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| | Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha, by Don H. Doyle. Introduction. |
 | | Maud Morrow Brown was writing a never-published but remarkably well-researched and thoughtful manuscript on Lafayette County and the Civil War, which bears striking similarity to the portrait Faulkner was sketching at the same time in his Civil War stories. | | | 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. | | | 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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| | William Faulkner |
| | 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. | | | This darkly comic masterpiece is the first novel in Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, the grasping clan that comes to dominate Yoknapatawpha County after the fall of the Confederacy. | | | Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. |
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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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| | William Faulkner: How His Life Affected His Work |
| | Yoknapatawpha is very natural for Faulkner to describe because it’s familiarity to his own non-f | | | In the short story “Barn Burning,” Faulkner uses his familiar Yoknapatawpha County, and in “A Rose for Emily,” his town of Jefferson. | | | Not only does Faulkner recycle his settings, he does the same with many of his characters. |
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| | Faulkner's South(s) |
| | Whereas every other Faulkner seems to belong to the South, to be of it, Sutpen seems "to be it, to contain and epitomize its history." Corresponding with his life is that of the Cotton Kingdom itself, its rise to power, its seemingly assumptive ties with the prerogative of aristocracy, and its fall. | | | This seed of literary advice would take root in Faulkner, but it would not be until his third novel that it would blossom into a beautiful flower of Southern literature. | | | It was at that time that he realized that writing was much more than just a way to avoid working for a living; now he began to see the power his written words could convey. |
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| | Library of America: William Faulkner: Novels 1957-1962 |
| | William Faulkner's fictional chronicle of Yoknapatawpha County culminates in his last three novels, rich with the accumulated history and lore of the microcosmic domain where he set most of his novels and stories. | | | The newest volume in The Library of America's authoritative Faulkner edition presents the final chapters of the Yoknapatawpha saga. | | | Here the rise of the rapacious Flem Snopes and his extravagantly extended family as they connive their way into power in the county seat of Jefferson, is brilliantly filtered through three separate narrative voices. |
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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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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95052565 |
| | The world of William Faulkner is seen from a new perspective in Thomas Hines's imaginative and many-faceted study. | | | Hines's gifts as an architectural historian and photographer and his intimate knowledge of Faulkner country are evident throughout this handsome book. | | | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 Knowledge Architecture, Art and literature Mississippi History 20th century, Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 Knowledge History, Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)Architecture in literature, Mississippi In literature |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: William Faulkner and Southern History |
| | Buy this book with Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapa... | | | Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow by Neil R. McMillen | | | Customers interested in William Faulkner and Southern History may also be interested in |
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| | Financial Review: On the run with William Faulkner |
| | The white man, Boon Hogganbeck (who first appeared in four of the short stories collected in 1942 as Go Down, Moses), is exactly as originally described, as is Corrie, the whore. | | | As an amateur student of Faulkner's work who has often praised and commented upon it in public, I am again and again asked by readers: Where should I begin? | | | Nearly 60 years ago, when Faulkner was almost completely unknown except among his fellow writers and when, incredibly, all 17 books he had then published were out of print or almost impossible to find, Malcolm Cowley came to his rescue. |
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| | Discovering Faulkner's World |
| | When he came to Mississippi, he brought along his own vision of Yoknapatawpha, one that derived from his personal understanding of Faulkner's work. | | | With the exception of A Fable, which I just couldn't get through because I'm ignorant about biblical things. | | | In the book's explanatory notes, Dain wrote: "The personality of William Faulkner will remain an enigma, but the country around him, our world, is as clear as one is willing to see././././ On the preceding pages I have tried to evoke some of this world. |
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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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| | 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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| | A Certain Slant of Light: |
| | 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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| | CliffsNotes::Faulkner's Short Stories:Book Summary and Study Guide |
| | His other characters appear and reappear in varying roles, and, therefore, in reading more than one of his novels or short stories, we come to know a great deal about the diverse people who inhabit Yoknapatawpha County. | | | Many of Faulkner’s same characters are found in his various novels; a character who appears in a minor role in one novel might reappear as a significant character in another. | | | But within a year, he is voted out of his command because of his arrogance and intolerance. |
