Candace Waid is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is the author of Edith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Age of Innocence.
The Signifying Eye will teach even experienced Faulknerians
something new on just about every page, while those early in their
encounter with Faulkner's novels will be offered a series of
brilliant perspectives on the author's astounding creativity and
the superabundant richness and complexity of his body of work. With
The Signifying Eye Waid will take her place among the most
important of all Faulkner critics, and all of us will have to
engage and reckon with her book.--Michael Zeitlin "University of
British Columbia and past editor of The Faulkner Journal"
A brilliant and important book. This rich collation brings together
Faulkner's words and pictures with an impressive array of other
artists' pictures--de Kooning, Beardsley, Whistler--and the prose
of Wharton, Cather, and Waid herself. Waid's inquisitive eye not
only sees but touches all that it lights on. To see what's there
and make it visible to everyone who has the courage to look: that's
Waid's mark.--Alan Trachtenberg "Yale University"
In this innovative and arresting work Waid persuades us of the
value, ultimately the necessity, of understanding Faulkner as a
southern modernist working within two seemingly incompatible
traditions: the oral traditions of southern, regionalist literature
and the self-conscious, print-based textuality of the modernist
avantgarde. Yet The Signifying Eye offers us still more. It
develops into a meditation on the unique visions of experience that
give modern American writing and painting their distinctive
character and appeal.--Maria DiBattista "Princeton University"
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