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| | Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha, by Don H. Doyle. Introduction. |
 | | It is not at all the purpose of this book to burden readers with nitpicking corrections of various historical "errors" or implausible stories found in Faulkner's fictional epic of Yoknapatawpha. | | | Historians do not possess the same license to remove or even ignore such things, but if the university makes Oxford seem exceptional, its impact on the local economy and society was limited before the twentieth century and never so great as to make the entire county significantly different. | | | These links between people or incidents in famous literature and the "real world" hold a certain fascination for readers, in part, because they seem to validate the notion that literature relates to life. |
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http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/doyle_faulkners.html
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| | Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha, by Don H. Doyle. Introduction. |
| | It is not at all the purpose of this book to burden readers with nitpicking corrections of various historical "errors" or implausible stories found in Faulkner's fictional epic of Yoknapatawpha. | | | Historians do not possess the same license to remove or even ignore such things, but if the university makes Oxford seem exceptional, its impact on the local economy and society was limited before the twentieth century and never so great as to make the entire county significantly different. | | | These links between people or incidents in famous literature and the "real world" hold a certain fascination for readers, in part, because they seem to validate the notion that literature relates to life. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/uncpress/chapters/doyle_faulkners.html
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| | Faulkner at 100 |
| | In honor of his centenary the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference of 1997 brought together twenty-five of the most important Faulkner scholars to examine the achievement of this writer generally regarded as the finest American novelist of the twentieth century. |
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http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/fall2000/faulkner_at_100.html
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| | William Faulkner |
| | The possibilities are endless and the deeper you get into the inter-workings of Yoknapatawpha County the more you fall in love with the characters and their home. | | | While one novel may begin with a father and a child, the story throughout the novels allows the reader to watch that child grow up, fall in love, and have children of his or her own. | | | While Faulkner’s works are truly wonderful and engrossing, in this day in age one hardly had time for the pleasures of reading, leaving Faulkner’s stories unread, unappreciated and unstudied. |
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http://www.personal.psu.edu/students/k/a/kah928/home.htm
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| | "Exercises in Doom..." |
| | But in her case, neither that fact, nor the fact that she once briefly might have imagined herself to be in love with Sutpen, does not mean that her wedding is not also symbolic of sterility. | | | By refusing to indulge in vengeance, which was so much a part of Drusilla's and John's lives, Bayard makes a positive step in that direction. | | | All page references to The Sound and the Fury are from the 1946 Modern Library Edition. |
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http://www.geocities.com/lrampey/doom.htm
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| | MWP: William Faulkner (1897-1962) ~ Internet Resources |
| | William Faulkner on the Web features commentary on Faulkner's works, bibliographies, character genealogies and hypertext glossary, additional resources, timelines of Yoknapatawpha County history, and more. |
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http://www.bri.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/internet.html
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| | little blue light - William Faulkner - Criticism |
| | It is a tale as turbulent and engrossing as any of the novels and stories in his monumental Yoknapatawpha saga. | | | Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha by Daniel Hoffman | | | The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner's Novels from the Sound and the Fury to Light in August by André Bleikasten |
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http://www.littlebluelight.com/lblphp/crit.php?ikey=8
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| | Joanie Dodd |
| | This clearly illustrates Faulkner's ability to alter what he chose in the construction of Yoknapatawpha (Gutting,pg.28). | | | The most notable difference is that the second map is less geometrical than the first. | | | The religion of Yoknapatawpha was the religion of Lafayette and the south everywhere in the 1930's. |
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~bpn2f/ENWR/portfolio/joanie.html
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| | H-Net Review: Louis W. Mazzari on Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha |
| | A voracious collector of hometown stories and gossip, Faulkner claimed the literary question he most often provoked around town was, "How in the hell did he remember all that" (p. | | | He translates it into English as "land divided" or "split land," an apt and symbolic name for the troubled history he traces. | | | Characteristic of his taste for contradiction, William Faulkner called the setting for his novels and stories both "actual" and "apocryphal." Yoknapatawpha County is the place where he resolved his simultaneous impulses to invent and to document. |