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| | WILLIAM FAULKNER. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to Essay DB |
| | Faulkner especially was interested in multigenerational family chronicles, and many characters appear in more than one book; this gives the Yoknapatawpha County saga a sense of continuity that makes the area and its inhabitants seem real. | | | Faulkner continued to write-both novels and short stories-until his death. | | | The following year he moved to New Orleans, worked as a journalist, and met the American short-story writer Sherwood Anderson, who helped him find a publisher for his first novel, Soldier's Pay (1926), and also convinced him to write about the people and places he knew best. |
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| | Faulkner |
| | Like Thomas Mann and James Joyce, writers he greatly admired, Faulkner depicted traditional society not only in its own terms but also in terms of ageless human dramas. | | | These works show his early commitment to a writer's life. | | | Faulkner's principal setting is Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional domain loosely based upon places and subjects near to him in his youth. |
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| | Faulkner Pathfinder |
| | This work would be particularly valuable if used while reading Faulkner, to clarify plot lines and identify characters and their relationships to one another. | | | With his intricate literary style and his interrelated cast of characters, Faulkner wrote novels that are difficult to decipher. | | | It touches on the major themes of his writings, his style, and the importance of the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County. |
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| | William Faulkner Resources: The Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference |
| | It is a chance for Faulkner fans from all backgrounds to come together in the town where he lived and wrote virtually all his life. | | | Oxford, Mississippi, and Lafayette County are the real places out of which Faulkner created "Jefferson" and "Yoknapatawpha County," the mythical site of most of his major fiction, including the three novels that Oprah's Book Club is reading this summer. | | | "Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha" is the longest running annual conference devoted to a single American writer. |
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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. | | | Recognizing that the creative and imaginative center of Faulkner’s art is Yoknapatawpha County, Brooks examines the merits of each of the works set beyond these boundaries and explores how these writings complement Faulkner as an artist. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - Knight's Gambit, by William Faulkner |
| | ...These stories, then, are no great addition to that most ambitious imaginative effort in modern American literature, the saga of Yoknapatawpha County... | | | ...The one exception, though only in comparison with the rest of the volume, is "Tomorrow," which, like the great and fantastic As I Lay Dying, has to do with the dogged and obscure part of the population of Yoknapatawpha County living up in its stony hills... | | | ...In Knight's Gambit, this sentiment, as well as many others, is put into the mouth of Gavin Stevens, county attorney and Southern ideologue, who is the moral center and dramatic pivot of all these stories... |
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| | The EmpirePage.com - Book Reviews |
| | As the Boston Globe recently noted, "For more than a quarter century, [Kennedy's] books have been making Albany into a Northern, urban answer to Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County: a locale where imagination has embraced geography to produce literature. | | | The books in the widely acclaimed "Albany Cycle" are linked by family character interconnections, historical and fictional references, and a literary style that makes Kennedy one of the most interesting, readable authors of his time. | | | Often compared with Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County and even James Joyce’s Dublin, Albany has been an integral character in Kennedy’s novels, starting with Legs in 1975. |
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| | French Culture books releases : Faulkner, Mississippi, by Edouard Glissant |
| | Glissant's prose sometimes vies with Faulkner's for intricacy and evocative nuance." | | | He makes a convincing case that Faulkner is not just another 'dead white male author.'" | | | "[An] ambitious and, at times, rambunctious expedition into Yoknapatawpha County." -Christine Schwartz Hartley. |
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| | Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for Community College Faculty Sample Projects |
| | Guided by a literature professor who specializes in Faulkner and a historian of the American south who has written about the relationship between history and fiction, the participants read and discuss writings by Faulkner, including The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom! | | | Participants also visit sites in Lafayette County that Faulkner used in his fictional depiction of Yoknapatawpha, among them Faulkner's home, Rowan Oak, the Thompson mansion, the Courthouse, Frenchman's Bend, and Faulkner's farm. | | | A university literature department, in collaboration with a local historical society, conducts two week-long residential summer workshops on William Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County and its relationship to Lafayette, the actual Mississippi county that provided the background for his writings. |
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| | Louis Grenier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | 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 appears in Requiem for a Nun and is referred to in Intruder in the Dust, "Hand Upon the Waters," The Town, and The Reivers. | | | 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. |
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| | Longman Anthology of Short Fiction Online Chapter 3 -- William Faulkner |
