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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation"”.
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Faulkner, form, and the anxiety of cinematic influence
Faulkner, Form, and the Anxiety of Cinematic Influence addresses William Faulkner s career as it was split between two different disciplines: the craft of the novelist, and the less esteemed occupation of the screenwriter. Although renowned for his efforts in the first of these (for which he would …
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Disrupted constructions: Joe Christmas's formation of race and sexuality in Light in August
… Christmas associates himself with the black race and endures all of the ridicule that comes with it just to believe that he knows a little bit about his personal history and allows his racial confusion to influence his construction of his sexual identity throughout his adolescent and adult life. …
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William Faulkner: The Search and the Simile
<p>William Faulkner (1897-1962) is well known for his distinctive prose style -- his word choice, his long sentences, and his chains of imagery. In this paper, three novels, <em>Sartoris</em> (1929), <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em> (1936), and <em>The Mansion</em> (1955) are studied to see what can be …
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James Joyce and His Influence : William Faulkner and Anthony Burgess
… Joyce's Ulysses provides a basis for examining and analyzing the influence of Joyce on selected works of William Faulkner and Anthony Burgess especially in regard to the major ideas and style, and pattern and motif. The works to be used, in addition to Ulysses, include Faulkner's "The Bear" in …
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"The worry that you are yourself": Darl's unforgivable neurodiversity in As I lay dying
… is concerned with the character of Darl Bundren and the repeated motif of madness in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Possible psychiatric explanations for Darl's madness, including linguistic evidence for his psychotic breakdown, are explored. The paper does not agree with the critical use of …
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Dark Houses: Navigating Space and Negotiating Silence in the Novels of Faulkner, Warren and Morrison
… scholars accept that this anxiety exists and causes some tension, since it seems antithetical to another dominant motif, that of the power of place and the home as sanctuary. My critical persona, like Poe's narrator in "The House of Usher," looks into a dark, silent tarn and shudders to …