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Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner Paperback - 2006

by Deborah Clarke

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William Faulkner claimed that it may be necessary for a writer to "rob his mother," should the need arise. "If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies," he remarked.

This study of Faulkner's paradoxical attitude toward women, particularly mothers, will stimulate debate and concern, for his novels are shown here to have presented them as both a source and a threat to being and to language.

"My reading of Faulkner," the author says, "attempts more than an identification of female stereotypes and an examination of misogyny, for Faulkner, who almost certainly feared and mistrusted women, also sees in them a mysterious, often threatening power, which is often aligned with his own creativity and the grounds of his own fiction."

Drawing on both American and French feminist criticism, Robbing the Mother explores Faulkner's artistic vision through the maternal influence in such works as The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Sanctuary; Absalom, Absalom!; The Hamlet; Light in August; and The Wild Palms.

First line

Coming from a man so devoted to his mother that he apparently visited her every day he spent in Oxford, this cavalier treatment of the mother's claims sounds suspiciously like the tongue-in-cheek statements so common in Faulkner's interviews.

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A close look at William Faulkner�s strange ambivalence toward maternal figures in his novels

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  • Title Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner
  • Author Deborah Clarke
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi
  • Date 2006-01-01
  • ISBN 9781578068807 / 1578068800
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.42 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.07 cm)
  • Reading level 1340
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.52

About the author

Deborah Clarke is vice provost for academic personnel in the University Provost's Office and professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. She is author of Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America.

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