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| | MSN Encarta - William Faulkner |
 | | Faulkner often described himself as "just a farmer who likes to tell stories." His style, however, was that of a consummately skilled craftsman. | | | Particularly in his later works, Faulkner stressed man's power to prevail over evil and decay and to find new values when the traditional ones have failed. | | | Despite his preoccupation with depravity and violence, however, Faulkner also wrote of people’s capacity to perform acts of nobility and goodness. |
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| | Faulkner |
| | Faulkner grew up surrounded by traditional lore--family and regional stories, rural folk wisdom and humor, heroic and tragic accounts of the War Between the States, and tales of the hunting code and the Southern gentleman's ideal of conduct. | | | William Faulkner (1897-1962), a major figure of contemporary American literature, wrote novels and short stories combining stream-of-consciousness narrative with linguistic innovations and vivid characterization. | | | Faulkner set ambitious goals for himself and often considered his books failures because they did not measure up to his expectations. |
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| | William Faulkner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Some consider Faulkner to be the only true American Modernist prose fiction writer of the 1930s, following in the experimental tradition of European writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann. | | | In it he remarked, "I decline to accept the end of man [...] Man will not only endure, but prevail..." Both events were fully in character. | | | Its themes of evil and corruption (bearing Southern Gothic tones) resonate to this day. |
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| | William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| | Faulkner needs to be related to the other great modernists who so influenced him, especially Joyce and Eliot, and his work should and could be profitably compared and contrasted to the similar but sometimes very different literary experiments of Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald, Wright, and so on. | | | Students are resistant to texts that withhold key information, to narrative that is obscure and/or convoluted, and to characters who don't seem to have "common sense." All of these "sins" appear in Faulkner's work. | | | Teachers should be prepared to answer typical questions: Students want to know if he "really thought of all those things when he was writing," referring to the hidden references we uncover in symbolism, imagery, and so on. |
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| | UVa Special Collections Library: Collections |
| | The bulk of the manuscripts and typescripts of his novels, short stories, and poetry were presented to the University by the William Faulkner Foundation and the outstanding library of printed works by and about Faulkner was presented by Linton R. Massey. | | | He was a modest man, but I think he would be pleased too to see his name linked as it is here with that of his friend, William Faulkner. | | | Researchers should enquire concerning availability of microfilm of manuscripts that are pertinent to their work. |
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| | Heath Anthology of American LiteratureWilliam Faulkner - Author Page |
| | Faulkner wrote this book thinking of a little girl with muddy drawers climbing a pear tree to look in on her grandmother’s body lying in state in the parlor, thereby finding a metaphor for the narrative of the fall of a proud southern family. | | | Falkner, a Civil War hero who was also a popular writer, William Cuthbert Faulkner aspired to greatness, even as a small child, when he listened mesmerized to tales and legends from his distinguished family’s past, a history that had paled by the time it reached his rather ordinary and sometimes hostile father, Murray Falkner. | | | In Anderson’s literary circle Faulkner became acquainted with Freud’s theories of sexuality, the mythic world of anthropologist Sir James Frazer’s Golden Bough, and the sweeping implications of the literary innovations of T. Eliot and James Joyce. |
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| | Amazon.com: As I Lay Dying (Vintage International): Books: William Faulkner |
| | Faulkner knew that the voices of these lost souls wouldn't be enough to support the narrative, however, so (much to the relief of the reader) he incorporates the voices of the family's neighbors and the observers of their trek. | | | Faulkner later summarized the book simply: "I took this family and subjected them to the two greatest catastrophes which man can suffer--flood and fire, that's all." It sounds morbid, even depressing--but, as the farcical ending finally makes clear, it's meant almost entirely as a biblically inspired comedy. | | | While I'm sure that such a style may have seemed good to Faulkner when he was pushing it around in his head, I don't think that it was a good way to write a story at all. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067973225X?v=glance
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| | The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom! |
| | The book's title is taken from the biblical story of Absalom, son of King David, told in the second book of Samuel--a dynastic tale of incest, rebellion, revenge, and violent death. | | | After his plan to breed yet a third family with the sister of his dead wife fails, Sutpen impregnates the teenage daughter of a poor white man, who kills him with a scythe when he insults the girl because she has given birth to a daughter. | | | Faulkner's original title for the novel was "Dark House," and as in much of his work, we see in Absalom, Absalom! |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/faulkner
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| | William Faulkner, a writer from Oxford, Mississippi, and author of The Sound and the Fury |
