Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner

William H. Rueckert Information and Pricing 9 978-1-932559-02-6 (paperback, $28.00); 978-1-932559-03-3 (hardcover, $55.00); 978-1-932559-04-0 (PDF, $14.99) © 2004 by Parlor Press. 384 pages, including notes, bibliographical references, and index Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner is the culmination of William H. Rueckert’s lifetime of study of this great American novelist. Rueckert tracks Faulkner’s development as a novelist through eighteen novels—ranging from Flags in the Dust to The Reivers—to show the turn in Faulkner from destructive to generative being, from tragedy to comedy, from pollution to purification and redemption. At the heart of Faulkner from Within is Rueckert’s sustained treatment of Go Down, Moses, a turning point in Faulkner’s career away from the destructive selves of the earlier novels and—as first manifes