William Faulkner And Mortality

Author : Ahmed Honeini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000413885

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William Faulkner and Mortality by Ahmed Honeini Pdf

William Faulkner and Mortality is the first full-length study of mortality in William Faulkner’s fiction. The book challenges earlier, influential scholarly considerations of death in Faulkner’s work that claimed that writing was his authorial method of ‘saying No to death’. Through close-readings of six key works – The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, "A Rose for Emily", Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Go Down, Moses – this book examines how Faulkner’s characters confront various experiences of human mortality, including grief, bereavement, mourning, and violence. The trauma and ambivalence caused by these experiences ultimately compel these characters to ‘say Yes to death’. The book makes a clear distinction between Faulkner’s quest for literary immortality through writing and the desire for death exhibited by the principal characters in the works analysed. William Faulkner and Mortality: A Fine Dead Sound offers a new paradigm for reading Faulkner’s oeuvre, and adds an alternative voice to a debate within Faulkner scholarship long thought to have ended.

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547114062

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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "As I Lay Dying" 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 : Theorists,William Faulkner
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Burial
ISBN : 0393614530

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As I Lay Dying by Theorists,William Faulkner Pdf

"This Norton Critical Edition of As I Lay Dying, second edition, features William Faulkner's experimental Southern novel with editorial annotations. This canonical twentieth-century work centers on the Bundren family following the death of matriarch Addie Bundren. The story uses fifteen separate and largely unreliable narrators to describe the arduous trip that the surviving members of the family make to bury Addie in Jefferson, Mississippi. The "Backgrounds and Contexts" section covers Faulkner, his work, and early receptions of the novel. A variety of theoretical essays can be found in the "Criticism" section on topics including grief, matricide, and narration. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included in this edition"--

Author : Robert W. Hamblin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781496841162

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Critical Essays on William Faulkner by Robert W. Hamblin Pdf

Critical Essays on William Faulkner compiles scholarship by noted Faulkner studies scholar Robert W. Hamblin. Ranging from 1980 to 2020, the twenty-one essays present a variety of approaches to Faulkner’s work. While acknowledging Faulkner as the quintessential southern writer—particularly in his treatment of race—the essays examine his work in relation to American and even international contexts. The volume includes discussions of Faulkner’s techniques and the psychological underpinnings of both the origin and the form of his art; explores how his writing is a means of “saying 'no' to death"; examines the intertextual linkages of his fiction with that of other writers like Shakespeare, Twain, Steinbeck, Warren, and Salinger; treats Faulkner’s use of myth and his fondness for the initiation motif; and argues that Faulkner’s film work in Hollywood is much better and of far greater value than most scholars have acknowledged. Taken as a whole, Hamblin’s essays suggest that Faulkner’s overarching themes relate to time and consequent change. The history of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha stretches from the arrival of the white settlers on the Mississippi frontier in the early 1800s to the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the 1940s. Caught in this world of continual change that produces a great degree of uncertainty and ambivalence, the Faulkner character (and reader) must weigh the traditions of the past with the demands of the present and the future. As Faulkner acknowledges, this process of discovery and growth is a difficult and sometimes painful one; yet, as Hamblin attests, to engage in that quest is to realize the very essence of what it means to be human.

Author : Daniel J. Singal
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080784831X

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William Faulkner by Daniel J. Singal Pdf

Through detailed analyses of individual texts, from the earliest poetry through Go Down, Moses, Singal traces Faulkner's attempt to liberate himself from the powerful and repressive Victorian culture in which he was raised by embracing the Modernist culture of the artistic avant-garde. Most important, it shows how Faulkner accommodated the conflicting demands of these two cultures by creating a set of dual identities - one, that of a Modernist author writing on the most daring and subversive issues of his day, and the other, that of a southern country gentleman loyal to the conservative mores of his community. It is in the clash between these two selves, Singal argues, that one finds the key to making sense of Faulkner.

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 034053835X

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Textplus - As i Lay Dying by William Faulkner Pdf

Author : John A. Murray
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0826330851

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Writing About Nature by John A. Murray Pdf

Originally published by the Sierra Club in 1995, this handbook covers genres, techniques, and publication issues for aspiring writers, scholars, and students who want to share their experiences in nature and the outdoors.

