"Put a Mississippian in Alcohol and You Have a Gentleman": Respectable Manhood in William Faulkner's Sanctuary

This scholarly article analyzes how William Faulkner’s novel Sanctuary complicates traditional ideas of “respectable manhood” in the Southern United States. The author examines Faulkner’s use of Southern Gothic aesthetics and narrative strategies to expose how social norms about male respectability are linked with violence, moral ambiguity, and cultural contradictions in the early twentieth-century South. By focusing on the depiction of male characters and the complex moral tensions in the novel, the article argues that Faulkner critiques conventional ideals of masculine virtue and reveals deeper cultural anxieties about honor, power, and identity in Southern society.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Doss, Crystal Gorham

Đề mục:

Literary criticism

Nhà xuất bản:

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Fall 2013

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Định dạng:

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Nguồn gốc:

The Faulkner Journal, Volume 27, Number 2, Fall 2013, Pages 71-89,91

Liên kết:

ISSN 0884-2949

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"Put a Mississippian in Alcohol and You Have a Gentleman": Respectable Manhood in William Faulkner's Sanctuary

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