Faulkner's county : the historical roots of Yoknapatawpha

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Label

Faulkner's county : the historical roots of Yoknapatawpha

Title remainder

the historical roots of Yoknapatawpha

Statement of responsibility

Don H. Doyle

Creator

• Doyle, Don Harrison, 1946-

Subject

• History
• Lafayette County (Miss.) -- History
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Settings
• Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"Lafayette County, Mississippi, was the primary inspiration for what is arguably the most famous place in American fiction: William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Falkner once explained that in his Yoknapatawpha stories he "sublimated the actual into the apocryphal." This history of Lafayette County reverses that notion, using Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past." "Drawing on both history and literature, Doyle renders a researched portrait of Faulkner's home. "Yoknapatawpha was a place of the imagination, invented by Faulkner as a vehicle for developing a coherent body of fiction," Doyle writes, "but the raw materials from which he created this place and its people lay right at his front porch.""--Jacket

Member of

• Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

976.2/83

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

F347.L2

LC item number

D69 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies