Faulkner and the Politics of Reading : 9780807127612 : 30 May 2002 : With this study Karl F. Zender offers fresh readings of individual novels, themes, and motifs while also assessing the impact of recent politicized interpretations on our understanding of Faulkner's achievement. Sympathetically acknowledging the need to decenter the canon, Zender's searching interrogation of current theory clears a breathing space for Faulkner and his readers between the fustier remnants of New Criticism and the excesses of post-structuralism. Each chapter opens with a balanced presentation of the genuine gifts contemporary theory has bestowed on our comprehension of a particular novel or problem in Faulkner criticism and then proceeds with a groundbreaking reading. ?The Politics of Incest? challenges older psychoanalytic interpretations of Faulkner's use of the incest motif, and ?Faulkner's Privacy? defends the novelist's difficulty or ?reticence? as an aesthetic resistance against the rude candor o