In Faulkner S Shadow

Author : Lawrence Wells
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496829931

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In Faulkner's Shadow by Lawrence Wells Pdf

What happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century? Lawrence Wells, author of In Faulkner’s Shadow: A Memoir, fills this lively tale with stories that answer just that. In 1972, Wells married Dean Faulkner, the only niece of William Faulkner, and slowly found himself lost in the Faulkner mystique. While attempting to rebel against the overwhelming influence of his in-laws, Wells had a front-row seat to the various rivalries that sprouted between his wife and the members of her family, each of whom dealt in different ways with the challenges and expectations of carrying on a literary tradition. Beyond the family stories, Wells recounts the blossoming of a literary renaissance in Oxford, Mississippi, after William Faulkner’s death. Both the town of Oxford and the larger literary world were at a loss as to who would be Faulkner’s successor. During these uncertain times, Wells and his wife established Yoknapatawpha Press and the quarterly literary journal the Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review. In his dual role as publisher and author, Wells encountered and befriended Larry Brown, Barry Hannah, Willie Morris, and many other writers. He became both participant and observer to the deeds and misdeeds of a rowdy collection of talented authors living in Faulkner’s shadow. Full of personal insights, this memoir features unforgettable characters and exciting behind-the-scene moments that reveal much about modern American letters and the southern literary tradition. It is also a love story about a courtship and marriage, and an ode to Dean Faulkner Wells and her family.

Author : Jeremy Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317209072

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Religious Feeling and Religious Commitment in Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, Werfel and Bernanos by Jeremy Smith Pdf

First published in 1988, the aim of this study is to define the role of religious meaning in the modern novel and to demonstrate that the novel can successfully express a religious feeling, but not a religious commitment. Through the analysis of four novels by Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, Werfel and Bernanos, the work explains why novels with a single definite commitment tend to be implausible and lacking in aesthetic unity. This book will be of interest to those studying religion in 19th Century literature.

Author : Peter Swiggart
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292769397

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The Art of Faulkner's Novels by Peter Swiggart Pdf

To say that the entirety of human experience can be a novelist’s theme is to voice an absurdity. But, as Peter Swiggart convincingly argues, Faulkner’s work can be viewed as an extraordinary attempt to transform the panorama of man’s social experience into thematic material. Faulkner’s two-dimensional characters, his rhetorical circumlocutions, and his technical experiments are efforts to achieve a dramatic focus upon material too unwieldy, at least in principle, for any kind of fictional condensation. Faulkner makes use of devices of stylization that apply to virtually every aspect of his successful novels. For example, the complex facts of Southern history and culture are reduced to the scale of a simplified and yet grandiose social mythology: the degeneration of the white aristocracy, the rise of Snopesism, and the white Southerner’s gradual recognition of his latent sense of racial guilt. Within Faulkner’s fictional universe, human psychology takes the form of absolute distinctions between puritan and nonpuritan characters, between individuals corrupted by moral rationality and those who are simultaneously free of moral corruption and social involvement. In this way Faulkner is able to create the impression of a comprehensive treatment of important social concerns and universal moral issues. Like Henry James, he makes as much as he can of clearly defined dramatic events, until they seem to echo the potential complexity and depth of situations outside the realm of fiction. When this technique is successful the reader is left with the impression that he knows a Faulkner character far better than he could know an actual person. At the same time, the character retains the atmosphere of complexity and mystery imposed upon it by Faulkner’s handling of style and structure. This method of characterization reflects Faulkner’s simplifications of experience and yet suggests the inadequacy of any rigid interpretation of actual behavior. The reader is supplied with special eyeglasses through which the tragedy of the South, as well as humanity’s general inhumanity to itself, can be viewed in a perspective of simultaneous mystery and symbolic clarity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : IND:30000099548525

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547114574

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Light in August by William Faulkner Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Light in August" by William Faulkner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Catherine D. Holmes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0815322771

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Annotations to William Faulkner's The Hamlet by Catherine D. Holmes Pdf

The annotations in this volume, originally published in 1996, intend to assist the reader of Faulkner's The Hamlet to understand obscure or difficult words and passages, including literary allusions, dialect, and historical events that Faulkner uses or alludes to. This title will be of great interest to students of literature.

Author : David L. Minter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 025207193X

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Faulkner's Questioning Narratives by David L. Minter Pdf

Focusing on the core novels, including The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Sanctuary, Light in August 2003, and Go Down, Moses, David Minter illuminates Faulkner's mature fiction: the tensions at play within the fiction and the creativity not only exhibited by the author but also extended to his characters and required of his readers.Faulkner's achievement, Minter contends, was in combining daring experiments in form with searching examinations of grave social, political, and moral problems. His novels change and expand the role of the reader by means of proliferating narratives that lead to questions rather than answers and to approximation rather than resolution. Minter shows how this process at times implicates the reader in the corruption and violence of the story, as when the reader is required to fill in--out of his or her own experience--the crucial gaps left in the narrative of Sanctuary.Positioning Faulkner on the cusp between modernist and postmodernist writing, Minter shows how his methods undercut the self-contained exclusivity of the New Criticism by integrating the world of the novel with the reader's experience of history and culture.

