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Faulkner's Place
Michael MillgateCelebrating the centenary of William Faulkner's birth This volume brings together for the first time eight masterful essays on William Faulkner by one of his most eloquent and influential critics.
Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner
William FaulknerThis invaluable volume, which has been republished to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of Faulkner's birth, contains some of the greatest short fiction by a writer who defined the course of American literature.
The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner
Preview... and re-conceptualize our understanding of Faulkner's work beyond traditional national and regional frames of 204 Reading Faulkner in and Beyond Postcolonial Studies: “There Nowhere for Us to Go Now but East” Randy Boyagoda.
The Poltergeist in William Faulkner
John P. AndersonFaulkner couldn't write anything substantial for 7 months and then started this disturbing novel.The author demonstrates how Faulkner's own grief experience shaped the characters and the action and how he grounded part of his personal ...
A Faulkner Chronology
Michel GressetOffers a detailed outline of William Faulkner's life, including film assignments, publication of his works, and important correspondence A richly detailed outline of William Faulkner's life and career written by an eminent French scholar
William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist
Daniel Joseph SingalAmid all that has been published about William Faulkner, one subject--the nature of his thought--remains largely unexplored.
Faulkner and the short story
PreviewFor Faulkner's negotiations with Mencken, see SL, 48-^9, Blotner, Faulkner: A Biography, 267, and Hans H. Skei, William Faulkner: The Short Story Career ( Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1981), 65. 9. On the style of the story see Hans Skei, ...
Faulkner's Geographies
PreviewFor Genevieve Pitot's recollection of the heat in the SpratlingFaulkner garret, see W. Kenneth Holditch, “William Spratling, William Faulkner, and Other Famous Creoles,” Mississippi Quarterly 51.3 (Summer 1998); on the attempt to persuade ...
William Faulkner: The Contemporary Reviews
PreviewA collected selection of reviews of William Faulkner's writings from 1926 to 1962.
Faulkner and Film
PreviewRichard Godden, William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), 158. 13. John T. ... William Mazzarella, “The Myth of the Multitude, or, Who's Afraid of the Crowd?,” Critical Inquiry 36, no.
Reading Faulkner: Sanctuary : glossary and commentary
Edwin T. ArnoldA handbook for interpreting William Faulkner's most violent and shocking novel
Faulkner and the artist
PreviewSee David Minter, William Faulkner: His Life and Work (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980), 99-103. Minter distinguishes among Faulkner's early artist figures: "Elmer and Horace work in their art toward a female figure that is ...
The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner
PreviewJamesG.Watson. New York: Norton,1992. US Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner, ed. Joseph L. Blotner. New York: Random House, 1979. WP The Wild Palms.1939. New York: Vintage, 1966. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO WILLIAM ...
Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner
Noel PolkText and Context in Faulkner Noel Polk. Where. the. Comma. Goes. Editing. William. Faulkner. Although those who concern themselves with details are regarded as folk of limited intelligence, it seems to me that this part is essential, because it ...
Faulkner's Inheritance: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2005
Preview... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication Data Faulkner and yoknapatawpha Conference (32nd: 2005: university of mississippi) Faulkner's inheritance/Faulkner and yoknapatawpha, 2005; edited by Joseph r. urgo and Ann J. Abadie.
On William Faulkner
Eudora WeltyThe author of The Robber Bridegroom and many other novels and short story collections shares her insights into Faulkner's work, as well as letters and speeches she penned in defense of the great Southern writer, and even drawings she made ...
Light In August
William FaulknerA landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil.
William Faulkner
PreviewCOLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM FAULKNER New York, August 1950 London, October 1951 91. Horace Gregory, review, New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review 20 August 1950, 1, 12 Gregory (b. 1898), poet, translator of the ...
William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country
Cleanth BrooksContending that a complete understanding of Faulkner's writing cannot be had without a thorough grasp of fictional detail, Brooks gives careful attention to "what happens: In the Yoknapatawpha novels.
Genius of Place: William Faulkner's Triumphant Beginnings
Max PutzelIn an admirably thorough analysis Michel Gresset has shown how a prose sketch less than eight hundred words long, which Faulkner had published in the Mississippian in 1922, becomes "the first of a. 10. In Biography, I, 478, Blotner clarifies ...
Faulkner''s Media Romance
Julian MurphetThis book treats William Faulkner''s major fiction--from Flags in the Dust through to Absalom, Absalom!--to a searching reappraisal under the spotlight of a media-historical inquiry.
Absalom, Absalom!
William FaulknerWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'By universal consent, Faulkner stands as an equal in the sequence that includes Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain and Henry James' Harold Bloom Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are ...
Catalogue
Yale UniversityEdward Taylor Fairbanks, St.Johnsbury, Vt. 72 N. M. James Faulkner, Dansville, N. Y. 80 N. M. Lester Bradner Faulkner, Dansville, N. Y. 80 N. M. Samuel Dorr Faulkner, Dansville, N. Y. 15 s. Gilbert Otis Fay, Medway, Mass. 45 s. M. George ...
The Faulkner Journal
More editionsFeminine Rebellion and Mimicry in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying Amy Louise Wood Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying is one of Faulkner's most intriguing women characters because she is one of the few who tells her own story, in her own voice.
William Faulkner and Southern History
Joel WilliamsonEqually important, Williamson uses these stories to underscore themes of race, class, economics, politics, religion, sex and violence, idealism and Romanticism--"the rainbow of elements in human culture"--that reappear in Faulkner's work.
Critical Companion to William Faulkner
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Faulkner and Print Culture
PreviewAlthough hardly alone in the error, Hans Skei typifies the failure of Faulkner critics to credit the Ellery Queen reprints of “The Hound.” See Hans Skei, Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999), ...
Faulkner and the Ecology of the South
Preview... 2003 : University of Mississippi) Faulkner and the ecology of the South / Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2003; edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie. v. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: “Old man ”: shackles, ...
Outside the Southern Myth
Noel PolkNoel Polk is the author of Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner (University Press of Mississippi) and editor of the Reading Faulkner Series and of eleven Faulkner texts for Random House, The Library of America, and ...
Faulkner and His Contemporaries
PreviewJoseph R. Urgo, Ann J. Abadie ... Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference ( 29th:2002: University of Mississippi) Faulkner and his contemporaries/Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2002; edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie. p. cm.
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