and Lurie books bring to our attention specific historical and cultural materials, primarily from the 1930s. Hannon introduces several disciplines and discours­ es critical to the decade and by and large new to Faulkner study: a revisionist historiography regarding black/white relations in the South, primarily initiated by W. E. B. Du Bois; a significant shift in legal theory; several labor movements emerging from the challenge ofthe Great Depression; and the culmination ofa new development in ethnographic research. Peter Lurie has a narrower focus: forms of 1930s popular culture, with particular emphasis on detective fiction and film. Even this late in the turn of literary study to the impact of historical and cultural contexts on literature, both books provide new points of entrance into Faulkner’s work, and thereby new levels of a fiction that has come to seem boundless in its capacity to register the world outside it. The Robinson book adheres closely to the texts themselves, identifying the “creation” ofYoknapatawpha as the product of a formal dynamic: the relation­ ship between the readers and writers within the fiction—“writers” who seek to effect a design, a myth, a social transformation, and “readers” who interpret them—and who become, as it were, stand-ins for the literal writer and reader before and after the fiction. Both relationships constitute collaborations in the formation of an “inexhaustible world” (210) that is always being rewritten and reread. For all three approaches Faulkner provides, not uncharacteristically, con­ tradictory comments, alternately skeptical and supportive. With regard to the emphases of the Hannon and Lurie books, we have Faulkner’s self-limitation of extraliterary research to casual trips to the “lumber room,” a knowledge of Freud acquired solely through playing poker, vacillations between rever­ ence for Mann and Joyce and ignorance of their existence, or the dismissive 67 68 Donald M. Kartiganer Texts, Contexts... and a Curious Lacuna acknowledgment of the South as the region “I just happen to know” (Cowley 14-15). These familiar reductions, part of the humble plowman pose, were probably less an affectation than one more version of that deep guardedness Faulkner maintained all his life, as if he needed to fend off not only gawking visitors and unscrupulous critics, but even “influence” as a violation of per­ sonal privacy. Nevertheless, elsewhere Faulkner supplies a blanket invitation to contex­ tual readings: the writer, he once said, “collects his material all his life from everything he reads, from everything he listens to, everything he sees” (FU 116). Certainly not the least benefit of his notorious reticence was the habit of attending: a capacity for intense focus, whether on his writing or reading or on the world around him. That attention could range from the notice of someone’s new furniture to the behavior of a whole class of people. He once complimented Phil Stone’s wife, Emily, on some changes she had made in the parlor of her home. “You surprise me,” she said. “Phil says you never see any­ thing.” Faulkner replied firmly, “I see everything” (Snell 232). There is the story in Oxford that, at one point in his life, Faulkner would spend his Satur­ days standing on the southwest corner of Courthouse Square (now the site of Square Books) watching the country people when they would come into town for their weekly shopping. Apparently he would stay there for hours, watching, listening, storing away scenes of country want and pleasure: perhaps a child seeing an expensive electric toy train in a shop window, a family enjoying the rare treat of bananas, a limping carpenter proudly placing a graphophone in his wagon. And along..." @default.
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