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To the Ramparts of Infinity

Jack D. Elliott Jr.
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Author : Jack D. Elliott Jr.
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496841889

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To the Ramparts of Infinity by Jack D. Elliott Jr. Pdf

Before William Faulkner, there was Colonel William C. Falkner (1825–1889), the great-grandfather of the prominent and well-known Mississippi writer. The first biography of Falkner was a dissertation by the late Donald Duclos, which was completed in 1961, and while Faulkner scholars have briefly touched on the life of the Colonel due to his influence on the writer’s work and life, there have been no new biographies dedicated to Falkner until now. To the Ramparts of Infinity: Colonel W. C. Falkner and the Ripley Railroad seeks to fill this gap in scholarship and Mississippi history by providing a biography of the Colonel, sketching out the cultural landscape of Ripley, Mississippi, and alluding to Falkner’s influence on his great-grandson’s Yoknapatawpha cycle of stories. While the primary thrust of the narrative is to provide a sound biography on Falkner, author Jack D. Elliott Jr. also seeks to identify sites in Ripley that were associated with the Colonel and his family. This is accomplished in part within the main narrative, but the sites are specifically focused on, summarized, and organized into an appendix entitled “A Field Guide to Colonel Falkner’s Ripley.” There, the sites are listed along with old and contemporary photographs of buildings. Maps of the area, plotting military action as well as the railroads, are also included, providing essential material for readers to understand the geographical background of the area in this period of Mississippi history.

A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner

Edmond L. Volpe
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Author : Edmond L. Volpe
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815630018

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A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner by Edmond L. Volpe Pdf

A standard reference work in American literature, this volume is the most complete and detailed guide to the novels of William Faulkner. Edmond L. Volpe's aim is to reveal the greatness of Faulkner's art and the scope and profundity of his personal vision of life. He describes the dominant patterns in the fiction by isolating Faulkner's major themes and by analyzing his narrative techniques and style. He then offers extensive, individual interpretations of the nineteen novels, tracing the development of Faulkner's ideas, and includes a set of genealogical tables for each major family in the novels. Both scholarly and accessible:, this unique: treatment of Faulkner's novels—from Soldiers' Pay to The Reivers—helps the reader come to a thorough understanding of a great American writer.

To the Ramparts of Infinity

Jack D. Elliott
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Author : Jack D. Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1496841875

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An in-depth exploration of the life and works of the man who would one day serve as a model and influence to his great-grandson, William Faulkner

The Ghost on the Ramparts and Other Essays in the Humanities

Robert B. Heilman
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Author : Robert B. Heilman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780820332659

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The Ghost on the Ramparts and Other Essays in the Humanities by Robert B. Heilman Pdf

The Ghost on the Ramparts presents fourteen of R. B. Heilman's essays on the teaching of English and the profession of the humanities. These essays deal with such diverse topics as administrative ways and means, pedagogical shibboleths and heresies, uses and abuses of literacy, clichés of style, moot issues of history and criticism, and above all the nature of the humanities and their continuing significance. The persuasive discussions of all these subjects reflect the author's wide professional experience, his wit and wisdom, and his superb sense of style. The chairman of a distinguished English department for over twenty years, Heilman well knew the ins and outs of administration. He considers not only the practical problems of maintaining a large department but also the more complex matters involving a chairman's attitude toward deans, toward colleagues of many kinds, and toward oneself as a committed teacher and administrator. Also a literary critic of established reputation, Heilman's explicative side appears in most of these essays as he provides illustrative examples from many different sources while discussing the nature of history and criticism in the humanities. The unity of these essays is no less impressive than the mind of their maker, who instances a remarkable capacity for seeing life in the humanities steadily and whole.

Faulkner's Media Romance

Julian Murphet
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Author : Julian Murphet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190664268

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Faulkner's Media Romance by Julian Murphet Pdf

This 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. It proposes that Faulkner's inveterate attraction to the paradigms of romance was disciplined and masked by the recurrent use of metaphorical figures borrowed from the new media ecology. Faulkner dressed up his romance materials in the technological garb of radio, gramophony, photography, and cinema, along with the transportational networks of road and air that were being installed in the 1920s. His modernism emerges from a fraght but productive interplay between his anachronistic predilection for chivalric chichés and his extraordinarily knowledgeable interest in the most up-to-date media institutions and forms. Rather than see Faulkner as a divided author, who worked for money in the magazines and studios while producing his serious fiction in despite of their symbolic economies, this study demonstrates how profoundly his mature art was shot through with the figures and dynamics of the materials he publicly repudiated. The result is a richer and more nuanced understanding of the dialectics of his art.

