Faulkner And Mystery

Author : Annette Trefzer,Ann J. Abadie
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781626741539

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Faulkner and Mystery by Annette Trefzer,Ann J. Abadie Pdf

Faulkner and Mystery presents a wide spectrum of compelling arguments about the role and function of mystery in William Faulkner’s fiction. Twelve new essays approach the question of what can be known and what remains a secret in the narratives of the Nobel laureate. Scholars debate whether or not Faulkner’s work attempts to solve mysteries or celebrate the enigmas of life and the elusiveness of truth. Scholars scrutinize Faulkner’s use of the contemporary crime and detection genre as well as novels that deepen a plot rather than solve it. Several essays are dedicated to exploring the narrative strategies and ideological functions of Faulkner’s take on the detective story, the classic “whodunit.” Among Faulkner’s novels most interested in the format of detection is Intruder in the Dust, which assumes a central role in this essay collection. Other contributors explore the thickening mysteries of racial and sexual identity, particularly the enigmatic nature of his female and African American characters. Questions of insight, cognition, and judgment in Faulkner’s work are also at the center of essays that explore his storytelling techniques, plot development, and the inscrutability of language itself.

Author : Annette Trefzer,Ann J. Abadie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1496843398

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Faulkner and Mystery by Annette Trefzer,Ann J. Abadie Pdf

Essays that illuminate crime stories, whodunits, and quandaries in the Nobel Laureate's fiction

Author : Annette Trefzer,Ann J. Abadie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : LITERARY COLLECTIONS
ISBN : 1628460296

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Faulkner and Mystery by Annette Trefzer,Ann J. Abadie Pdf

Essays that illuminate crime stories, whodunits, and quandaries in the Nobel laureate's fiction

Author : Katherine Faulkner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982150334

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Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner Pdf

This “gloriously tangled game of cat and mouse” (Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author) explores the anxieties of impending motherhood, unreliable friendship, and the high price of keeping secrets. Perfect for fans of the thrillers by Paula Hawkins and Robyn Harding. In this “outstanding debut thriller” (Booklist, starred review), Helen’s idyllic life—handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house, and cherished baby on the way—begins to change the day she attends her first prenatal class. There, she meets Rachel, an unpredictable single mother-to-be who doesn’t seem very maternal: she smokes, drinks, and professes little interest in parenthood. Still, Helen is drawn to her. Maybe Rachel just needs a friend. And to be honest, Helen’s a bit lonely herself. At least Rachel is fun to be with. She makes Helen laugh, invites her confidences, and distracts her from her fears. But her increasingly erratic behavior is unsettling. And Helen’s not the only one who’s noticed. Her friends and family begin to suspect that her strange new friend may be linked to their shared history in unexpected ways. When Rachel threatens to expose a past crime that could destroy all of their lives, it becomes clear that there are more than a few secrets laying beneath the broad-leaved trees and warm lamplight of Greenwich Park.

Author : Carolyn Wells
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338095794

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Faulkner's Folly by Carolyn Wells Pdf

'Faulkner's Folly' is a mystery-drama novel written by Carolyn Wells. The story unfolds in Faulkner's Folly, which was described as the realized dream of the architect who had been its original owner. It was a perfect example of the type known in England as Georgian and in our own country as Colonial, a style inspired by the Italian disciples of Palladio, and as developed by Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren, it had seemed to James Faulkner to possess the joint qualities of comfort and dignity that made it ideal for a home. The house was enormous, the rooms perfectly proportioned, and the staircase had been the architect's joy and delight. It showed the wooden wainscoting, which was handed down from the Jacobeans; broad, deep steps with low risers, large, square landings, newels with mitred tops and rather plain balusters. But the carved wood necessary to carry out the plans, the great problems of lighting, the necessity for columned galleries and long, arched and recessed windows, together with the stupendous outlay for appropriate grounds and gardens, overtaxed the available funds and Faulkner's Folly, in little more than two years after its completion, was sold for less than its intrinsic value.

