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Light in August 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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Light in August Information
1,745 words, approx. 6 pages
<i>Light in August</i> is a 1932 novel by the American author William Faulkner. Light in August is an exploration of racial conflict in the society of the Southern United States. The title of the book was inspired by the special light that illuminates...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by André Bleikasten
8,427 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Bleikasten explores Light in August in light of Faulkner's depiction of Southern society in the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on his treatment of outsiders by the community.
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Critical Essay by David R. Jarraway
6,154 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Jarraway explores gothic identity in Light in August in terms of Julia Kristeva's post-Freudian psychoanalysis.
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Essay Grade: 90%
Faulkner's Mold: the Women of Light in August
2,540 words, approx. 9 pages
Essay discusses "The Women of Light in August" by William Faulkner and his negative portrayal of them.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Abuse of Authority in the McEchern Family in "Light in August"
1,469 words, approx. 5 pages
In the novel "Light in August" by William Faulkner, the McEchern family abuses authority in a variety of ways that carry a result in a broad array of consequences.
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Essay Grade: 92%
A Different Kind of Woman
1,158 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay provides an analysis of the novel, "Light in August" by William Faulkner.
 


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Light in August by William Faulkner

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