{"product_id":"faulkner-lothar-hzinnighausen-9781578068739","title":"Faulkner: Masks and Metaphors","description":"That Faulkner was a \"liar\" not just in his writing but also in his life has troubled many critics. They have explained his numerous \"false stories,\" particularly those about military honors he actually never earned and war wounds he never sustained, with psychopathological imposture-theories. The drawback of this approach is that it reduces and oversimplifies the complex psychological and aesthetic phenomenon of Faulkner's role-playing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Instead, this critical study by one of the most acclaimed international Faulkner scholars takes its cue from Nietzsche's concept of \"truth as a mobile army of metaphors\" and from Ricoeur's dynamic view of metaphor and treats the wearing of masks not as an ontological issue but as a matter of discourse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hönnighausen examines Faulkner's interviews and photographs for the fictions they perpetuate. Such Faulknerian role-playing he interprets as a mode of organizing experience and relates it to the crafting of the artist's various personae in his works. Mining metaphor as well as modern theories on social role-playing, Hönnighausen examines unexplored aspects of image creation and image reception in such major Faulkner novels as \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLight in August\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Fable\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lothar Hönnighausen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578068738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578068739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d","brand":"Lothar Hönnighausen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962646188287,"sku":"9781578068739","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3937bcaa-a517-42ad-b1e6-af4dfa7f5b56.jpg?v=1750652094","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/faulkner-lothar-hzinnighausen-9781578068739","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}