num_pages: 64
description: Barbara Fried presents here a refined feminist reading of the sharply divergent attitudes toward knowledge attributed to men and women in Faulkner’s fiction. Against a backdrop of the first Fall, the author traces the process by which Faulkner’s men embrace a state of non-being and his women a life of greater knowledge in their twentieth-century fall into the unknowable. Drawing on the main body of Faulkner’s work with close attention to The Sound and the Fury , this richly conceived and gracefully written study animates in a new way the work of one of America’s foremost writers.
language: English
title: The Spider in the Cup: Yoknapatawpha County’s Fall into the Unknowable
titlecomplete: The Spider in the Cup: Yoknapatawpha County’s Fall into the Unknowable (LeBaron Russell Briggs Prize Honors Essays in English)
publisher: Harvard University Department of English