A Study Of Place In Short Fiction By James Joyce William Faulkner And Sherwood Anderson

Author : Abd Alkareem Atteh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527568334

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A Study of Place in Short Fiction by James Joyce, William Faulkner and Sherwood Anderson by Abd Alkareem Atteh Pdf

This book sheds light on the modernist short story cycle and its pivotal role in representing and depicting place. With an ever-changing attitude towards place and what it means, modernist writers found in the short story cycle a suitable form to depict this sense of change. Drawing from a range of recent theories of the short story cycle and theories of place, this book highlights, in a comparative way, the role of the emergent short story genre and its seminal role in grasping and capturing a fragmented world through the various short and interconnected narratives and narrative strategies a short story cycle can accommodate. As such, this text contributes to the study of the modernist short story (cycle), American literature, Irish literature, comparative literature, and theories and studies of place.

Author : Forrest L. Ingram
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027918481

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Representative Short Story Cycles of the Twentieth Century by Forrest L. Ingram Pdf

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781604734829

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New Orleans Sketches by William Faulkner Pdf

In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry (The Marble Faun), had written a few book reviews, and had contributed sketches to the University of Mississippi student newspaper. He had served a stint in the Royal Canadian Air Corps and while working in a New Haven bookstore had become acquainted with the wife of the writer Sherwood Anderson. In his first six months in New Orleans, where the Andersons were living, Faulkner made his initial foray into serious fiction writing. Here in one volume are the pieces he wrote while in the French Quarter. These were published locally in the Times-Picayune and in the Double Dealer. The pieces in New Orleans Sketches broadcast seeds that would take root in later works. In their themes and motifs these sketches and stories foreshadow the intense personal vision and style that would characterize Faulkner’s mature fiction. As his sketches take on parallels with Christian liturgy and as they portray such characters as an idiot boy similar to Benjy Compson, they reveal evidence of his early literary sophistication. In praise of New Orleans Sketches, Alfred Kazin wrote in the New York Times Book Review that “the interesting thing for us now, who can see in this book the outline of the writer Faulkner was to become, is that before he had published his first novel he had already determined certain main themes in his work.” In his trailblazing introduction, Carvel Collins often called “Faulkner’s best-informed critic,” illuminates the period when the sketches were written as the time that Faulkner was making the transition from poet to novelist. “For the reader of Faulkner,” Paul Engle wrote in the Chicago Tribune, “the book is indispensable. Its brilliant introduction . . . is full both of helpful information . . . and of fine insights.” “We gain something more than a glimpse of the mind of a young genius asserting his power against a partially indifferent environment,” states the Book Exchange (London). “The long introduction . . . must rank as a major literary contribution to our knowledge of an outstanding writer: perhaps the greatest of our times.”

Author : James B. Carothers,William Faulkner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015009354286

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William Faulkner's Short Stories by James B. Carothers,William Faulkner Pdf

Author : Ann J. Abadie
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 161703388X

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Faulkner and the Short Story by Ann J. Abadie Pdf

Author : David Herman,Manfred Jahn,Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134458400

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Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory by David Herman,Manfred Jahn,Marie-Laure Ryan Pdf

The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific consequences, stories have come to be viewed as a basic human strategy for coming to terms with time, process, and change. However, the very predominance of narrative as a focus of interest across multiple disciplines makes it imperative for scholars, teachers, and students to have access to a comprehensive reference resource.

Author : Jennifer J. Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474423953

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American Short Story Cycle by Jennifer J. Smith Pdf

Explores the contradictory position of Arabic being both the official language and marginalized in Israel

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Mississippi
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123076924

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Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner Pdf

Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the stories in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound and the Fury. They deal with many of the themes found in the novels and with the subjects and characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner's. In "A Rose for Emily", the first of his stories to appear in a national magazine, a straightforward, neighborly narrator relates a tale of love, betrayal, murder, and implied necrophilia. The vicious Snopes family of The Hamlet trilogy turns up in "Barn Burning" (1938), about a son's response to the activities of his arsonist father. Other inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha County appearing here include Jason and Caddy Compson, childish witnesses to the terror of the pregnant black laundress in "That Evening Sun" (1930), who fears that her lover will murder her.

