Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap: William Faulkner's Most Splendid Creative Leap (Hardback)

Cover
Title Page
Copyrights
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Taylor Hagood
Introduction to the Translated Edition
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Idiosyncrasies of an Idiocy: Disarticulation of Bodies, Disconnecting of Narratives
	Chapter 1. Is the Idiot a Monster?
	Chapter 2. The Flabby Flesh and Flaccid Bodies of Idiots
	Chapter 3. Inarticulate Voice and Story
	Chapter 4. Faulknerian Idiotisms: The Mechanisms of Repetition
	Chapter 5. States of a World in Disintegration
Part II. To the Roots of the World: Idiocy and Its Objects
	Chapter 6. Idiots Have Blue Eyes
	Chapter 7. The Idiot Gaze and Its Representations
	Chapter 8. Idiocy’s Fetish Objects: Substitutive Fixations and Logic
	Chapter 9. The Exacerbation of Sensation
	Chapter 10. Idiocy, Alcohol, and Other Illicit Substances: \"A Derangement of All the Senses\"
Part III. “Trying to Say”
	Chapter 11. The Fury of Origins, the Ringing of Sound
	Chapter 12. The Aesthetics of Idiocy: Writing and Aphasia
	Chapter 13. The Disorders of Predication and the Order of a World: The Idiot Idiom
	Chapter 14. Trying to Read Faulkner
Conclusion: Fiction of Origin and the Origin of Fiction
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author