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Abe Snopes is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his...
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Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories provides readers with an introduction to Faulkner as a short story writer and offers close readings of twelve of his best short stories selected on the basis of literary quality as representatives of his most successful achievements within the genre.
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The writer who best represents 20th-century Southern narrative led an existence every bit as colorful and dramatic as his fictional sagas. This program recounts William Faulkner's life and the great literary works it produced, exploring his affinity for the tragic and whimsical aspects of a decaying, racially fractured South. The film describes his early ambitions, family life, alcoholism, stints in Hollywood, and his eventual garnering of the Nobel...
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William Faulkner was a storyteller of exuberant imagination, a giant among 20th century writers. In this concise but comprehensive volume, Joachim Seyppel admirably fills the need for a clear introduction to Faulkner. In doing so, he discusses an important Faulknerian theme that has been generally neglected by scholars. This is the theme of the hermaphrodite, the mythical half-male, half-female offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite. Hermaphroditic women,...
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In this fourth edition of his celebrated study of Faulkner, Irving Howe analyzes all of the great author's works, emphasizing the themes that run throughout the novels and stories. "The scheme of my book is simple," Mr. Howe writes. "First, I have tried to say what Faulkner's work is `about,' to report on the social and moral themes in his books; and then I have tried to analyze and evaluate the more important novels." Anyone who has enjoyed the special...
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The period from the late 1920s to the early 1940s was in Faulkner's career one of prodigious fertility, and the creative outburst on which it opens from The Sound and the Fury (1929) through As I Lay Dying (1930) and Sanctuary (1931) to Light in August (1932) touches indeed on the miraculous. It is the four children of this miracle that Andr ̌Bleikasten re- examines and re-evaluates in his substantial new book on Faulkner. But rather than approach...
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"William Faulkner, America's greatest modern novelist, wrote no "defense" of his art, but discussed extensively the source, language, form, and purpose of fiction in interviews and dialogues, speeches and letters, topical essays and reviews. That seemingly incoherent mass of nonfiction writings yields, on close scrutiny, a set of congruent ideas founded on the writer's view of language: a potent but treacherous medium that word-transcending form must...
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