Becoming Faulkner

Philip Weinstein
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Author : Philip Weinstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195341539

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Becoming Faulkner by Philip Weinstein Pdf

A biography of the celebrated American novelist explores how the events of Faulkner's life and his personal struggles influenced the direction and nature of his writings.

Fictions of Infinity

Martin Riedelsheimer
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Author : Martin Riedelsheimer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110712407

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Fictions of Infinity by Martin Riedelsheimer Pdf

This study traces the connection of infinity and Levinasian ethics in 21st-century fiction. It tackles the paradox of how infinity can be (re-)presented in the finite space between the covers of a book and finds an answer that combines conceptual metaphor theory with concepts from classical narratology and beyond, such as mise en abyme, textual circularity, intertextuality or omniscient narration. It argues that texts with such structures may be conceptualised as infinite via Lakoff and Núñez’s Basic Metaphor of Infinity. The catachrestic transfer of infinity from structure to text means that the texts themselves are understood to be infinite. Taking its cue from the central role of the infinite in Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics, the function of such ‘fictions of infinity’ turns out to be ethical: infinite textuality disrupts reading patterns and calls into question the reader’s spontaneity to interpret. This hypothesis is put to the test in detailed readings of four 21st-century novels, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods, Ian McEwan’s Saturday and John Banville’s The Infinities. This book thus combines ethical criticism with structural aesthetics to uncover ethical potential in fiction.

Studying and Teaching W.C. Falkner, William Faulkner, and Digital Literacy

Koichi Fujino
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Author : Koichi Fujino
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498547482

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Studying and Teaching W.C. Falkner, William Faulkner, and Digital Literacy by Koichi Fujino Pdf

This book explores the ways to teach the literary works of William Clark Falkner and William Faulkner to ESL (English as a Second Language) students in today’s digital environment. William Faulkner’s great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, wrote romantic literary works, and William Faulkner critically uses the motifs of his great-grandfather’s works to establish his literary world. Applying Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogical theory, this book theoretically explains how these two authors imagine the social formations of the American South differently in their literary works. The coined term, social combination—which is defined as the individuals’ mutual effort to have equal relationships for a certain time—is used as a key term to examine how these two authors depict the characters’ personal relationships. William Faulkner employs his characters’ social combination as a resistance against the American South’s romantic illusions that are represented by William Clark Falkner’s literary works. William Faulkner’s historical perspective is beneficial for today’s ESL students, who explore their new egalitarian formations in their digitally expanded world. The last part of this study outlines how an American literary teacher can connect the works of William Clark Falkner and William Faulkner when teaching ESL students by using today’s digital environment. Using three digital platforms—Moodle, WordPress, and Google Drive—a teacher composes egalitarian relationships among class members and inspires students’ autonomous discussion on these two authors’ works. Through these activities, ESL students are expected to comprehend that the literature of the American South is not only the historical development of the foreign region, but the phenomenon that is connected to their own social formations.

The Novel Art

Mark McGurl
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Author : Mark McGurl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691214832

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Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. Examining the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate the status of the novel, its sources, paradoxes, and reverberations into the twentieth century, Mark McGurl presents a more coherent and wide-ranging account of the development of American modernist fiction than ever before. Moving deftly from James to Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, and Djuna Barnes among others, McGurl argues that what unifies this diverse group of ambitious writers is their agonized relation to a middling genre rarely included in discussions of the fine arts. He concludes that the new product, despite its authors' desire to distinguish it from popular forms, never quite forsook the intimacy the genre had long cultivated with the common reader. Indeed, the ''art novel'' sought status within the mass market, and among its prime strategies was a promotion of the mind as a source of value in an economy increasingly dependent on mental labor. McGurl also shows how modernism's obsessive interest in simple-mindedness revealed a continued concern with the masses even as it attempted to use this simplicity to produce a heightened sophistication of form. Masterfully argued and set in elegant prose, The Novel Art provides a rich new understanding of the fascinating road the American novel has taken from being an artless enterprise to an aesthetic one.