Author : Margaret Donovan Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American fiction
ISBN : OCLC:1195474883

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William Faulkner's Legacy by Margaret Donovan Bauer Pdf

Author : Kathleen Brooks
Publisher : Laurens Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781943805426

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Fierce Shadows by Kathleen Brooks Pdf

Dare Reigns is Charleston’s newest undercover ATF agent. Dare and his bosses believe a nearby resort is responsible for several deaths from tainted alcohol. As a favor to his friend, Marcy Davies, Dare agrees to a blind date with her grand-niece who lives in the area. What he didn’t tell her was having a date night at the resort would be the perfect cover for him to begin his investigation. Harper Faulkner’s heart had hardened long ago and her love was now reserved for the bar she owned and ran in the small town of Shadows Landing. This is why she knew the blind date her great-aunt had talked her into would go down in flames. Only the flames she felt weren’t from the disastrous date but from the date himself. When tragedy strikes during the date, Dare and Harper work side by side to save lives. Harper quickly earns Dare’s admiration and something much more dangerous . . . his interest. As Dare and Harper dig deeper into the deaths at the resort, they find it’s not only the resort guests in danger. The investigation leads them straight to Shadows Landing. But can Dare risk Harper’s life and his heart as they work to save the lives of thousands of unsuspecting potential victims?

Author : Annette Trefzer,Ann J. Abadie
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1604735619

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Faulkner's Sexualities by Annette Trefzer,Ann J. Abadie Pdf

William Faulkner grew up and began his writing career during a time of great cultural upheaval, especially in the realm of sexuality, where every normative notion of identity and relationship was being re-examined. Not only does Faulkner explore multiple versions of sexuality throughout his work, but he also studies the sexual dimension of various social, economic, and aesthetic concerns. In Faulkner's Sexualities, contributors query Faulkner's life and fiction in terms of sexual identity, sexual politics, and the ways in which such concerns affect his aesthetics. Given the frequent play with sexual norms and practices, how does Faulkner's fiction constitute the sexual subject in relation to the dynamics of the body, language, and culture? In what ways does Faulkner participate in discourses of masculinity and femininity, desire and reproduction, heterosexuality and homosexuality? In what ways are these discourses bound up with representations of race and ethnicity, modernity and ideology, region and nation? In what ways do his texts touch on questions concerning the racialization of categories of gender within colonial and dominant metropolitan discourses and power relations? Is there a Southern sexuality? This volume wrestles with these questions and relates them to theories of race, gender, and sexuality.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783849657505

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The Shadow Of A Dream by William Dean Howells Pdf

'The Shadow of a Dream' makes readers familiar with this rather peculiar development of a peculiar subject, and the tragic ending which is so much more pronounced than any other of the real facts of Howells' novels on which one can decisively lay a finger, as to give the reader an actual shock of horror. This bit of "the stuff that dreams are made of" but gives us an instance of the strange power of dream phantasies over our waking life — a power that more than one of us has felt, and sets us wondering likewise if there is, after all, any definite boundary between sanity and insanity, and whether it is really only a question of majority decision. The story is, of course, handled with all the delicate finish and fidelity of which Howells is along acknowledged master.

Author : Carl Rollyson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781504029919

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Uses of the Past in the Novels of William Faulkner by Carl Rollyson Pdf

Originally selected by Faulkner scholars Blotner and Litz for their series on the author, this pathbreaking monograph contains a comprehensive and provocative discussion of Faulkner’s historical vision. Drawing on the rich literature of historiography (including the writings of R. G. Collingwood and Herbert Butterfield), and on a wide-ranging body of scholarship on the historical novel (including discussions of Scott, Thackeray, and Conrad), Rollyson shrewdly probes Faulkner’s dynamic and changing uses of the past. Also taking advantage of his own work as a biographer, Rollyson has updated, revised, and expanded his original book—extending his dialogue with recent Faulkner critics.

Author : John Michael Corrigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009377829

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Faulkner's Cartographies of Consciousness by John Michael Corrigan Pdf

William Faulkner continues to be an author who is widely read, studied, and admired. This book provides a new and interdisciplinary account of Faulkner's legacy, arguing that his fiction is just as relevant today as it was during his own time. Indeed, Faulkner's far-reaching critique of his Southern heritage speaks directly to the anti-racism discourse of our own time and engages the dire threat to subjecthood in a technologically saturated civilization. Combining literary critique with network and complexity science, this study offers a new reading of William Faulkner as a novelist for the information age. Over the course of his career, we find an artist struggling to articulate the threat to human wellbeing in rapidly scaling social systems and gradually developing a hard-won humanism that affirms the individual and interpersonal life as a source of novelty and social change.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1528074289

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The Shadow of a Dream by William Dean Howells Pdf

Presents the full text of a book entitled "The Shadow of a Dream," by American author William Dean Howells (1837-1920) and provided online by Donna M. Campbell. Notes that the electronic edition is based on the Harper and Brothers 1890 edition of the book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : WISC:89055746234

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Supplement to Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf