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  • The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner's Novels from The Sound and the Fury to Light in August
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  • André Bleikasten
  • 2016
  • Published by: Indiana University Press
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Ink of Melancholy re-examines and re-evaluates William Faulkner's work from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, one of his most creative periods. Rather than approach Faulkner's fiction through a prefabricated grid, André Bleikasten concentrates on the texts themselves—on the motivations and circumstances of their composition, on the rich array of their themes, structures, textures, points of emphasis and repetition, as well as their rifts and gaps—while drawing on the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology. Brilliant in its thought and argument, Ink of Melancholy is one of the most insightful and stimulating studies of Faulkner's work.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. CONTENTS
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. PREFACE
  2. pp. vii-xiii
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  1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  2. p. xiv
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  1. EDITIONS CITED AND ABBREVIATIONS
  2. pp. xv-xvi
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  1. Introduction: Masks and Mirrors
  2. pp. 1-38
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  1. One. The Struggle with the Angel
  1. I. The Quest for Eurydice
  2. pp. 41-55
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  1. II. The Agony of Dispossession
  2. pp. 56-70
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  1. III. The Young Man, Desire, and Death
  2. pp. 71-90
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  1. IV. Of Time and the Unreal
  2. pp. 91-104
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  1. V. The Poison of Resentment
  2. pp. 105-124
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  1. VI. An Easter without Resurrection?
  2. pp. 125-146
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  1. Two. Requiem for a Mother
  1. VII. A "Tour de Force"
  2. pp. 149-162
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  1. VIII. A Dying Life, a Living Death
  2. pp. 163-183
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  1. IX. Turns of Madness
  2. pp. 184-200
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  1. X. The Real and Its Representations
  2. pp. 201-210
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  1. Three. The Blackness of Darkness
  1. XI. "The Most Horrific Tale"
  2. pp. 213-220
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  1. XII. Terror and Transgression
  2. pp. 221-236
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  1. XIII. The Madness of Bodies
  2. pp. 237-252
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  1. XIV. The Infernal Nursery
  2. pp. 253-272
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  1. Four. Versions of the Sun
  1. XV. In Praise of Helen
  2. pp. 275-285
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  1. XVI. The Cracked Urns
  2. pp. 286-299
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  1. XVII. The Perils of Purity
  2. pp. 300-313
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  1. XVIII. The Fathers
  2. pp. 314-334
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  1. XIX. Circles
  2. pp. 335-351
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  1. Epilogue: Under the Sign of Saturn
  2. pp. 352-359
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  1. NOTES
  2. pp. 360-397
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  1. INDEX
  2. pp. 398-400
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