| | Faulkner's writing diverges from that of his realistic contemporaries such as Hemingway. | | | Requiem for a Nun, written by William Faulkner, is a strange synthesis between a play and a story that leads the reader into a conflict between truth and false-hood. | | | The first comprehensive collection of contemporary published reactions to the writing of William Faulkner from 1926 to 1962, these articles document the response of reviewers to specific works, and chronicle the development of Faulkner's reputation among the nation's book reviewers. |
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http://www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Faulkner.html
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| | MWP: William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| | For more information on Faulkner, including commentaries on individual works, family genealogies, a character and place name glossary, bibliographies of criticism, a map and description of Faulkner sites in Oxford, and other information resources, visit William Faulkner on the Web, which is maintained by the author of this article. | | | On June 17, Faulkner was again injured by a fall from a horse. | | | As for the earlier novel, Faulkner solicited the help of his friend Ben Wasson, a literary agent in New York, who convinced Harcourt, Brace to publish the novel, but only with extensive cuts from the manuscript. |
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http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/faulkner_william
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| | little blue light - William Faulkner |
| | By the late 1930's, Faulkner's marriage was beginning to falter, exacerbated by both spouses' heavy drinking and violent arguments. | | | His difficulty in publishing these works only made Faulkner bolder in his experiments and subject matter, determined now to please only himself. | | | Loosely based on the biblical story of King David and Absalom where one of David's sons revolts against his father and another son engages in an incestuous relationship with his sister. |
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http://www.littlebluelight.com/lblphp/intro.php?ikey=8
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| | UNF Library Subject Guide: William Faulkner |
| | After reading Faulkner and experiencing the rush of life so vividly depicted in his stories and in his novels, a visitor to Yoknapatawpha might agree with Lena's assessment of her experiences in Faulkner's A Light in August: "My, my. | | | "Faulkner's Indians, Or the Poetics of Cannibalism." The Faulkner Journal 18.1/2 (2002): 143. | | | Wulfman, Clifford E. "The Poetics of Ruptured Mnemosis: Telling Encounters in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!" The Faulkner Journal 20.1/2 (2004): 111. |
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| | Amazon.com: William Faulkner: Books: Irving Howe |
| | The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Philip M. Weinstein | | | Buy this book with The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner... | | | A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner: The Short Stories by Edmond Loris Volpe |
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| | William Faulkner Bibliography |
| | Waves of time in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses "Readers of William Faulkner must sort through complex chronological developments when reading his stories. | | | Etymology and As I Lay Dying (9/30/2004), by Faye Friesen and Charles Peek; "'Because if there is a God What the Hell is He for?': Frenchman's Bend and Its Piety in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying" (9/30/2004), by Charles A. Peek. | | | The Limitations of a Reader-Response Approach to Faulkner’s 'A Rose for Emily'" (10/8/2004) by Jim Barloon; "Town and Time: Teaching Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" (10/8/2004) by Mary Ellen Byrne; "Changing Portraits in 'A Rose for Emily'" (10/8/2004), by Janice A. Powell |
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| | UNC Press Featured Book William Faulkner |
| | From the book, here is the contents and list of illustrations. | | | It is carefully wrought, and it is persuasive."--Joel Williamson, author of William Faulkner and Southern History | | | "A well-written, well-argued, original approach to Faulkner's life and work, revolving around the conflict between the Victorian/Cavalier ideology he inherited and the Modernism he not only chose but helped bring to its supreme manifestation. |
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| | Threepenny: Marías, Faulkner |
| | According to Faulkner, no one bothered him there, the continual hum from the enormous old dynamo was "soothing," and the place itself was otherwise "warm and silent." | | | When asked to name the best American writers of his day, he would say that they had all failed, but that Thomas Wolfe had been the finest failure and William Faulkner the second finest failure. | | | Then he said, "Three years," adding: "You know, a woman should know only how to do three things." He paused, then concluded: "Tell the truth, ride a horse, and sign a check." |
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| | William Faulkner |
| | William Faulkner reads from his story "The Old Man." This excerpt includes a dizzying range of plot elements, including a fleeing convict who is guiding a boat over the flooding Mississippi; on board is a pregnant woman about to give birth. | | | The novel is written in many short sections, each named after the character whose point of view and thoughts are expressed. | | | William Faulkner, reads from his novel "As I Lay Dying," which was published in 1930. |
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| | William Faulkner |
| | Yet, Faulkner considered himself a poet, and surely a sense of poetry runs through all his works. | | | And I think these poems show promise." These are prophetic words, even though Faulkner would never be noted as a poet, and would publish only one other volume of poetry in his long career. | | | William Faulkner's first published book, The Marble Faun, is not a novel but a collection of verse--nineteen poems in a pastoral cycle--which appeared in December of 1924. |
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http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/american/faulkner.html
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| | University of Delaware WILLIAM FAULKNER: A CENTENARY CELEBRATION |