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http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25641012413055
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| | William Faulkner: Biography and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Published one month before his death, Faulkner's final novel is a nostalgic last look at Yoknapatawpha County in a comic tale set in 1905. | | | Near its close, Lucius Priest, a young man who is just beginning to grasp the power of the past, asks his grandfather if he can somehow forget the embarrassing, humiliating events of the story. | | | His last book, The Rievers, published a month before his death, is a nostalgic look at Yoknapatawpha County in 1905. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/william-faulkner
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| | William Faulkner and the Tangible Past |
| | Hines's gifts as an architectural historian and photographer and his intimate knowledge of Faulkner country are evident throughout this handsome book. | | | The world of William Faulkner is seen from a new perspective in Thomas Hines's imaginative and many-faceted study. | | | Over 110 distinctive photographs, in both color and black-and-white, beautifully complement the text, making this book both a reading and viewing pleasure. |
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http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6716.html
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| | Commentary Magazine - Terrors of Yoknapatawpha and Fairfield |
| | GENERALLY speaking, there are two kinds of stories being written in America today-Southern stories and Connecticut stories. | | | ...The "Connecticut" writers are like Knox because they cherish a too simple set of moral rewards and punishments, yet vaguely intimate a mysterious and "hidden" 584TERRORS OF YOKNAPATAWPHA AND FAIRFIELD God who may at any moment upset them all... | | | ...He has removed the "aesthetic dis576TERRORS OF YOKNAPATAWPHA AND FAIRFIELD tance," the effort to control experience, remnants of which we still find in the O. Henry prize stories: for it he substitutes his own person-immediate and easy to identify... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V14I6P65-1.htm
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| | Free Barron's BookNotes for As I Lay Dying - The Novel-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from PinkMonkey.com |
| | The Tulls, Samsons, Armstids, and Bundrens are all part of the same community, yet each family operates within its own orbit, and within that orbit each individual lives locked in the "cell" of his own consciousness. | | | A lazy man, he has convinced himself that if he ever sweats, he will die. | | | Indeed, Faulkner suggests that the Yoknapatawpha River is a dividing line as significant to the Bundrens as the mythological River Styx was to the ancient Greeks. |
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http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/asilayd2.asp
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| | Yoknapatawpha County |
| | Each novel and story tells a different tale from the lives an intricately woven community living together, throughout many generations, in Yoknapatawpha County. | | | Faulkner Yoknapatawpha County Pieces of the Story Completed Works Home | | | Many of the characters move about throughout the county during the telling of their stories. |
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http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/k/a/kah928/map.htm
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| | Cleanth Brooks, William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country |
| | Brooks shows that Faulkner’s strong attachment to his region, with its rich particularity and deep sense of community, gave him a special vantage point from which to view the modern world. | | | Contending that a complete understanding of Faulkner’s writing cannot be had without a thorough grasp of fictional detail, Brooks gives careful attention to “what happens: In the Yoknapatawpha novels. | | | Books’s consideration of such novels as Light in August, The Unvanquished, As I Lay Dying, and Intruder in the Dust shows the ways in which Faulkner used Yoknapatawpha County to examine the characteristic themes of the twentieth century. |
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http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/Books/1990/Brooks_Yoknapatawpha.html
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| | Yoknapatawpha |
| | Southern Literature, Faulkner, John Grisham, Barry Hannah, Larry Brown, Civil War, Morris, signed, autographed, appearance, ABA, Yoknapatawpha, Jefferson, true crime, children's books, Thacker Mountain, Rowan Oak, biography, history, gender, Lafayette, R. | | | The definitive Internet guide to Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner.Featuring commentaries on his novels, an extensive character and place-name glossary, bibliographies, genealogies, chronologies, and biographical information along with an ext | | | William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha, Compson, Sutpen, Grierson, Sartoris, Snopes, Coldfield, Jefferson, Frenchman's Bend, Bundren, South, southern literature, books, writer. |
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| | Faulkner and War: Noel Polk: ISBN 1578065593 |
