JOURNAL ARTICLE

"One More Little Instant": Faulkner's A Fable and the Political-Theological Crisis in Interwar Europe.

  • Published In: Modernism/Modernity, 2024, v. 31, n. 2. P. 357 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Kuhn, Joseph 3 of 3

Abstract

Readers of William Faulkner's A Fable , his late novel about World War I, have long been puzzled by its amalgam of the political and theological. This article addresses this anomaly by situating A Fable within the intellectual context of Weimar political theology, a discourse of modernity not often brought into discussions of literary modernism. For Weimar political theologians, the recent war and its political aftermath had to be interpreted through foundational categories of theology rather than of secular history. Faulkner, inheriting the leftist variant of this Weimar thought, creates a messianic corporal and his Pauline apostle. They seek to create a new earth in profane times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Modernism/Modernity. 2024/04, Vol. 31, Issue 2, p357
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Military History and Science
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:1071-6068
  • DOI:10.1353/mod.2024.a947736
  • Accession Number:181733107
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