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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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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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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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James Joyce and His Influence : William Faulkner and Anthony Burgess
… 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 Go Down, Moses and Mosquitoes and Burgess' Nothing Like the …
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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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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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Levels of Maturity: The Theme of Striving in The Novels of William Faulkner
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The Rational and the Intuitive : a Thematic Juxtaposition in the fiction of William Faulkner
Throughout the broad scope of William Faulkner's fiction a thematic pattern emerges which has hitherto been little dealt with by his critics. This pattern presents, initially, an exploration of the principles of rationality and intuition as opposing faculties of the human mind. For Faulkner, …
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La poetique du paysage dans l'oeuvre d'Edouard Glissant, de Kateb Yacine et de William Faulkner
… ways in which Edouard Glissant, Kateb Yacine and William Faulkner combine landscape, history and identity in their work. The depiction of landscape in literature is not new, but the French Romantics in the 19th century, for instance, tended to describe the beauty of landscape without conceiving …
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The Influence and Subversion of the Southern Folk Tradition in the Novels of William Faulkner
I argue that the Southern folk tradition is William Faulkner’s strongest influence. Faulkner experienced both a black and white folk culture in childhood through his Aunt Alabama and his nurse, Caroline Barr. I cover many of Faulkner’s ‘Modernist’ novels but examine their folk and vernacular …
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LINES THAT BIND: DISABILITY’S PLACE IN THE MODERNIST WRITINGS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER, AMY LOWELL, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND EZRA POUND
… American modernist writers like Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, Amy Lowell, and Ezra Pound at a time when eugenics' insistence on a superior and uniform humanity dominated social thought and how their writings complicate generalized conclusions espousing ablist tendencies in modernist …
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"Beyond Myth: Sexual Identity In ""light In August"" And Other Novels By William Faulkner (women, Narrative, Point Of View)"
… standard critical interpretations of Faulkner's portrayal of female characters, using attitudes toward myth and legend suggested in A Fable to establish a scheme whereby female characters are either victims or exploiters of the archetypal feminine roles they are usually said to embody. …
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