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Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
William Faulkner is widely regarded not only as the greatest American novelist but also as one of the great novelists of world literature. Born September 25, 1897, in New...
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William Faulkner - (1897 - 1962)
(Born William Cuthbert Falkner; changed surname to Faulkner) American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and essayist.
A preeminent figure in twentieth-...
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Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet and educator. Her poetry earned her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945.Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcaya on April 6, 1889, at Vicu&ntild...
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Gabriela Mistral, literary pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was the first Spanish American author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature; as such, she will always be seen as a representative figu...
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Biography EssayWilliam 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 r...
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William Faulkner (1897-1962), a major American 20th-century novelist, chronicled the decline and decay of the aristocratic South with an imaginative power and psychological depth that transcend mere r...
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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 releas...
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In explaining the comic side of William Faulkner's fiction, it soon becomes apparent how indivisible it is from the tragic side and how the two are almost inextricably intertwined. Early critics who m...
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William Faulkner, one of the great American novelists of the twentieth century, was also a screenwriter. The first of four brothers, he was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the son of Murry Cuthbert a...
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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 hi...
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Critical Essay by Kenneth G. Johnston
The sound of ticking clocks and watches often provides the accompaniment for William Faulkner's tales of decline and change in the South. A clock strikes t...
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Critical Essay by Richard Gray
How can we be "in" history and "outside" it at one and the same time? The problem that dogged Faulkner throughout his career can be stated as...
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Critical Essay by John T. Irwin
My sense of the relationship between Faulkner, Freud, and Nietzsche is that they were writers who addressed themselves to many of the same questions, and that at numero...
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Critical Essay by Warren Beck
As a fictionist Faulkner was not of any school, nor would he have abetted or blessed the recruitment of one…. In each work, and throughout each, he is his own man;...
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Critical Essay by Michael Grimwood
William Faulkner's "address upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature" is a classic statement of humanist affirmation. (p. 366)
The text tha...
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth M. Kerr
Faulkner was both a realist and a romanticist and was positively Gothic: an artist can view life from various perspectives if his vision is sufficiently comprehensi...
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Critical Essay by Claude-edmonde Magny
It may seem an exaggeration to look for [the] theological substructures in Faulkner's work, yet the critics have all been struck by his "puritanism...
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Critical Essay by Tony J. Owens
Although some of William Faulkner's short fiction is beginning to receive the critical attention it has long deserved, those stories that resist ready categoriza...
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Critical Essay by Lisa Paddock
"Mistral" combines the mysterious death of a young village man on the eve of his wedding, with a priest's illicit passion for his beautiful female w...
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Critical Essay by Cleanth Brooks
Many informed Americans now consider William Faulkner to be the greatest American fiction writer of the 20th century and just possibly in our history. But his achievem...
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Critical Essay by M. E. Bradford
[Faulkner's short fiction that was] not included in Collected Stories and Knight's Gambit—has survived only in the bound files of old magazines an...
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Critical Essay by Calvin S. Brown
The Uncollected Stories is not merely an act of publication, but a work of serious and useful scholarship. As the editor explains, it "consists of three kinds ...
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Critical Essay by Cleanth Brooks
[Brooks, one of the most notable scholars of Faulkner, says of his William Faulkner: First Encounters: "[This book] has been written for the general reader and ...
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Critical Essay by Alfred Kazin
The problem that faces every student of Faulkner's writing is its lack of a center, the gap between his power and its source, that curious abstract magnificence (...
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Critical Essay by Clifton Fadiman
I came to every new Faulkner opus wearily determined to see in it what my betters saw. No more than the next man do I enjoy looking like a dunce. But, no matter how h...
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Critical Essay by Michael Millgate
It is necessary to emphasise that Faulkner in his best work is not concerned with ideas in any abstract sense. His preoccupations are not intellectual but moral; wha...
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Critical Essay by Arthur F. Kinney
Mayday is derivative in idea and technique, a product of a self-conscious affecting of Symbolist art quivering at its own fragility in a harsh and cruel world at the...
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Critical Essay by Calvin S. Brown
Mayday itself is not, as one might expect, a fumbling piece of apprentice-work, but a skillful and amusing exercise in a very minor literary genre which might be desc...
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Critical Essay by Sean O'faolain
[Faulkner] was a richly gifted writer and there are times when he writes with real genius. He is keenly observant, and when he so wishes can be stereoscopically...
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In the following essay, Rossky sketches a pattern of stasis and paralysis which produces a nightmare effect in William Faulkner's Sanctuary, contributing to its criticism of modern society and ...
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In the following essay, Simpson examines William Faulkner's works as they demonstrate the fusion and interiorization of history and sexuality in the modern consciousness.
As defined by the dist...
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In the following essay, Hlavsa outlines the facets of modernist writing and distinguishes Faulkner as a modernist writer.
Although Faulkner is frequently called a Romantic, it is time that he be place...
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In the following essay, Radloff discusses the concept of demonism in Faulkner's works.
The spirit of revenge, my friends, has so far been the subject of man's best reflection; and wherev...
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In the following essay, Bercovitch takes what he calls a “counterdisciplinary” approach to Faulkner's works.
By “Faulknerian Context” I mean to suggest a reversal of...
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In the following essay, Lessig examines the historical realm of poor Southern whites and Faulkner's portrayal and opinion of them in his Snopes fiction.
Addressing the “recent aberration...
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In the following essay, Andrews discusses affinities Faulkner's writings have with the French symbolists and argues that these similarities confirm Faulkner as a uniquely American writer.
Despi...
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In the following essay, Taylor argues that Faulkner's portrayal of the experience of African Americans in the South ultimately fails to provide an accurate picture.
The “sense of how neg...
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Racism is defined as prejudice or discrimination against a person or group because of a difference of race. This is the major theme and conflict in William Faulkner's Light in August. The portraya...
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Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
William Faulkner - (1897 - 1962)
Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
Critical Essay by Kenneth G. Johnston
Racism in "Light and August"
