The Snopes Family and the Yoknapatawpha County: A Study of William Faulkner's Trilogy ~ character studies ~ Morris Wei-hsin Tien

Title: The Snopes Family and the Yoknapatawpha County: A Study of William Faulkner's Trilogy
Author: Morris Wei-hsin Tien
Publication: Nankang, Teipei, Republic of China [Taiwan]: Institute of American Culture, Academia Sinica, 1982

Description: Softcover. Shows some handling and moderate wear; corners bumped; stress crease on spine. Rubber stamp from the publisher in upper-corner of title page, else interior is clean and unmarked. 97 pages.

A literary study of the characters in William Faulkner's Snopes trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion), the Snopses and the Sartorises, which rejects the assessment of George Marion O'Donnell's ''Faulkner's Mythology'' and any sweeping generalizations about the Snopses, and evaluates the social and historical backgrounds of both Frenchman's Bend and Jefferson to show the preexistence of the so-called Snopesism.

Published as Monograph on American Literature 3 by the Institute of American Culture, Academia Sinica.

Morris Wei-hsin Tien (b. 1936), a Fulbright scholar, earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1977, and returned to Taiwan to serve as professor and chairman of the Department of English at National Central University.

Binding: Softcover
Condition: Good

Keywords: William Faulkner, William Faulkner studies, literary criticism, Snopes trilogy, The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion, character development, character studies, George Marion O'Donnell,