William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing

William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing PDF Author: Jonathan Berliner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009222325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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This book examines materials of writing in William Faulkner's novels and stories from parchment to typewriters, letters to telegrams.

William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing

William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing PDF Author: Jonathan Berliner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009222325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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This book examines materials of writing in William Faulkner's novels and stories from parchment to typewriters, letters to telegrams.

William Faulkner. The making of a novelist

William Faulkner. The making of a novelist PDF Author: Martin Kreiswirth
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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William Faulkner in Context

William Faulkner in Context PDF Author: John T. Matthews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107050375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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William Faulkner in Context explores the environment that conditioned Faulkner's creative work and offers readers a framework in which to better understand this challenging writer.

Fiction's Inexhaustible Voice

Fiction's Inexhaustible Voice PDF Author: Stephen M. Ross
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820313757
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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William Faulkner recognized voice as one of the most distinctive and powerful elements in fiction when he delivered his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, describing the last sound at the end of the world as man's "puny inexhaustible voice, still talking." As a testimonial of an artist's faith in his art, the speech raised the value of voice to its highest reach for man, as "one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail." In Fiction's Inexhaustible Voice, Stephen Ross explores the nature of voice in William Faulkner's fiction by examining the various modes of speech and writing that his texts employ. Beginning with the proposition that voice is deeply involved in the experience of reading Faulkner, Ross uses theoretically grounded notions of voice to propose new ways of explaining how Faulkner's novels and stories express meaning, showing how Faulkner used the affective power of voice to induce the reader to forget the silent and originless nature of written fiction. Ross departs from previous Faulkner criticism by proceeding not text-by-text or chronologically but by construction a workable taxonomy which defines the types of voice in Faulkner's fiction: phenomenal voice, a depicted event or object within the represented fictional world; mimetic voice, the illusion that a person is speaking; psychic voice, one heard only in the mind and overheard only through fiction's omniscience; and oratorical voice, an overtly intertextual voice which derives from a discursive practice--Southern oratory--recognizable outside the boundaries of any Faulkner text and identifiable as part of Faulkner's biographical and regional heritage. In Faulkner's own experience, listening was important. As he once confided to Malcolm Cowley, "I listen to the voices, and when I put down what the voices say, it's right." In Fiction's Inexhaustible Voice, Ross conducts a careful analysis of this fundamental source of power in Faulkner's fiction, concluding that the preponderance of voice imagery, represented talking, verbalized thought, and oratorical rhetoric and posturing makes the novels and stories fundamentally vocal. They derive their energy from the play of voices on the imaginative field of written language.

Faulkner at West Point

Faulkner at West Point PDF Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578064458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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A new edition of a classic and a commemoration of William Faulkner's visit to West Point forty years ago

The Town

The Town PDF Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030779198X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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This is the second volume of Faulkner’s trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South. Like its predecessor The Hamlet, and its successor The Mansion, The Town is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from being read with the other two. The story of Flem Snopes’ ruthless struggle to take over the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, the book is rich in typically Faulknerian episodes of humor and of profundity.

Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction

Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction PDF Author: Doreen Fowler
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628468599
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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In 1944, William Faulkner wrote to Malcolm Cowley, “I'm telling the same story over and over which is myself and the world. That's all a writer ever does, he tells his own biography in a thousand different terms.” With these words, Faulkner suggests that what changes in the course of his prolific novel-writing career is not so much the content but the style, “the thousand different terms” of his fiction. The essays in Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction, first presented at the 1987 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi, focus on Faulkner's narrative inventiveness, on how Faulkner, like his character Benjy in The Sound and the Fury, relentlessly kept “trying to say.” The contributors, authorities on Faulkner's narrative, offer a wide variety of critical approaches to Faulkner's fiction-writing process. Cleanth Brooks, for example, applies the strategies of New Criticism to Faulkner's rendering of the heroic and pastoral modes; Judith L. Sensibar attempts to locate biographical sources for repeated Faulknerian paradigms; and Philip M. Weinstein draws on the theories of the Marxist Althusser and the French psychoanalyst Lacan. The topics examined are similarly wide-ranging.

Oprah's Book Club 2005 Summer Selection a Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The

Oprah's Book Club 2005 Summer Selection a Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The PDF Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Vintage International
ISBN: 9780307275325
Category : African American women cooks
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Title of reader's guide: William Faulkner: a reading experience.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner PDF Author: William V. O'Connor
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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Briefly analyzes the literary achievements of the American writer whose fictional works depict the moral decay of the South

William Faulkner

William Faulkner PDF Author: Martin Kreiswirth
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820333611
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Martin Kreiswirth challenges the accepted notion that The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner's fourth and possibly finest novel, represented an unprecedented turning point in the writer's literary career, a quantum leap in his imaginative development. He argues that Faulkner's earlier work, both published and unpublished, not only distinctly prefigured techniques, narrative strategies, and creative procedures used in the writing of his fourth novel, but also provided him with materials and methods to which he could return. Viewed in the context of his literary development, the author says, the writing of The Sound and the Fury constituted for Faulkner not so much a mysterious leap as a moment of initiation; it marks that crucial point in his career at which he revisited his past, saw it anew, and reworked it into his future. Focusing his attention on the works that preceded The Sound and the Fury--and specifically on the strategies and conventions that informed those works--Kreiswirth reassesses Faulkner's imaginative growth and offers new insights into the place and significance of The Sound and the Fury itself. He provides detailed analyses of such works as the New Orleans short fiction, the abandoned novel Elmer, Mosquitoes, Flags in the Dust, and particularly Faulkner's neglected first novel, Soldier's Pay. These texts are reexamined not only as anticipations of later developments but as literary achievements in their own right.