| | This book is part of the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series. | | | Authors: Noel Polk, Noel Polk (Editor), Ann J. Abadie, Ann J. Abadie (Editor), FAULKNER AND YOKNAPATAWPHA CONFERENCE 20 |
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| | faulknerbio |
| | The failure does not derive from a limited knowledge of his subject; it derives from a failure in conception. | | | There are many Yoknapatawpha characters brought into the stories, but none of them lives intensely or very meaningfully. | | | Clearly it is more sensible to see Yoknapatawpha County and its people as a little self-contained world of the imagination than as an accurate history, from the time of the Chickasaw Indians down to the present, of northern Mississippi. |
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http://www.smccd.net/accounts/lawlor/faulknerbio.htm
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| | Books on Yoknapatawpha County |
| | William Faulkner's fictional chronicle of Yoknapatawpha County culminates in his three last novels, rich with the history and lore of the domain where he set most of his novels and stories. | | | These thirteen original essays from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held in 1994 at the University of Mississippi, examine William Faulkner's texts in terms of their surprising range of gender portrayals. | | | The collection explores such themes as the male homosocial urge at the heart of warfare, the blurring of gender distinctions in Faulkner's "epicene" figures, the function of cross-dressing as a form of defiance of traditional hierarchies. |
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http://books.bankhacker.com/Yoknapatawpha+County
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| | Teaching Faulkner, Southeast Missouri State University |
| | Like the story of Thomas Sutpen, Faulkner's map of Yoknapatawpha depicts history literally as a dead-end, or, to use the phrases that Faulkner later directed to Malcolm Cowley, a "pointless chronicle," "the same frantic steeplechase toward nothing everywhere" (FCF 7, 15). | | | Even the courthouse, which sits at the center, as Faulkner says in another place, "laying its vast shadow to the uttermost rim of horizon" (RFN 35), and which ideally should be identified with order and stability and justice, is instead associated with Temple Drake's perjury and the pathetic fate of Benjy Compson. | | | Like the novel of which it is such an integral part, and the title which it complements, Faulkner's map both evidences and celebrates the artist's capacity to defeat time and death by crafting a work of art that will last "a long time, a very long time, longer than anything" (LIG 103). |
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http://www.semo.edu/cfs/teaching/index_4817.htm
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| | That Distant Land Review |
| | It is a place rich in character and characters, people with whom the reader laughs and grieves and loves. | | | Port William has been called Wendell Berry’s Yoknapatawpha. | | | A few hours after hearing Berry I was back home from a trip to the bookstore, novel in hand, reading Berry’s words. |
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http://www.nimblespirit.com/html/that_distant_land_review.htm
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| | Publishers Marketplace: Maria Covino |
| | Send up to fifty pages of manuscript, brief synopsis, author bio (including previous publishing experience, awards, and honors). | | | Yoknapatawpha offers keen editorial skills and specialized talent in literature and business. | | | This site is a service of PublishersLunch.com, the daily e-mail newsletter now known as "publishing's essential daily read." Join the nearly 30,000 people who read Lunch every day. |
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http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/Yoknapatawpha
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| | CliffsNotes::Faulkner's Short Stories:Book Summary and Study Guide |
| | The Snopeses are best represented by Flem, who in “Spotted Horses” symbolizes the rise of an amoral materialism that will eventually overpower all other moral values. | | | Ratliff, the narrator of “Spotted Horses,” sums up the Snopeses’ shady character with the deceptively simple saying, “Them Snopes,” an expression that underscores the astonishment and exasperation of Yoknapatawpha County’s citizens viewing the Snopeses’ behavior. | | | Whereas Sartoris is refined and carries about himself an Old World gentility, the Snopeses are crass, poor, and ill-mannered. |
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http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-110,pageNum-4.html
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| | Cleanth Brooks, William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond |
| | In this companion volume to William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country, Cleanth Brooks takes an in-depth look at Faulkner’s early poetry and prose as well as his five non-Yoknapatawpha novels—Soldiers Pay, Mosquitoes, Pylon, The Wild Palms, and A Fable. | | | He sheds light on the literary sources that influenced Faulkner’s early work and the technical innovations and general themes Faulkner was to develop in his later writing. | | | Brooks also offers relevant clarification of some of his earlier interpretations of Faulkner that have been challenged—most notably in the case of Faulkner that have been challenged—most notable in the case of Absalom, Absalom!, which he considers Faulkner’s greatest novel. |
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http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/Books/1990/Brooks_Toward.html
