Michel Gresset 1936-2005

An obituary for Michel Gresset, who died on the summer of 2005, is presented. Gresset had been an essential part of Faulkner studies for nearly 40 years, and his numerous published works will doubtless make him an essential part o Faulkner studies for at least the next 40 years. His major study, Fas...

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Published in:The Mississippi quarterly 2004-10, Vol.57 (4), p.VI
Main Authors: Pitavy, François, Polk, Noel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Critics
Deaths
Fiction
Gresset, Michel (1936-2005)
Literature
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Welty, Eudora (1909-2001)
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Summary:An obituary for Michel Gresset, who died on the summer of 2005, is presented. Gresset had been an essential part of Faulkner studies for nearly 40 years, and his numerous published works will doubtless make him an essential part o Faulkner studies for at least the next 40 years. His major study, Fascination: Faulkner's Fiction, 1919-1936, brilliantly and eclectically using the tools of contemporary criticism, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, as well as the examples of poets, traced the recurring themes of Faulkner's fiction to some focal scenes of possession and frustrated desire and to hitherto often overlooked early texts.
ISSN:0026-637X