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Faulkner And "The Football"
This thesis will examine William Faulkner's career-long engagement with popular discourses surrounding collegiate football, and American sports more generally. Although Faulkner is often vieas a paragon of American high modernism, his development as a fiction writer during the "Gold Age of Sports" …
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Growing Up Faulkner: Coming of Age, Identity, and Parental Responsibility in Three Faulkner Families.
<p>Throughout William Faulkner's fiction, specifically in <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>, <em>The Sound and the Fury</em>, and <em>As I Lay Dying</em>, the impact of parents who intimately know failure and loss figure largely in the strange coming of age of their children. In the Compson family, the …
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William Faulkner: Critic of Society
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William Faulkner as moralist : A Fable
<p>In August, 1954, William Faulkner’s twentieth book of fiction, A Fable, was published. As might be expected by anyone knowing of Faulkner’s previous career and critical reception, the reviewers received it with widely divergent opinions. None seems to have found the book an unqualified success, …
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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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Immortalizing the Human Spirit: Analyzing Faulkner through Schopenhauer
… American prose of the twentieth century, William Faulkner wrote modernist novels the numerous complexities and ambiguities of which require continued decipherment. Critics have attempted to interpret If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem; Absalom, Absalom!; As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury; and Light …
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The unity of collected stories of William Faulkner
Collected Stories of William Faulkner, published in 1950 and awarded the National Book Award for Fiction in 1951, is more than an arbitrarily arranged selection of representative stories. Indeed, it is remarkably similar in form and theme to many of Faulkner's novels, especially Go Down, Moses, and …
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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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Time and character in three novels by William Faulkner
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Time and character in three novels by William Faulkner
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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The Writing of Nation: Faulkner and the Postbellum South
This dissertation argues that William Faulkner, drawing on a conversation begun by earlier Southern writers, writes his anxiety about the South's assimilation into the nation. Specifically, I argue that his early works show repulsion to the idea of the South's assimilation, while his later works …
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James Joyce and His Influence : William Faulkner and Anthony Burgess
… 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 Go Down, Moses and Mosquitoes and Burgess' Nothing Like the Sun. …
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Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond
… dissertation is a biographical study of William Faulkner (1897-1962) as his life coincided with a particular moment in LGBT history when the words homosexual and queer were undergoing profound changes and when our contemporary understanding of gay identity was becoming a widespread and …
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Building Yoknapatawpha: Reading Space and the Plantation in William Faulkner
This thesis is about the Southern plantation in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha fiction: how it is represented and constructed, how it is narratively articulated and experienced as both space and symbol. But as its full title suggests, Building Yoknapatawpha is equally about narrative structures and …
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Regionalism in selected musical works of Charles Faulkner Bryan (1911-1955)
… regionalism in selected musical works of Charles Faulkner Bryan (1911-1955). The composer's upbringing and cultural heritage are examined within the context of the history and traditions of the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. The selected scores are examined for textual, musical, and …
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William Faulkner as Sociologist: An Adventure in the Sociology of Literature
My basic problem will be not to prove that Faulkner is, was, a sociologist or to suggest that his works be required reading in courses in sociological theory, but rather, to show in what sense and what areas his and the role of sociologist overlap. A. thorough reading of the major Faulkner novels, …
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RITUAL, COMMUNITY, AND ALIENATION: STUDIES IN LYTLE, TATE, AND FAULKNER (SOUTH)
… men who follow either manner of life. William Faulkner's work also demonstrates an ironic attitude toward the concept of community. His novel Go Down, Moses depicts characters acting out rituals, but Faulkner demonstrates tensions in the ritual process, forces that work to destroy the potential …
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Levels of Maturity: The Theme of Striving in The Novels of William Faulkner
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