| | The fictitious Yoknapatawpha county, of which Faulkner appointed himself "sole owner and proprietor," brings together a group of characters who suffer in the present unable to free themselves from the past visited upon them by their own ancestors. | | | His most productive years offered readers about one book a year for twenty years and his contribution to American literature, and world literature, is significant. | | | Faulkner, always an experimenter, has given the world his genius in the form of poetry, short stories, plays, novels, even illustrations and anecdote. |
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http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/faulkner
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| | William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech |
| | "All his life William Faulkner had avoided speeches, and insisted that he not be taken as a man of letters. | | | Because of his known aversion to making formal pronouncements, there was much interest, when he traveled to Stockholm to receive the prize on December 10, 1950, in what he would say in the speech that custom obliged him to deliver. | | | Faulkner evidently wanted to set right the misinterpretation of his own work as pessimistic. |
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| | Faulkner, William (Cuthbert) |
| | John T. Matthews, The Play of Faulkner's Language (1982); and André Bleikasten, The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner's Novels, from The Sound and the Fury to Light in August (1990), are important examples of more recent criticism. | | | Although the psychological intensity and technical innovation of these two novels were scarcely calculated to ensure a large contemporary readership, Faulkner's name was beginning to be known in the early 1930s, and he was able to place short stories even in such popular--and well-paying--magazines as Collier's and Saturday Evening Post. | | | None of his short stories was accepted, however, and he was especially shaken by his difficulty in finding a publisher for Flags in the Dust (published posthumously, 1973), a long, leisurely novel, drawing extensively on local observation and his own family history, that he had confidently counted upon to establish his reputation and career. |
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| | Fiction: William Faulkner |
| | Beginning with a picture of Faulkner and quotations by J. Priestly and Richard Ellman, this famous speech will give you an interesting perspective on the author and on his thoughts on humanity. | | | His short story "A Rose for Emily" concerns the mysterious life of Emily Grierson and presents a personal conflict rooted in her southern identity. | | | Born into an old Mississippi family that had lost its influence and wealth during the Civil War, William Faulkner lived nearly all his life in the South writing about Yoknapatawpha County, an imagined Mississippi county similar to his home in Oxford. |
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| | Today in History: September 25 |
| | Learn about Faulkner's contemporaries in Voices from the Thirties. | | | I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. | | | After early attempts to publish failed, Faulkner assumed his work would not receive public recognition but determined to continue writing for his own fulfillment. |
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| | Welcome to Faulkner House |
| | Other details will be announced in the Spring, once our venue has been selected. | | | For and order blank and more information about the author and book, click here on: Ballads. | | | For details about authors who have appeared recently and their books and authors coming soon, click here on |
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| | Scriptorium - William Faulkner |
| | If you are a writer with expertise in the life and works of William Faulkner, and you’d be interested in helping The Modern Word expand, please look at the Scriptorium submission guidelines. | | | Amazon.com Search – Search Amazon.com for books and related material on William Faulkner. | | | This section is dedicated to a future Scriptorium Page on William Faulkner. |
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| | William Faulkner @Web English Teacher |
| | Students analyze "A Rose for Emily," "Two Soldiers," and "The Bear" to determine the characteristics of Faulkner's writing and the reasons for his greatness. | | | Study Questions on "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner | | | This writing assignment asks students to analyze Faulkner's characters in the video version of the story. |
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| | The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 12 |
| | We have worked hard to make this archive as complete as possible, and hope you’ll forgive us the omission. | | | Six Drawings for Faulkner's "These Thirteen", Issue No. 2 |
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| | American Writers: William Faulkner |
| | In the years 1930-42 Faulkner published two collections of stories, a second book of poems (A Green Bough, 1933), and nine novels—As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light In August (1932), Pylon (1935), Absalom, Absalom! | | | Sartoris (1929) was the first of his Yoknapatawpha novels; The Sound And The Fury (1929), his first masterwork, continued the cycle. | | | Faulkner's Collected Stories, published in 1950, won the National Book Award. |
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| | William Faulkner on the Web |
| | Final ‘corrected text’ edition to focus on Faulkner’s first four novels | | | This fifth volume by the Library of America completes the series encompassing all of Faulkner's novels which began in 1985 with the publication of Novels, 1930-1935. | | | The William Faulkner Foundation (Rennes University, Rennes, France) |
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http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
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| | Random House, Inc. celebrates William Faulkner's Centennial |