Infinity's Shore

David Brin
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Author : David Brin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504064699

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Infinity's Shore by David Brin Pdf

A once peaceful planet of refugees faces complete annihilation in this hard science fiction sequel to Brightness Reef. Book Two in the Uplift Storm Trilogy It’s illegal to occupy the planet Jijo, but six castaway races have managed to coexist there for some time. They’ve successfully hidden from watchful law enforcers of the Five Galaxies—until now . . . After making an amazing discovery far away—a derelict armada whose mere existence triggered interstellar war—the Terran exploration vessel Streaker and its crew of humans and dolphins arrive at Jijo in search of sanctuary from the Galactic forces out to destroy them. But they were followed. As behemoth Galactic starships descend upon Jijo, heroic—and terrifying—choices must be made. Together, human and alien settlers must choose whether to fight the invaders or join them. The crew of the Streaker, meanwhile, discovers something that just might save Jijo and its inhabitants . . . or destroy every last one of them. “Well paced, immensely complex, highly literate . . . Superior SF.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An imaginative drama of excitement and wonder . . . The sheer virtuosity of the prose alone makes this book worth reading.” —SF Site

Flags in the Dust

William Faulkner
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Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307946768

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Flags in the Dust by William Faulkner Pdf

The complete text of Faulkner’s third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris.

William Faulkner and the Tangible Past

Thomas S. Hines,Thomas Spight Hines
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Author : Thomas S. Hines,Thomas Spight Hines
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520202937

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William Faulkner and the Tangible Past by Thomas S. Hines,Thomas Spight Hines Pdf

"This jewel of a book is a great pleasure to read. In point of fact, it is not a book one reads but savors."--Narciso G. Menocal, author of Architecture as Nature

Every Day by the Sun

Dean Faulkner Wells
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Author : Dean Faulkner Wells
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307591067

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Every Day by the Sun by Dean Faulkner Wells Pdf

In Every Day by the Sun, Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted mur­derers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel Prize winner, arguably the most important Ameri­can novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her family—in particular her uncle William, or “Pappy,” with whom she shared color­ful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences. This deeply felt memoir explores the close re­lationship between Dean’s uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty-eight during an air show four months be­fore she was born. It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Dean’s tragic death, William helped to raise his niece. He paid for her education, gave her away when she was married, and maintained a unique relationship with her throughout his life. From the 1920s to the early civil rights era, from Faulkner’s winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature to his death in 1962, Every Day by the Sun explores the changing culture and society of Oxford, Mis­sissippi, while offering a rare glimpse of a notori­ously private family and an indelible portrait of a national treasure.

Approaches to Lucretius

Donncha O'Rourke
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Author : Donncha O'Rourke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108421966

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Approaches to Lucretius by Donncha O'Rourke Pdf

Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.

Sins of Laria, Book 4 of the Laria Saga (Hardcover)

Daniel Hellmund
Sins of Laria Book 4 of the Laria Saga Hardcover Book PDF

Author : Daniel Hellmund
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781300573210

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Sins of Laria, Book 4 of the Laria Saga (Hardcover) by Daniel Hellmund Pdf

Six years following the Eternal War's caustic end, Laria finds itself with the four races unified under the banner of a new High King. Seeking to prove the Doream legend's authenticity once and for all, the search for the holy Adelpha Epsilian becomes an obsession. Faced with scattered demons, opposing religious cults, and the ever-present, ever-threatening Sions, Doream's decrees affect the entire world as another global war blazes on the horizon. Although not along the lines of ethnicity, the new conflict is founded on religious tension between Doream's young faith and the Sion's old dogmas. To make matters worse, Doream's wife carries the heir to the throne when a strange illness befalls her. Many, including the king's closest allies, wonder if he can balance his personal trials as well as the needs of his people as Laria collapses. All secrets are revealed as the High King confronts his greatest fear; doubt.