{"product_id":"robbing-the-mother-deborah-clarke-9781578068807","title":"Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on both American and French feminist criticism, \u003ci\u003eRobbing the Mother\u003c\/i\u003e explores Faulkner's artistic vision through the maternal influence in such works as \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAs I Lay Dying\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSanctuary\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e The Hamlet\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Light in August\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Palms\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah Clarke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578068800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578068807\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 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Deborah Clarke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054807904511,"sku":"9781578068807","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dcf94c06-d54c-4012-a35f-f417a73c5686.jpg?v=1685032114","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/robbing-the-mother-deborah-clarke-9781578068807","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}