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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
13,762 words, approx. 46 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...
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Biography of William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
10,369 words, approx. 35 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...
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Biography of William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
6,855 words, approx. 23 pages
 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 mistook Faulkner for a naturalist obviously...



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William Faulkner Quotes
2,923 words, approx. 10 pages
 William Cuthbert Faulkner ( September 25 , 1897 – July 6 , 1962 ) was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He was regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded...


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Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Summary
1,070 words, approx. 4 pages 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 Albany, Mississippi, Faulkner spent most of his life in Oxford, Mississippi, the...
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William Faulkner - (1897 - 1962) Summary
19,335 words, approx. 65 pages 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-century American literature, Faulkner created a...
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William Faulkner Information
3,256 words, approx. 11 pages
 William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist, film screenwriter, and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and...




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Oprah picks Cormac McCarthy's `The Road'
3/28/2007: 420 words, approx. 1 pages Don't expect a lot of sunshine in Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick. Publishing's leading hit-maker has chosen Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," a bleak, apocalyptic novel by an author who rarely talks to the media."It is so extraordinary," Winfrey said Wednesday. "I promise you, you'll...
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Philip Roth wins 1st ever Bellow prize
4/1/2007: 482 words, approx. 2 pages Literary awards are old news for Philip Roth, but his latest honor is truly special: The first ever PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, a $40,000 prize named for the late Nobel laureate and one of Roth's closest friends and literary heroes."To my...
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Missouri school gets Faulkner manuscript
8/1/2007: 565 words, approx. 2 pages Most of the works of literary master William Faulkner chronicle a troubled, tortured South. But an original handwritten manuscript donated to Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies shows his generous, funny side.The university announced the acquisition to its collection of Faulkner letters, manuscripts...
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Coetzee\'d5s Master Class in Literary Criticism
7/17/2007: 547 words, approx. 2 pages INNER WORKINGS: LITERARY ESSAYS 2000-2005By J.M. Coetzee Viking, 304 pages, $25.95 Each of the 21 essays included in Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 is named for the author whose works it examines, making the collectionâs table of contents read like a syllabus....



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Matthew Lessig
13,713 words, approx. 46 pages
 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.
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Racism in "Light and August"
1,075 words, approx. 4 pages
 The theme of racism in "Light in August" by William Faulkner shows the cruelty and unnecessariness of racism in the American South of the 1930s. Both whites and blacks in the novel are treated differently based upon their race or their perceive connections to their race.


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William Faulkner by Gabriela Mistral | |
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About 626 pages (187,712 words) in 40 products |
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