Author : Carolyn Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798559201290

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Faulkner's Folly by Carolyn Wells Pdf

The countryside was in a tumult. A murder mystery at Faulkner's Folly, of all places in theworld! Rensselaer Park, the aristocratic Long Island settlement, of which the celebratedhouse was the star exhibit, could scarcely believe its ears as the news flew about. And thecriminal? Public opinion settled at once on an intruder, either burglarious or inimical. Ofcourse, a man of Eric Stannard's position and personality had enemies, as well as friends, from Paris, France, to Paris, Maine. Equally, of course, his enormous collection of valuableart works and even more valuable jewels would tempt robbers.But the vague rumors as to his wife or that darling little model girl being implicated, wereabsurd. To be sure, the installation of Miss Vernon as a house guest was a fling in the face ofconventions, but Eric Stannard was a law unto himself; and, too, Mrs. Stannard had alwaysintroduced the girl as her friend.The Stannards were comparatively new people at The Park, but Mrs. Faulkner, whosehusband had built the Folly, was even now visiting there, and her sanction was enough forthe community. It would, one must admit, be thrillingly exciting to suspect a woman in thecase, but it was too impossible. No, it was without doubt, a desperate marauder.Thus the neighbours.But the Police thought differently. The report of the Post Patrolman who first appearedupon the scene of the tragedy included a vivid description of the demeanour of the twoladies; and the whole force, from the Inspector down, determined to discover which wasguilty. To them the death of Eric Stannard was merely a case, but from the nature of thingsit was, or would become, a celebrated case, and as such, they were elated over theirconnection with it.In due course, the Coroner's Inquest took place, and was held in the big studio where EricStannard had met his death

Author : Kathryn Lin
Publisher : Kathryn Lin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Olivia Faulkner Mysteries Box Set Vol 1: Books 0.5-3 by Kathryn Lin Pdf

A Pie to Vie For Olivia planned on a summer road trip across the country, but she ends up stuck in her childhood home in Grand Arbor Township when her camper van breaks down. Good thing there's a $1000 grand prize in this year's Grand Arbor Cherry Festival Pie Baking Contest... The problem is--somebody is determined to make sure nobody wins. Can Olivia find out who's sabotaging the contest or will this year be the last cherry festival in Grand Arbor? Maple Syrup and Murder All Olivia Faulkner wanted when she left Chicago and returned to her childhood home in Grand Arbor was a fresh start and a safer life for her daughter, Vi. But when a professor is murdered with a poisoned maple bacon pastry from her family café, Olivia Faulkner must dive deep into a murder investigation and solve the mystery. With the help of her daughter, an old flame, and the nosy old ladies who stitch and gossip at the café, can she catch the real killer before gossip spreads through tiny Grand Arbor and her business is ruined? Dead as a Donut Business at Olivia Faulkner’s family café is finally picking up, but when she stumbles on a dead businessman holding a box of her donuts, she is thrown headfirst into another murder investigation. Meanwhile, there is a new lifestyle mall in Grand Arbor that is driving family-owned shops like hers out of business. Armed with the help of three gossipy old ladies, her mischievous cat, and an old love, Olivia sets out to solve the mystery. On top of all this, Olivia has to juggle sleuthing, baking, and her daughter’s interview to get into a prestigious private school. Can she find the killer before her life in Grand Arbor crumbles to pieces? Raspberry Tart Revenge Olivia Faulkner's life is Grand Arbor is finally looking up. Cheesecakes are flying out of her online store faster than she can bake them and her daughter, Vi is one step closer to her dreams of going to Harvard. When an admissions officer at Vi's new school winds up dead, all of Olivia's plans begin to unravel. To complicate things further, while investigating the murder, Olivia makes a startling discovery about the disappearance of her sister. Can Olivia solve the murder and find the truth behind the decades old family mystery, or will she become the next victim?

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Austin : University of Texas Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015032034574

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Vision in Spring by William Faulkner Pdf

Author : Charles Chappell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1573091669

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Detective Dupin Reads William Faulkner by Charles Chappell Pdf

This work is a fascinating blend literary interpretation in narrational form. Within the framework of a fiction a critical study takes shape that is based on solid up to date research (ninety-six entries appear in list of work cited) and will be of value to both serious Faulkner scholars and general academic readers alike, particularly those interested in mystery and detective fiction, southern literature, the works of Poe and, of course, the Yoknapatawpha novels.

