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• catalog abstract "Forensic Fictions is the first book-length critical study of William Faulkner's fictional depictions of the legal vocation and the practice of law. Examining Faulkner's lawyer characters in light of the southern storytelling tradition, Jay Watson argues that the forensic competence of the Faulknerian lawyer is a direct function of his skill as a raconteur. To trace the biographical and historical roots of Faulkner's lifelong preoccupation with the legal profession, Watson draws on contemporary scholarship in narrative, rhetoric, jurisprudence, legal and intellectual history, literary theory, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. His approach yields insightful readings of forensic characters and scenes from such works as "An Odor of Verbena," The Hamlet, "Wild Palms," Absalom, Absalom!, and The Reivers. Watson shows the links between storytelling and the competence of Faulkner's legal characters by examining the intertextual logic that connects the two most important lawyers in the Yoknapatawpha fiction: the incompetent Horace Benbow and the more capable Gavin Stevens, whose entrance into Faulkner's oeuvre coincides with Benbow's untimely departure from it. Focusing on the nine novels in which these two characters appear, Watson traces the evolutionary process by which Stevens supplants Benbow. Three of the Stevens novels - Intruder in the Dust, Knight's Gambit, and Requiem for a Nun - form what Watson calls Faulkner's "forensic trilogy" and, when read together, constitute the writer's most sustained investigation of the rhetorical and ethical responsibilities of the lawyer-citizen. Faulkner, Watson argues, saw the forensic figure as a potential hybrid of homo loquens and homo politicus, capable of combining the roles of storyteller, rhetorician, and theatrical performer with those of critic, citizen, and ethical man. As such, this figure served as a provocative authorial surrogate through whom Faulkner could explore diverse and often contradictory aspects of his personal experience, his family background, his cultural heritage, and, most of all, his own artistic use of language.".
• catalog contributor b4188168.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "Faulkner, Watson argues, saw the forensic figure as a potential hybrid of homo loquens and homo politicus, capable of combining the roles of storyteller, rhetorician, and theatrical performer with those of critic, citizen, and ethical man. As such, this figure served as a provocative authorial surrogate through whom Faulkner could explore diverse and often contradictory aspects of his personal experience, his family background, his cultural heritage, and, most of all, his own artistic use of language.".
• catalog description "Forensic Fictions is the first book-length critical study of William Faulkner's fictional depictions of the legal vocation and the practice of law. Examining Faulkner's lawyer characters in light of the southern storytelling tradition, Jay Watson argues that the forensic competence of the Faulknerian lawyer is a direct function of his skill as a raconteur. To trace the biographical and historical roots of Faulkner's lifelong preoccupation with the legal profession, Watson draws on contemporary scholarship in narrative, rhetoric, jurisprudence, legal and intellectual history, literary theory, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. His approach yields insightful readings of forensic characters and scenes from such works as "An Odor of Verbena," The Hamlet, "Wild Palms," Absalom, Absalom!, and The Reivers. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-270) and index.".
• catalog description "The Faulknerian forensic figure -- The failure of the forensic storyteller: Horace Benbow -- The emergence of the lawyer-citizen: Gavin Stevens -- "We're after just a murderer, not a lawyer": Gavin Stevens in Intruder in the Dust -- Colloquial detection; or, "discovering it by accident" in Knight's Gambit -- Maieutic forensics; or, Requiem for a Nun and the talking cure -- Reappraising the forensic figure: Gavin Stevens and his discontents in The Town and The Mansion.".
• catalog description "Watson shows the links between storytelling and the competence of Faulkner's legal characters by examining the intertextual logic that connects the two most important lawyers in the Yoknapatawpha fiction: the incompetent Horace Benbow and the more capable Gavin Stevens, whose entrance into Faulkner's oeuvre coincides with Benbow's untimely departure from it. Focusing on the nine novels in which these two characters appear, Watson traces the evolutionary process by which Stevens supplants Benbow. Three of the Stevens novels - Intruder in the Dust, Knight's Gambit, and Requiem for a Nun - form what Watson calls Faulkner's "forensic trilogy" and, when read together, constitute the writer's most sustained investigation of the rhetorical and ethical responsibilities of the lawyer-citizen. ".
• catalog extent "viii, 277 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0820315168 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Athens : University of Georgia Press,".
• catalog subject "813/.52 20".
• catalog subject "Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 Characters Lawyers.".
• catalog subject "Lawyers in literature.".
• catalog subject "PS3511.A86 Z98536 1993".
• catalog tableOfContents "The Faulknerian forensic figure -- The failure of the forensic storyteller: Horace Benbow -- The emergence of the lawyer-citizen: Gavin Stevens -- "We're after just a murderer, not a lawyer": Gavin Stevens in Intruder in the Dust -- Colloquial detection; or, "discovering it by accident" in Knight's Gambit -- Maieutic forensics; or, Requiem for a Nun and the talking cure -- Reappraising the forensic figure: Gavin Stevens and his discontents in The Town and The Mansion.".
• catalog title "Forensic fictions : the lawyer figure in Faulkner / Jay Watson.".
• catalog type "text".