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| | Journal of Southern History: Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha |
| | I pity the librarian who has to catalog this remarkable book. | | | Don H. Doyle's book is not a biography, though it offers new insights into Faulkner's life. | | | Faulkner's County cannot be classified as local history because Yoknapatawpha County does not exist; it is a fictional world created by William Faulkner. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go2135/is_200302/ai_n7371512
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| | Kerr (1976) Yoknapatawpha, Faulkner's "Little postage stamp of native soil" |
| | Mississippi; In literature; Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place); Faulkner, William; Criticism and interpretation | | | To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box. | | | Yoknapatawpha, Faulkner's "Little postage stamp of native soil" |
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http://www.getcited.org/?PUB=101814934&showStat=Ratings
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| | The Virginia Quarterly Review - OXFORD-IN-YOKNAPATAWPHA |
| | Visitors to the Faulkner home place on Old Taylor Road poke around the shady grounds and stoop to pick up bird feathers dropped there long after the departure of the Master. | | | The brochure for the conference refers to those it hopes to enlist as "Faulkner pilgrims," which may not be far off the mark. | | | The thing has grown from that first gathering of pilgrims, no doubt of it. |
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http://www.vqronline.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/7862
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| | WFotW ~ Faulkner Glossary: "Y" |
| | Yoknapatawpha County Map: In his 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom! | | | but also key places from his earlier Yoknapatawpha novels. | | | The map is significant because it depicts not just events from Absalom, Absalom! |
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http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/glossaryy.html
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| | Yoknapatawpha County - definition of Yoknapatawpha County in Encyclopedia |
| | Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional county created by American author William Faulkner as a setting for many of his novels. | | | It is derived from two Chickasaw words—Yocona and petopha, meaning "split land." The compound word, however, according to Faulkner, means "water flowing slow through the flatland." Yoknapatawpha was the original name for the actual Yocona River, which runs through the southern part of Lafayette County, of which Oxford is the seat. | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Yoknapatawpha_County
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| | OhioLINK ETD: Meixner, Linda |
| | Secondary characters in the novel play out a series of shadow narratives, which complete Faulkner's psychological portrait of his dandy-aesthete in his final appearance as Horace Benbow. | | | The purpose of this study is to explain the presence of the dandy-aesthete, Horace Benbow, in the Cavalier culture of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. | | | Six chapters trace the character's development from his earliest avatar in The Marble Faun, culminating in his appearance in Flags in the Dust and the original Sanctuary. |
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1056636304
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| | Yoknapatawpha. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 |
| | Yoknapatawpha, Nobel Prize author William Faulkner (1897–1967) fictionalized Oxford, his home county in N Miss., using a Chickasaw tribal term for the region (“furrowed plow”) that had fallen into disuse. | | | Most of the sites given in Faulkner’s work are, in fact, fictional. | | | Several real names and locations were retained, including a RR line and the Tallahatchie R., but the county seat, Oxford, became Jefferson, and the Yocona R., the Yoknapatawpha. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/69/76/Y01176.html
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| | MWP: Mississippi Publishers |
| | Founded in 1975, Yoknapatawpha Press is a southern regional small press which publishes works by southern writers. | | | In addition to books, the press publishes the Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review, a quarterly newsletter devoted to William Faulkner, and co-sponsors the annual “Faux Faulkner Writing Contest,” in which entrants attempt to mimic Faulkner’s style of writing. | | | The press derives its name from William Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County, from the Chickasaw words meaning “gentle water.” |
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http://www.bri.olemiss.edu/mwp/publishers.html
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| | Newswise |
| | It is one of the longest-running literary events in the country focusing on the works of one author. | | | Since its creation in 1974, the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference has drawn scholars from throughout the world. | | | A conference highlight on July 24 is announcement of the winner of the 16th Faux Faulkner Contest, which draws writers who try to produce, according to the rules, "one really good page of really bad Faulkner parody." |
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http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/512712?sc=rsln
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| | William Faulkner |
