Reading from the Guts: of Text and Disgust

The founder of the Saturday Review of Literature, Henry Seidel Canby, had strong opinions about William Faulkner’s novels, to say the least. Sanctuary, especially, ignited his ire. In a scathing essay entitled “The School of Cruelty,” published in March 1931, Canby deplored what he perceived as the...

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Main Author: Solveig Dunkel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2023-11-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/21484
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