| | Faulkner’s readers must be active participants in the assembly of "the whole story." Other scholars have traced his influence on later writers, especially his presentation of subjective consciousness. | | | Yoknapatawpha, William Faulkner’s fictional Southern county, figures prominently within Faulkner’s literary works and also in many critical commentaries on those works. | | | Faulkner draws not only on Southern landscape, but also Southern history and society in his choice of subjects and themes, such as racism, class, and the benevolent tyranny of families. |
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| | 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. | | | The southerner, the resident of Yoknapatawpha County, carries his burden of guilt, his part in the troubled and painful heritage that began with slavery, and he responds to it in his individual way. |
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| | WFotW ~ Faulkner Glossary: "Y" |
| | Yoknapatawpha County Map: In his 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom! | | | According to Faulkner, Yoknapatawpha means "water flowing slow through the flatland." Arthur F. Kinney, however, postulates an additional possibility for the origin and meaning of the name. | | | The name "Yoknapatawpha" is apparently derived from two Chickasaw words: Yocona and petopha, meaning "split land." According to some sources, that was the original name for the Yocona River, also an actual river running through southern Lafayette County. |
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| | Yoknapatawpha County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional county created by American author William Faulkner as a setting for many of his novels. | | | This page was last modified 18:45, 17 October 2005. | | | The play Requiem for a Nun (1951) is also set in Yoknapatawpha County. |
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| | THE GHOST TOWNS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER by Dr. Carl Edwin Lindgren |
| | Such are the non-fictitious ghost towns of William Faulkner's mystical Yoknapatawpha County -- which, by tradition, is bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River, and to the South by the Yocona (patawpha) River. | | | Yet today, only long stretches of road dotted with deserted buildings and shattered dreams remain - lands which Faulkner traversed as a youth, and lands which were, later in life, vivid inspirations for his chronicles of a proud town and the countryside it rested within. | | | But, today only memories, the sounds, scents, and sights of Ptocowa, exist in the fond recollections of the county's eldest citizens. |
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| | Sartoris paper: Maureen Fuson |
| | In Yoknapatawpha County reside the people who were born in William Faulkner's imagination: the ones he had known and transformed, the ones he invented outright, and the ones who were shadows of himself. | | | The first novel in the Yoknapatawpha saga, Sartoris, contains many characters who are seen again in later novels, and is, with the exception of The Unvanquished, perhaps the most autobiographical. | | | While Wasson may have lessened the contrast between the two characters, there still remains significant differences which correspond to two facets of the author's personality. |
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| | Chuck Lamar Bio |
| | An active family man, Chuck lives with his wife Caroline and daughter Macy in Oxford. | | | Charles Lamar -- Experience and Leadership working for Yoknapatawpha County. | | | His combined 23 years of experience with the Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's office make him the clear leader for the job. |
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| | The Southern Register - Center Publishes William Faulkner Posters |
| | Dain was completing work on his book Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner's County when he made the photograph. | | | The Dain Collection, which consists of 8,734 33mm images, contains some 150 images of Faulkner near his stable with his dogs and horses. | | | Dain, now a resident of Carmel Valley, California, photographed in Lafayette County during 1961 and 1962 resulting in his classic 1964 book Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner's County. |
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| | Alain Desvergnes |
| | The result of his three year stay in Mississippi is Yoknapatawpha, published by Marval in 1990. | | | It was here that he read the works of William Faulkner, and fell in love with Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. | | | Inspired by Faulkner's words, Desvergnes sought to photograph Yoknapatawpha County, documenting both its beauty and its sorrow, which was visually unknown in Europe. |
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| | Oxford, Mississippi |
| | The population of the city is 12,096 and the fall enrollment for the University in 1999 was 10,916. | | | Lafayette County was one of ten counties into which Chickasaw Cession was divided. | | | Oxford, Mississippi, the home of William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, is keeping in step with modern growth, while holding to its special, old-fashioned small-town warmth and charm. |
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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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| | PH@school: Literature: Author Biographies |
| | Yet, although he used a variety of forms and techniques in his novels and short stories, most of his works are linked through a common setting—the fictional world of Yoknapatawpha county, Mississippi. | | | Despite the critical success of some of his works, Faulkner did not earn widespread public recognition until 1946, when The Portable Faulkner—an anthology in which many of his writings about Yoknapatawpha County were presented in chronological order—was published. | | | In his work he experimented with narrative chronology, explored multiple points of view, and delved deeply into the minds of his characters. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Yoknapatawpha County , Mississippi (MS) - (county) - Facts and Information |
| | 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. | | | Capital city or county seat is shown by the symbol |
