Faulkner's Media Romance

Julian Murphet is the Director of the Centre for Modernism Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of four books, most recently Multimedia Modernism: Literature and the Anglo-American Avant-Garde (CUP 2009).

From our leading theorist of multimedia modernism, by previous title and by any other name, and under the command again of Murphet's dialectical zest as well as virtuoso prose, this book is a gripping revisionary look at Faulkner's means for deflecting his inveterate gothic melodrama with such technomodernist evocations as those associated with the culture industry, from radio and phonography to photoessayism and film, all as a sheltering interface for the novelist's romance atavism. Marxist literary history, formalist narratology, and nuanced genre theory converge on these issues in a monumentally incisive demonstration-and a thrilling critical narrative all its own.

• Table of Contents: Introduction: Modernism and the Absent Event of Romance 1. A Folklore of Speed 2. Affect and Spatial Dynamics in Flags in the Dust and The Sound and the Fury 3. Currents of Consciousness; or, my mother is a graphophone 4. The Negative Plate, or Absalom, Absalom! and the camera's voice