Author : Jay Watson,James G. Thomas, Jr.
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496822550

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Faulkner and Money by Jay Watson,James G. Thomas, Jr. Pdf

Contributions by Ted Atkinson, Gloria J. Burgess, David A. Davis, Sarah E. Gardner, Richard Godden, Ryan Heryford, Robert Jackson, Gavin Jones, Mary A. Knighton, Peter Lurie, John T. Matthews, Myka Tucker-Abramson, Michael Wainwright, Jay Watson, and Michael Zeitlin The matter of money touches a writer's life at every point—in the need to make ends meet; in dealings with agents, editors, publishers, and bookstores; and in the choice of subject matter and the minutiae of imagined worlds. William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha was no exception. The people and communities he wrote about stayed deeply entangled in personal, national, and even global networks of industry, commerce, and finance, as did the author himself. Faulkner's economic biography often followed, but occasionally bucked, the tumultuous economic trends of the twentieth century. The Faulkner met within these pages is among modern literature's most incisive and encyclopedic critics of what one contemporary theorist calls the madness of economic reason. Faulkner and Money brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the economic contexts of Faulkner's life and work, to follow the proverbial money toward new insights into the Nobel Laureate and new questions about his art. Essays in this collection address economies of debt and gift giving in Intruder in the Dust; the legacies of commodity fetishism in Sanctuary and of twentieth-century capitalism's financial turn in The Town; the pegging of self-esteem to financial acumen in the career of The Sound and the Fury's Jason Compson; the representational challenges posed by poverty and failure in Faulkner's Frenchman's Bend tales; the economics of regional readership and the Depression-era literary market; the aesthetic, monetary, and psychological rewards of writing for Hollywood; and the author's role as benefactor to an aspiring African American college student in the 1950s.

Author : T. R. Pearson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101126936

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A Short History of a Small Place by T. R. Pearson Pdf

Marvelously funny, bittersweet, and beautifully evocative, the original publication of A Short History of a Small Place announced the arrival of one of our great Southern voices. Although T. R. Pearson's Neely, North Carolina, doesn't appear on any map of the state, it has already earned a secure place on the literary landscape of the South. In this introduction to Neely, the young narrator, Louis Benfield, recounts the tragic last days of Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew, a local spinster and former town belle who, after years of total seclusion, returns flamboyantly to public view-with her pet monkey, Mr. Britches. Here is a teeming human comedy inhabited by some of the most eccentric and endearing characters ever encountered in literature.

Author : Jay Watson,Jaime Harker,James G. Thomas
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496812339

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Faulkner and Print Culture by Jay Watson,Jaime Harker,James G. Thomas Pdf

With contributions by: Greg Barnhisel, John N. Duvall, Kristin Fujie, Sarah E. Gardner, Jaime Harker, Kristi Rowan Humphreys, Robert Jackson, Mary A. Knighton, Jennifer Nolan, Carl Rollyson, Tim A. Ryan, Jay Satterfield, Erin A. Smith, and Yung-Hsing Wu William Faulkner's first ventures into print culture began far from the world of highbrow New York publishing houses such as Boni & Liveright or Random House and little magazines such as the Double-Dealer. With that diverse publishing history in mind, this collection explores Faulkner's multifaceted engagements, as writer and reader, with the United States and international print cultures of his era, along with how these cultures have mediated his relationship with various twentieth- and twenty-first-century audiences. These essays address the place of Faulkner and his writings in the creation, design, publishing, marketing, reception, and collecting of books, in the culture of twentieth-century magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals (from pulp to avant-garde), in the history of modern readers and readerships, and in the construction and cultural politics of literary authorship. Several contributors focus on Faulkner's sensational 1931 novel Sanctuary to illustrate the author's multifaceted relationship to the print ecology of his time, tracing the novel's path from the wellsprings of Faulkner's artistic vision to the novel's reception among reviewers, tastemakers, intellectuals, and other readers of the early 1930s. Other essayists discuss Faulkner's early notices, the Saturday Review of Literature, Saturday Evening Post, men's magazines of the 1950s, and Cold War modernism.