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| | Included in the collection are interior photographs of Faulkner's home, some of the few taken while Faulkner was living there, and approximately 150 different images of Faulkner, his horses, and his dogs near the stable at Rowan Oak. | | | Dain, an ardent admirer of Faulkner, is one of the few who photographed the author at Rowan Oak, his home in Oxford, Mississippi. | | | The original book, now a collector's item, is worth anywhere from $80 to $125, according to Richard Howorth, owner of Oxford's Square Books. |
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| | SparkNotes: The Sound and the Fury: Context |
| | These locales became the setting for a number of his works. | | | Faulkner grew up in the town of Oxford, Mississippi, and eventually returned there in his later years and purchased his famous estate, Rowan Oak. | | | Faulkner populates Yoknapatawpha County with the skeletons of old mansions and the ghosts of great men, patriarchs and generals from the past whose aristocratic families fail to live up to their historical greatness. |
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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! | | | The county has two main roads, both intersecting the town of Oxford, which is situated fairly close to the middle of the region. |
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| | Absalom |
| | In writing the history of Yoknapatawpha County, Faulkner is also creating his version of the history of the South, the story of how a land that had produced great leaders became a land of people haunted by their past. | | | And the ramifications are innumerable, for most of Faulkner's career as a writer has been devoted to the history of Yoknapatawpha County, the setting of the main story in Absalom, Absalom! | | | The style of writing is passionately rhetorical: rather than breaking ideas into their logically clear components, Faulkner ties them together through their emotional connections and through their relations in the obsessed minds of speakers totally familiar with all of their ramifications. |
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| | djournal.com |
| | Weaving quotes from Faulkner's works that describe the flora of Yoknapatawpha, this garden brings the author's words to life. | | | William Faulkner, one of Mississippi's most esteemed literary figures, is most closely associated with Oxford, and pilgrims from around the world have made the trek to this small university town in search of the fabled Yoknapatawpha County. | | | Actually, the genesis for Yoknapatawpha may have been in Union County for on Sept. 25, 1897, William Faulkner was born in New Albany. |
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| | Faulkner's World |
| | Most first appeared in Dain's Faulkner's County: Yoknapatawpha (1964), which has been out of print for many years and in high demand among Faulkner admirers everywhere. | | | Faulkner's World, published now in celebration of Faulkner's centenary, includes several pictures that were not in Dain's earlier book. | | | In the nearly four decades since Dain made this rare photographic record of Yoknapatawpha, his images have become familiar icons. |
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http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/f/faulkners_world.html
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| | Smoky Mountain News Mountain Voices |
| | If he or she didn’t write a bang-up description of at least one of the local jails, the sponsoring publication’s editor would have to reckoned with upon return home. | | | That’s Faulkner’s rendering of how first the county records, then the county jail, and finally the courthouse itself were created in his mythical Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi in the 19th century. | | | Upon reading this account, the Eastern Band members must have been pleasantly astonished to learn that they owned so much property. |
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http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/03_02/03_27_02/mtn_voices.html
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| | Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time |
| | On this WebQuest, you will learn a bit about the life and work of William Faulkner, and you'll jump into Yoknapatawpha County, Faulkner's mythical world. | | | You may also find it helpful to review ClassicNote’s summary and analysis of each of the chapters. | | | It includes a stunningly comprehensive “Faulkner Glossary,” a “Yoknapatawpha timeline,” and a massive section devoted just to The Sound and the Fury. |
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http://webpages.shepherd.edu/ltate/WebQuestFaulkner.htm
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| | Faulkner, William on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Most of his novels are set in Yoknapatawpha county, an imaginary area in Mississippi with a colorful history and a richly varied population. | | | The county is a microcosm of the South as a whole, and Faulkner's novels examine the effects of the dissolution of traditional values and authority on all levels of Southern society. | | | One of his primary themes is the abuse of blacks by the Southern whites. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/F/FaulknerW1.asp
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| | PAL: William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| | Faulkner and the Short Story: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1990. | | | Today he is regarded as an important interpreter of the universal theme of "the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself." He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, which became the prototype of Jefferson, in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, the setting of many of his works. | | | It opened up a gold mine of other people, so I created a cosmos of my own." - WF Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, Faulkner's recognition as a writer came years after he had written his best work. |
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http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/faulkner.html
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