Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War by Dr. Michael Zeitlin (English) Hardcover Bo

Description: Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War by Dr. Michael Zeitlin Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War frames William Faulkners airplane narratives against major scenes of the early 20th century: the Great War, the rise of European fascism in the 1920s and 30s, the Second World War, and the aviation arms race extending from the Wright Flyer in 1903 into the Cold War era. Placing biographical accounts of Faulkners time in the Royal Air Force Canada against analysis of such works as Soldiers Pay (1926), "All the Dead Pilots" (1931), Pylon (1935), and A Fable (1954), this book situates Faulkners aviation writing within transatlantic historical contexts that have not been sufficiently appreciated in Faulkners work.Michael Zeitlin unpacks a broad selection of Faulkners novels, stories, film treatments, essays, book reviews, and letters to outline Faulkners complex and ambivalent relationship to the ideologies of masculine performance and martial heroism in an age dominated by industrialism and military technology. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Michael Zeitlin is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the editor of Misrecognition, Race, and the Real in Faulkners Fiction (2004) and former co-editor of The Faulkner Journal. Table of Contents List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. The Original Accident2. New Haven, Spring 1918: The War and the Newspapers3. Transfiguration: Chapman, Guynemer, Lufbery4. Faulkner and the Royal Air Force5. The Embryo Pilot6. Wounded Flyer7. "Love," Manservant, and Faulkners First Screenplay8. Pylon: The Last War and the NextCoda: Faulkner and Jimmy McCudden at the Savoy: A FableWorks CitedIndex Review Michael Zeitlin has written a book that will change the way Faulkner scholars understand the authors life-long obsession with airplanes, pilots, and flying. An astonishing amount of research into World War I aviation is skillfully woven together to provide a rich context for understanding Faulkners novels and short stories as part of Faulkners life and times in important new ways. * Christopher Rieger, Professor of English and Director of the Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University, USA *Stunning insight, beautifully written. Zeitlins work changes the meaning of perspective in Faulkners vision: his ways of seeing. Engaging modernity in Modernism, Faulkner, Aviation and Modern War speaks to a waiting audience about flight itself to capture meaning through this incisive turn in Euro-western mythos and masculinity. * Candace Waid, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and author of The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkners Art (2013) *William Faulkners idolatry of the aeroplane, and of the crazy bold pilots who cut the skies to ribbons with one in the 1920s and 30s, is one of those happy freaks of literary modernism that seemed never to achieve its critical reckoning. Well, here it is. Michael Zeitlins exhaustive research has deftly negotiated all the pylons, and in his high-octane thrill-ride alongside military aviators, barnstormers, commercial aces and all the dead pilots, we glimpse an aerial map of Faulkners stylistic physiognomy. That quixotic desire to lift his poly-clausal periods above the turbulence of ideological conflict and draw in the gravid air his stately figures of torque made Faulkners flyboy dreaming into art. With this book, Zeitlin has plotted the great authors death-drag dromology as the weightless career of a Sopwith Camel along the border between myth and metal. * Julian Murphet, Jury Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Adelaide, Australia, and author of Faulkners Media Romance (2017) *Michael Zeitlins new book is a singular achievement. He is the first Faulkner scholar to take on the whole of the authors flying corpus, and Zeitlin shrewdly analyzes the role of aviation, and, in particular, wartime flight in Faulkners writing and thought...All of this comes to us in a prose as graceful as those pilots soaring and dipping as well as through a writerly voice as unassuming and assured as that of men like Chapman, George Guynemar, and Raoul Lufbery were in flight. * American Literary History *Michael Zeitlins extraordinary study is an attempt to get at the multilayered meaning of Faulkner and flight as it evolved during the First World War and the decades following. He lays out in elaborate detail Faulkners service as a twenty-one-year-old cadet [and] quotes liberally from Faulkners letters home to his parents during this period. * The Faulkner Journal * Promotional This book examines airplanes in William Faulkners writing within the context of the authors military experience, the history of aviation, and 20th-century war. Review Quote William Faulkners idolatry of the aeroplane, and of the crazy bold pilots who cut the skies to ribbons with one in the 1920s and 30s, is one of those happy freaks of literary modernism that seemed never to achieve its critical reckoning. Well, here it is. Michael Zeitlins exhaustive research has deftly negotiated all the pylons, and in his high-octane thrill-ride alongside military aviators, barnstormers, commercial aces and all the dead pilots , we glimpse an aerial map of Faulkners stylistic physiognomy. That quixotic desire to lift his poly-clausal periods above the turbulence of ideological conflict and draw in the gravid air his stately figures of torque made Faulkners flyboy dreaming into art. With this book, Zeitlin has plotted the great authors death-drag dromology as the weightless career of a Sopwith Camel along the border between myth and metal. Promotional "Headline" This book examines airplanes in William Faulkners writing within the context of the authors military experience, the history of aviation, and 20th-century war. Feature By focusing on planes as symbols of military-industrial technology and modernity, this book traces Faulkners evolution as a writer through the pre- and post-war periods of the 20th century Details ISBN1501356755 Language English ISBN-10 1501356755 ISBN-13 9781501356759 Format Hardcover Author Dr. Michael Zeitlin Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Year 2022 Publication Date 2022-01-13 UK Release Date 2022-01-13 NZ Release Date 2022-01-13 US Release Date 2022-01-13 Pages 248 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA DEWEY 813.52 Illustrations 10 bw illus Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2022-01-12 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134189752;

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