Faulkner's Conditional Conception

Nietzsche, Matisse, and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-19619-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 303 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

This book reexamines William Faulkner's (1939), a novel of increasing sociohistorical importance despite being one of Faulkner's lesser known and studied works. Wainwright traces Faulkner's 1925 visit to Paris, where he frequented major and minor art galleries and exhibitions and gained a formative appreciation of color and form, color as form, and form as color. Fauvism, the art movement of "wild beasts" led at the time by Henri Matisse and inspired by Nietzsche, offered Faulkner this depth. Wainwright argues that the chain of recognition from Nietzsche to Matisse to Faulkner, while fundamental to Faulkner’s canon, comes startlingly to the fore in , a book that measures the sociopolitical as well as the cultural situation of an epoch, a period of episodic violence on a global scale, a time of individual bloodshed and collective loss. In surveying the Fauvist bedrock to Faulkner’s career as a writer, this book draws together philosophy, art, and literature before analyzing their influence on him. This process harnesses the thoughts of Faulkner’s contemporaries, both relevant authors and relevant critics, voices that often go unheard in Faulkner studies. The result is a profound meditation on the secular eschatology of , a doctrine comprising conception, abortion, birth, and death.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wainwright, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2 : Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Matisse.- Chapter 3 : William Faulkner and Henri Matisse.- Chapter 4 : Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Matisse, and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem.- Chapter 5 : If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem.- Chapter 6 : If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem and Abortion.- Chapter 7 : If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, Abortion, and Morality .-Chapter 8 : Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Wainwright is Honorary Research Associate at the University of London, UK. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently (2024), (2021),  (2018), and  (2016), all published by Palgrave.