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Brooks maintains that Faulkner's anchoring his fiction to north Mississippi is of the utmost importance. It is Faulkner's attachment to a concrete region with its rich particularity and its firmly grounded sense of community that gives him a special vantage point from which to view the modern world.
3) Sartoris
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Novel that dissects a decaying upper social class; the story of the descendants of Colonel John Sartoris.
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At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life. "As I Lay Dying" is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself
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What has Faulkner criticism so far accomplished? Where have scholars wandered far afield? What directions now should meaningful scholarship take? These questions are considered in this volume of papers presented at the Tenth Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held in 1983 at the University of Mississippi. The authors, some of the leading names in Faulkner scholarship, point out that William Faulkner too often has been classified as a southern...
7) The mansion
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Sequel to The Hamlet and The Town, showing what happens to the Snopes family, in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this post-bellum family, who managed to seize control of the town of Jefferson within a generation. It charts the downfall of Flem Snopes at the hands of his relative Mink Snopes, in part aided by Flem's deaf...
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Pilkington devotes a chapter to each one of the nine novels set in the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha. They are Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom Absalom!, The Unvanquished, The Hamlet and Go Down, Moses. He emphasizes the humanistic implications of Faulkner's thematic concerns and the complexities of his world.
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While the essays in this volume explore various aspects of Faulkner's rich and inexhaustible comic art, they all hold in common one axiom: that William Faulkner, the recognized genius of tragic art, is a master of comic forms as well and, further, that neither mode, tragic or comic, is ever very far from the other in Faulkner's world. James Cox and Wiliam Claxon reassert a familiar but helpful reminder of the outlandish humor in Jason Compson's world....
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The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." Faulkner's classic story ... is now available in a corrected text Vintage Edition.
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"Lafayette County, Mississippi, was the primary inspiration for what is arguably the most famous place in American fiction: William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Falkner once explained that in his Yoknapatawpha stories he "sublimated the actual into the apocryphal." This history of Lafayette County reverses that notion, using Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past." "Drawing on both history and literature,...
18) Light in August
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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 horesemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancentry.
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"Winner of the Nobel Prize in literature and one of the greatest American writers, William Faulkner is remembered for novels and short stories that explore the complex culture and tragic legacy of the American South. Faulkner's influential works, including As I Lay Dying; Light in August; The Sound and the Fury; Absalom, Absalom!: "The Bear"; and many others are studied across the world."--Jacket.
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