{"product_id":"inventing-benjy-william-faulkners-most-splendid-creative-leap-paperback","title":"Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner's Most Splendid Creative Leap - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFr?d?rique Spill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eArby Gharibian\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eTaylor Hagood\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInventing Benjy: William Faulkner's Most Splendid Creative Leap \u003c\/i\u003eis a groundbreaking work at the intersection of Faulkner studies and disability studies. Originally published in 2009 by Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle as \u003ci\u003eL'Idiotie dans l'oeuvre de Faulkner\u003c\/i\u003e, this translation brings the book to English-language readers for the first time. Author Frédérique Spill begins with a sustained look at the monologue of Benjy Compson, the initial first-person narrator in Faulkner's \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e. Spill questions the reasons for this narrative choice, bringing readers to consider Benjy's monologue, which is told by a narrator who is deaf and cognitively disabled, as an impossible discourse. This paradoxical discourse, which relies mostly on senses and sensory perception, sets the foundation of a sophisticated poetics of idiocy. Using this form of writing, Faulkner shaped perspective from a disabled character, revealing a certain depth to characters that were previously only portrayed on a shallow level. This style encompasses some of the most striking forms and figures of his leap into modern(ist) writing. In that respect, \u003ci\u003eInventing Benjy \u003c\/i\u003ethoroughly examines Benjy's discourse as an experimental workshop in which objects and words are exclusively modelled by the senses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This study regards Faulkner's decision to place a disabled character at the center of perception as the inaugural and emblematic gesture of his writing. Closely examining excerpts from Faulkner's novels and a few short stories, Spill emphasizes how the corporal, temporal, sensorial, and narrative figures of \"idiocy\" are reflected throughout Faulkner's work. These writing choices underlie some of his most compelling inventions and certainly contribute to his unmistakable writing style. In the process, Faulkner's writing takes on a phenomenological dimension, simultaneously dismantling and reinventing the intertwined dynamics of perception and language.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrédérique Spill \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of American literature at University of Picardy-Jules Verne in Amiens, France. She contributed to \u003ci\u003eCritical Insights: \"The Sound and the Fury\"\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFaulkner at Fifty: Tutors and Tyros\u003c\/i\u003e. She coedited \u003ci\u003eThe Wagon Moves: New Essays on William Faulkner's\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAs I Lay Dying\"\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the spring 2018 issue of the \u003ci\u003eFaulkner Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. She is part of the editorial board of the \u003ci\u003eFaulkner Journal. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Radiance of Small Things in Ron Rash's Writing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e She also coedited, with Randall Wilhelm, a special issue of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Short Story in English\u003c\/i\u003e devoted to Ron Rash's short fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9.25 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 30, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751677526304,"sku":"9781496849014","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/04d2849d3e4b903aed34032c92d3b94b.webp?v=1779977730","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/inventing-benjy-william-faulkners-most-splendid-creative-leap-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}