| | The novel centered on the return of a soldier, who has been physically and psychologically disabled in WW I. It was followed by MOSQUITOES, a satirical portrait of Bohemian life, artist and intellectuals, in New Orleans. | | | Racism, class division, family as both life force and curse, are the recurring themes along with recurring characters and places. | | | American short story writer, novelist, best known for his Yoknapatawpha cycle, a comédie humaine of the American South, which started in 1929 with SARTORIS / FLAGS IN THE DUST and completed with THE MANSION in 1959. |
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| | Yoknapatawpha County -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Yoknapatawpha County is a (additional info and facts about fictional county) fictional county created by American author (United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)) William Faulkner as a setting for many of his novels. | | | The area was originally (The Muskhogean language of the Chickasaw people) Chickasaw land. | | | The word Yoknapatawpha is pronounced "Yok'na pa TAW pha.". |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/y/yo/yoknapatawpha_county.htm
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| | Zach Grenier |
| | His last descendant was known as Lonnie Grinnup, a feeble-minded man in his middle thirties sometime around the first quarter of the twentieth century, although his real name was the same as that of his first Yoknapatawpha County ancestor. | | | Louis Grenier (?-1837) A French architect and dilettante who came, around 1800, with Doctor Samuel Habersham and Alexander Holston to the settlement which would later become Jefferson. | | | He bought land in the southeastern part of Yoknapatawpha County and established the first cotton plantation and had the first slaves in that part of the state. |
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http://www.wwwtln.com/finance/222/zach-grenier.html
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| | Southern Roots |
| | Sartoris in 1929 and continuing throughout his career to The Reivers, published a month before his death on July 6, 1962. | | | Faulkner drew two maps of this territory, one to accompany the first edition of Absalom, Absalom! | | | Of all FaulknerÕs novels, by far the majority are concerned with Yoknapatawpha County and its people, beginning with |
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http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/faulknersite/faulknersite/sroots/roots.html
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| | MWP: William Faulkner (1897-1962) ~ Bibliography |
| | "A Cosmos of My Own." Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1980. | | | Kerr, Elizabeth M. William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: "A Kind of Keystone in the Universe." New York: Fordham University Press, 1983. | | | Hines, Thomas S. William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha. |
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http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/faulkner_william/bib.html
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| | Faulkner and Material Culture: 2004 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Call for Papers |
| | The world of Faulkner's fiction is a world of material abundance, intensified for readers by its relationship to the real world in which Faulkner lived and wrote and which he "translated" into "Yoknapatawpha." The 2004 "Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha" Conference will explore Faulkner's material world in its fictional and historical manifestations. | | | The aim of cultural studies is to situate the literary text within the multi-varied phenomena of cultural context. | | | Consider, for example, the significance of houses in Faulkner, from the Rowan Oak estate which he renovated and lived in for thirty years to the homes of Sutpen and McCaslin, McCallum and Bundren. |
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| | In 1925 William Faulkner was an unsuccessful poet who had not yet discovered the material and the narrative voice that would allow him to create the great Yoknapatawpha novels that would make him one of the greatest novelists that America has produced and a winner some twenty-five years later of the Nobel Prize for Literature. | | | He travelled in 1925 from his home in Oxford, Mississippi to New Orleans to meet Sherwood Anderson, whom he admired and whose Winesburg, Ohio had already made him one of the most influential American writers, one who had strongly influenced, among others, Ernest Hemingway. | | | in which he created the fictional county Yoknapatawpha from the people and places that he had known so well as a boy. |
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http://www.vcu.edu/vcuteaching/archives/archive18.html
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| | Faulkner 101 |
| | From idiomatic expressions to 50-cent words, no matter what book you're reading, we've got you covered. | | | Faulkner's novels are based in his mythic "postage stamp" of Mississippi. | | | Find out where fact meets fiction in this map of Yoknapatawpha County that he drew himself. |
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http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/asof/books/books_main.jhtml
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| | YOKNAPATAWPHA |
| | Bis zum Ausbruch des Bürgerkriegs 1861 war ein großer Teil des Counties in Großplantagen aufgeteilt. | | | Yoknapatawpha County liegt im Nordwesten des amerikanischen Bundesstaats Mississippi. | | | Yoknapatawpha County ist ein fiktiver Landkreis (county) im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Mississippi, der Schauplatz mehrerer Romane William Faulkners ist. |
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