William Faulkner Summary
Gabriela Mistral

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 numer... Read more

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... Read more

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 "puritanis... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 a... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 th... Read more

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 stereoscopicall... Read more

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 d... Read more

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 whe... Read more

In the following essay, Holland-Toll explores the pattern of alienation and absence in Faulkner's tragic novels. Between the conception        ... Read more

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. De... Read more

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... Read more