Author : Martin Kreiswirth
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820333618

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William Faulkner by Martin Kreiswirth Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314170

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Reader's Guide to Literature in English by Mark Hawkins-Dady Pdf

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Author : James Ferguson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0870496956

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Faulkner's Short Fiction by James Ferguson Pdf

This comprehensive overview of William Faulkner's short fiction is a systematic study of this body of work, which Faulkner produced over a period of forty years. The author examines Faulkner's struggle to master the special problems posed by the genre. The book is organized topically. A chronological survey of Faulkner's career as a writer of short fiction is followed by chapters devoted to aspects of Faulkner's craft: thematic patterns, points of view, and other technical and formal patterns. The author offers a frank assessment of Faulkner's failures and successes as a writer of short fiction.

Author : Charles Edward May,Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Short story
ISBN : UCSC:32106020063282

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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Henry James - Ezekiel Mphahlele by Charles Edward May,Frank Northen Magill Pdf

Profiles more than four hundred authors of short fiction from around the world, presenting biographical and bibliographic information and summaries of major works. Also includes a reference volume with a chronology; a bibliography; lists of major award winners; twenty-nine essays on short-fiction history, theory, and world cultures; and three indexes.

Author : Susan Mann
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015013932507

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The Short Story Cycle by Susan Mann Pdf

This guide is an excellent beginning for the study of a little-recognized genre and will be needed by all academic libraries. Choice During the 1970s many distinguished writers began experimenting with the short story cycle, a literary form that achieved prominence in the early decades of the century through such works as James Joyce's Dubliners and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. Despite the growing interest of both writers and readers, no theoretical work has been done on this genre in the past ten years. The Short Story Cycle provides a wide-ranging survey of the subject, offering detailed analyses of nine classic short story cycles and an annotated listing of over 120 others, many by contemporary authors. In addition, the introduction includes a history of the genre and its related forms as well as a discussion of conventions associated with the cycle. Short story cycles by Joyce, Anderson, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Welty, O'Connor, and Updike are described in individual chapters. These works illustrate the genre's diversity and vitality, ranging from cycles that are explicitly related through chronology, plot, and character to collections that reveal subtler, implicit unities. The author looks at the ways different writers use repeated or developed characters, themes, myth, imagery, setting, point of view, and plot or chronology to create the sense of a larger whole. Chapter bibliographies supply information on relevant critical writings as well as biographical and autobiographical materials. The volume concludes with an annotated listing of important twentieth-century short-story cycles by American, British, European, Canadian, Australian, Polish, Soviet, and Latin American writers.

Author : Jan Nordby Gretlund,Karl-Heinz Westarp
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1570032319

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The Late Novels of Eudora Welty by Jan Nordby Gretlund,Karl-Heinz Westarp Pdf

The Late Novels of Eudora Welty offers readings of two of the works considered to be Welty's most exciting both in innovative technique and postmodern existential statement. Fourteen new essays by internationally distinguished critics of Southern literature provide focused appraisals of Welty's last two novels: Losing Battles (1970), a provocative experiment in narration, and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Optimist's Daughter (1972), a profound comment on our time.

Author : Christopher MacGowan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119072775

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A History of American Literature 1900 - 1950 by Christopher MacGowan Pdf

A look at the first five decades of 20th century American literature, covering a wide range of literary works, figures, and influences A History of American Literature 1900-1950 is a current and well-balanced account of the main literary figures, connections, and ideas that characterized the first half of the twentieth century. In this readable, highly informative book, the author explores significant developments in American drama, fiction, and poetry, and discusses how the literature of the period influenced, and was influenced by, cultural trends in both the United States and abroad. Considering works produced during America’s rise to prominence on the world stage from both regional and international perspectives, MacGowan provides readers with keen insights into the literature of the period in relation to America’s transition from an agrarian nation to an industrial power, the racial and economic discrimination of Black and Native American populations, the greater financial and social independence of women, the economic boom of the 1920s, the Depression of the 1930s, the impact of world wars, massive immigration, political and ideological clashes, and more. Encompassing five decades of literary and cultural diversity in one volume, A History of American Literature 1900-1950: Covers American theater, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, magazines and literary publications, and popular media Discusses the ways writers dramatized the immense social, economic, cultural, and political changes in America throughout the first half of the twentieth century Explores themes and influences of Modernist poets, expatriate novelists, and literary publications founded by women and African-Americans Features the work of Black writers, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Jewish Americans A History of American Literature 1900-1950 is essential reading for all students in upper-level American literature courses as well as general readers looking to better understand the literary tradition of the United States.