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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner | |
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| 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
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 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... summary from source:
 Biography of William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
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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... summary from source:
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 pagesAbsalom, 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... summary from source:
 Absalom, Absalom! Information
1,468 words, approx. 5 pages
 Absalom, Absalom! is a Southern Gothic novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1936. It is a story about three families of the American South, taking place before, during, and after the Civil War, with the focus of the story on the...
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10/16/2005: 1,209 words, approx. 4 pagesChalk 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...
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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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner | |
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