Author : Acree Graham Macam
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554989904

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The King of the Birds by Acree Graham Macam Pdf

A young girl brings home a peacock, but he refuses to show off his colorful tail! Inspired by the life of Flannery O'Connor. In this picture book, inspired by the life of Flannery O’Connor, a young fan of fowl brings home a peacock to be the king of her collection, but he refuses to show off his colorful tail. The girl goes to great lengths to encourage the peacock to display his plumage — she throws him a party, lets him play in the fig tree, feeds him flowers and stages a parade — all to no avail. Then she finally stumbles on the perfect solution. When she introduces the queen of the birds — a peahen — to her collection, the peacock immediately displays his glorious shimmering tail. This delightful story, full of humor and heart, celebrates the legacy of a great American writer. Includes an author’s note about Flannery O’Connor. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

Author : Carl Rollyson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813944418

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The Life of William Faulkner by Carl Rollyson Pdf

By the end of volume 1 of The Life of William Faulkner ("A filling, satisfying feast for Faulkner aficianados"— Kirkus), the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, self-mythologizing bohemian to the author of some of the most innovative and enduring literature of the century, including The Sound and the Fury and Light in August. The second and concluding volume of Carl Rollyson’s ambitious biography finds Faulkner lamenting the many threats to his creative existence. Feeling, as an artist, he should be above worldly concerns and even morality, he has instead inherited only debts—a symptom of the South’s faded fortunes—and numerous mouths to feed and funerals to fund. And so he turns to the classic temptation for financially struggling writers—Hollywood. Thus begins roughly a decade of shuttling between his home and family in Mississippi—lifeblood of his art—and the backlots of the Golden Age film industry. Through Faulkner’s Hollywood years, Rollyson introduces such personalities as Humphrey Bogart and Faulkner’s long-time collaborator Howard Hawks, while telling the stories behind films such as The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not. At the same time, he chronicles with great insight Faulkner's rapidly crumbling though somehow resilient marriage and his numerous extramarital affairs--including his deeply felt, if ultimately doomed, relationship with Meta Carpenter. (In his grief over their breakup, Faulkner—a dipsomaniac capable of ferocious alcoholic binges—received third-degree burns when he passed out on a hotel-room radiator.) Where most biographers and critics dismiss Faulkner’s film work as at best a necessary evil, at worst a tragic waste of his peak creative years, Rollyson approaches this period as a valuable window on his artistry. He reveals a fascinating, previously unappreciated cross-pollination between Faulkner’s film and literary work, elements from his fiction appearing in his screenplays and his film collaborations influencing his later novels—fundamentally changing the character of late-career works such as the Snopes trilogy. Rollyson takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the composition of Absalom, Absalom!, widely considered Faulkner’s masterpiece, as well as the film adaptation he authored—unproduced and never published— Revolt in the Earth. He reveals how Faulkner wrestled with the legacy of the South—both its history and its dizzying racial contradictions—and turned it into powerful art in works such as Go Down, Moses and Intruder in the Dust. Volume 2 of this monumental work rests on an unprecedented trove of research, giving us the most penetrating and comprehensive life of Faulkner and providing a fascinating look at the author's trajectory from under-appreciated "writer's writer" to world-renowned Nobel laureate and literary icon. In his famous Nobel speech, Faulkner said what inspired him was the human ability to prevail. In the end, this beautifully wrought life shows how Faulkner, the man and the artist, embodies this remarkable capacity to endure and prevail.

Author : Michael Wainwright
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030688721

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Faulkner’s Ethics by Michael Wainwright Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of ethics in the canon of William Faulkner. As the fundamental framework for its analysis of Faulkner’s fiction, this study draws on The Methods of Ethics, the magnum opus of the utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick. While Faulkner’s Ethics does not claim that Faulkner read Sidgwick’s work, this book traces Faulkner’s moral sensitivity. It argues that Faulkner’s language is a moral medium that captures the ways in which people negotiate the ethical demands that life places on them. Tracing the contours of this evolving medium across six of the author’s major novels, it explores the basic precepts set out in The Methods of Ethics with the application of more recent contributions to moral philosophy, especially those of Jacques Derrida and Derek Parfit.