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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

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Author Biography

Name: William Faulkner
Birth Date: September 25, 1897
Death Date: July 6, 1962
Place of Birth: New Albany, Mississippi, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, author

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Biography of William Faulkner
13762 words, approx. 45.9 pages
William Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as ready to release the imagination as it is to channel it. Each of Faulk...
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Biography of William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
12876 words, approx. 42.9 pages
William Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as ready to release the imagination as it is to channel it. Each of Faulk...
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Biography of William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
10369 words, approx. 34.6 pages
William Faulkner was first and foremost a novelist, and much of his achievement in the short-story form is closely related to his accomplishment as a novelist. This does not necessarily imply that his short stories are second to his novels in all respect...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner - 1936 Summary
9,628 words, approx. 32 pages
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner - 1936 Introduction William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! (1936) is considered by many critics and scholars to be one of the most important and influential American novels by one of the greatest authors of the...
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Absalom, Absalom! Information
1,468 words, approx. 5 pages
Absalom, Absalom! Author William Faulkner Country United States Language English Genre(s) Southern Gothic Publisher Vintage (publisher) Publication date January 30, 1991 (Reissue edition) Media type Print ( Paperback ) Pages 320 pages ISBN ISBN...


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The New York Observer
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The New York Observer
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10/16/2005: 1,209 words, approx. 4 pages
Chalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-realistic horror, while others about-faced into fantasy. What Jane Smiley did, as...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Paul Rosenzweig
2,255 words, approx. 8 pages
In Absalom, Absalom! the richness of texture and detail is so great that the full effect of the many narrative frames is easily obfuscated. The comparison between the present (the narrative frames) and the past (Sutpen's story) accentuates many of the central themes of the primary story, imparting a sense of timelessness to the story and showing how myth is created to contrast with the reality from which it grows. Yet a far more subtle and revolutionary effect of the novel's overlapping and in...


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