| | Random House, Inc. is proud to publish this great American writer in Vintage International paperback editions and Modern Library hardcover editions, and to join in the global birthday. | | | His novels and short stories continue to absorb readers around the world with their masterly writing and themes of Southern Gothic tragedy. | | | We've assembled a complete list of our editions of William Faulkner's works along with a commemoration of the writer by Dr. Bob Brinkmeyer, a professor of English at Ole Miss (and a devoted fan). |
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| | William Faulkner |
| | 1955 National Book Awards - Fiction A Fable, William Faulkner Nonfiction The Measure of Man, Joseph Wood Krutch Poetry The... | | | Born into an old Southern family named Falkner, he changed the spelling of his last name to Faulkner when he published his first book, a collection of poems entitled | | | Because Faulkner's novels treat the decay and anguish of the South since the Civil War, they abound in violent and sordid events. |
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| | American Writers: William Faulkner |
| | How can a teacher successfully teach the writings of William Faulkner? | | | How did Faulkner generally characterize women in his writings? | | | In what ways is Faulkner's writing style significant to American literature? |
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http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/videolesson/vlp30_faulkner.asp
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| | William Faulkner - Biography |
| | Faulkner's most outspoken moral evaluation of the relationship and the problems between Negroes and whites is to be found in Intruder In the Dust (1948). | | | The human drama in Faulkner's novels is then built on the model of the actual, historical drama extending over almost a century and a half Each story and each novel contributes to the construction of a whole, which is the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County and its inhabitants. | | | In 1940, Faulkner published the first volume of the Snopes trilogy, The Hamlet, to be followed by two volumes, The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959), all of them tracing the rise of the insidious Snopes family to positions of power and wealth in the community. |
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| | William Faulkner |
| | The same issue of the Times devoted two additional pages to Faulkner’s career, including a reprint of his Nobel Prize address, excerpts from his fiction, a bibliography of his major works, and a literary appreciation by the paper’s chief book critic. | | | Forty years later in 2002, Faulkner’s literary reputation remains as high as it was at his death, perhaps higher. | | | Readers, then, continue to rank Faulkner among the giants of American literature. |
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| | William Faulkner (I) |
| | William Faulkner, one of the 20th century's most gifted novelists, wrote... | | | Find where William Faulkner is credited alongside another name | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for William Faulkner (I) |
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| | MWP: Mississippi Books & Writers for November 1999 |
| | The year 1997 was the centennial of the birth of William Faulkner, and the editors, both professors of English, chose this opportunity to begin work on an updated analysis of one of the masters of twentieth-century literature. | | | This encyclopedia is not so much about Faulkner’s personal but his literary life, with entries covering primary influences and major themes, works, major characters, family members, and critics. | | | Entries that analyze Faulkner’s writing include Point of view and Stream of consciousness, along with those for individual novels, short stories, screenplays, and other works. |
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| | American Rhetoric: William C. Faulkner - Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| | The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. | | | William Faulkner: Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature | | | American Rhetoric: William C. Faulkner - Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature |
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| | The Kentucky Derby: Call to the Derby Post |
| | This essay was originally published in Sports Illustrated, May 16, 1955. | | | The text of this essay was taken from the book William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches and Public Letters, edited by James B. Meriwether | | | NOTE: The opinions expressed in this article, and all other pieces of Call To The Derby Post's "Derby Culture, Documented" section are in no way affiliated with those of Call To The Derby Post. |
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| | UNC Press William Faulkner Online |
| | The Center sponsors and supports educational, research, and public service projects related to the life and work of William Faulkner. | | | An English Teacherís Tour through Faulkner information, including biography references, list of novels and short stories, and a lesson plan that can be used in the classroom. | | | Information about and excerpts from this important new intellectual biography of Faulkner by Daniel J. Singal (University of North Carolina Press). |
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| | The location of the William Faulkner Society web site has been moved to a new locaiton, | | | Your browser should redirect you to new location in several seconds. | | | Please update any bookmarks you have to reflect this change. |
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| | William Faulkner - Wikiquote |
| | It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. | | | It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. | | | William Faulkner at the official site of the Nobel Prizes |
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| | William Faulkner: NOTICE |
| | Click the photograph above to go immediately to the main index page, or wait and it will open automatically in approximately | | | Photo: A sign (obviously digitally modified) on State Highway 6 at the eastern entrance to Faulkner's home Lafayette County, Mississippi. |
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