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Book Title
Forensic Fictions : The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner
ISBN
9780820333656
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Publication Name
Forensic Fictions : the Lawyer Figure in Faulkner
Item Length
9 in
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Subject
American / General
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
Jay Watson
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Forensic Fictions is the first book-length critical study of William Faulkner's fictional depictions of the legal vocation and the practice of law. Examining Faulkner's lawyer characters in light of the southern storytelling tradition, Jay Watson argues that the forensic competence of the Faulknerian lawyer is a direct function of his skill as a raconteur. To trace the biographical and historical roots of Faulkner's lifelong preoccupation with the legal profession, Watson draws on contemporary scholarship in narrative, rhetoric, jurisprudence, legal and intellectual history, literary theory, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. His approach yields insightful readings of forensic characters and scenes from such works as "An Odor of Verbena," The Hamlet , "Wild Palms," Absalom, Absalom! and The Reivers . Watson shows the links between storytelling and the competence of Faulkner's legal characters by examining the intertextual logic that connects the two most important lawyers in the Yoknapatawpha fiction: the incompetent Horace Benbow and the more capable Gavin Stevens, whose entrance into Faulkner's oeuvre coincides with Benbow's untimely departure from it. Focusing on the nine novels in which these two characters appear, Watson traces the evolutionary process by which Stevens supplants Benbow. Three of the Stevens novels-- Intruder in the Dust , Knight's Gambit , and Requiem for a Nun --from what Watson calls Faulkner's "forensic trilogy" and, when read together, constitute the writer's most sustained investigation of the rhetorical and ethical responsibilities of the lawyer-citizen. Faulkner, Watson argues, saw the forensic figure as a potential hybrid of homo loquens and homo politicus, capable of combing the roles of storyteller, rhetorician, and theatrical performer with those of critic, citizen, and ethical man. As such, this figure served as a provocative authorial surrogate through whom Faulkner could explore diverse and often contradictory aspects of his personal experience, his family background, his cultural heritage, and, most of all, his own artistic use of language.

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University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820333654
ISBN-13
9780820333656
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Author
Jay Watson
Publication Name
Forensic Fictions : the Lawyer Figure in Faulkner
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
American / General
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Original Language
English
Copyright Date
1993
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional

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