Author : Edmond L. Volpe
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815630395

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

The new guide, the first comprehensive book of its kind, offers analyses of all Faulkner's short stories, published and unpublished, that were not incorporated into novels or turned into chapters of a novel. Seventy-one stories receive individual critical analysis and evaluation. These discussions reveal the relationship of the stories to the novels and point up Faulkner's skills as a writer of short fiction. Although Faulkner often spoke disparagingly of the short story form and claimed that he wrote stories for moneywhich he didEdmond L. Volpe's study reveals that Faulkner could not escape even in this shorter form his incomparable fictional imagination nor his mastery of narrative structure and technique.

Author : WILLIAM FAULKNER.
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667626185

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AS I LAY DYING by WILLIAM FAULKNER. Pdf

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's harrowing account of the Bundre family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members—including Addie herself—the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos.

Author : Jay Watson,Ann J. Abadie
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496803993

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Fifty Years after Faulkner by Jay Watson,Ann J. Abadie Pdf

These essays examine issues across the wide arc of Faulkner's extraordinary career, from his aesthetic apprenticeship in the visual arts, to late-career engagements with the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and beyond, to the place of death in his artistic vision and the long, varied afterlives he and his writings have enjoyed in literature and popular culture. Contributors deliver stimulating reassessments of Faulkner's first novel, Soldiers' Pay, his final novel, The Reivers, and much of the important work between. Scholars explore how a broad range of elite and lowbrow cultural forms--plantation diaries, phonograph records, pulp magazines--shaped Faulkner's capacious imagination and how his works were translated into such media as film and modern dance. Essays place Faulkner's writings in dialogue with those of such fellow twentieth-century authors as W. E. B. Du Bois, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Hall, and Jayne Anne Phillips; locate his work in relation to African American intellectual currents and Global South artistic traditions; and weigh the rewards as well as the risks of dislodging Faulkner from the canonical position he currently occupies. While Faulkner studies has cultivated an image of the novelist as a neglected genius who toiled in obscurity, a look back fifty years to the final months of the author's life reveals a widely traveled and celebrated artist whose significance was framed in national and international as well as regional terms. Fifty Years after Faulkner bears out that expansive view, reintroducing us to a writer whose work retains its ability to provoke, intrigue, and surprise a variety of readerships.

Author : John T. Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107050389

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The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner by John T. Matthews Pdf

This new Companion offers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.

Author : David M. Craig
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814329128

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Tilting at Mortality by David M. Craig Pdf

This work considers Joseph Heller's career and examines each of his novels, including Closing Time. It pursues two complementary tracks: first it explores the evolution of Heller's treatment of human morality; and second, it delineates Heller's artistic developments as a novelist.

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307792174

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Light in August by William Faulkner Pdf

“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798775201500

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As I Lay Dying Novel by William Faulkner Illustrated by William Faulkner Pdf

The book is narrated by 15 different characters over 59 chapters. It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her poor, rural family's quest and motivations--noble or selfish--to honor her wish to be buried in her hometown of Jefferson, Mississippi. In the novel's first chapters, Addie is alive, though in ill health. Addie and others expect her to die soon, and she sits at a window watching as her firstborn child, Cash, builds her coffin. Anse, Addie's husband, waits on the porch, while their daughter, Dewey Dell, fans her mother in the July heat. The night after Addie dies a heavy rainstorm sets in; rivers rise and wash out bridges that the family will need to cross to get to Jefferson. The family's trek by wagon begins, with Addie's non-embalmed body in the coffin. Along the way, Anse and the five children encounter various difficulties. Stubborn Anse frequently rejects any offers of assistance, including meals or lodging, so at times the family goes hungry and sleeps in barns. At other times he refuses to accept loans from people, claiming he wishes to "be beholden to no man," thus manipulating the would-be lender into giving him charity as a gift not to be repaid. Jewel, Addie's middle child, tries to leave his dysfunctional family after Anse sells Jewel's most prized possession, his horse, yet Jewel cannot turn his back on them through the tribulations of the journey to Jefferson. Cash breaks a leg and winds up riding atop the coffin. He stoically refuses to admit to any discomfort, but the family eventually puts a makeshift cast of concrete on his leg. Twice, the family almost loses Addie's coffin--first, while crossing a river on a washed-out bridge (two mules are lost), and second, when a fire of suspicious origin starts in the barn where the coffin is being stored for a night.

Author : Eberhard Boecker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111595283

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William Faulkner's later novels in German by Eberhard Boecker Pdf

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.