William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and PerformanceUniversity of Texas Press, 2002 - 271 Seiten In his life and writings, William Faulkner continually created and "performed" selves. Even in letters, he often played a part—gentleman dandy, soldier, farmer—while in his fictions these and other personae are counterpoised against one another to create a world of controlled chaos, made in Faulkner's own protean image and reflective of his own multiple sense of self. In this groundbreaking book, James Watson draws on the entire Faulkner canon, including letters and photographs, to decipher the complicated ways in which Faulkner put himself forth as the artist he felt himself to be through written performances and displays based on the life he actually lived and the ones he imagined living. The topics Watson treats include the overtly performative aspects of The Sound and the Fury, self-presentation and performance in private records of Faulkner's life, the ways in which his complicated marriage and his relationships to male mentors underlie his fictions' recurring motifs of marriages and fatherhood, Faulkner's readings of Melville, Hawthorne, and Thoreau and the problematics of authorial sovereignty, his artist-as-God creation of a fictional cosmos, and the epistolary relationships with women that lie in the correspondence behind Requiem for a Nun. |
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Self-Presentation and Performance James G. Watson. Jame. G. Jason William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance Literary Modernism Series Thomas F. Front Cover.
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Self-Presentation and Performance James G. Watson. William Faulkner SelfPresentation and Performance by James G. Watson University of Texas Press, Austin A portion of this work originally appeared as “'My Father's.
Self-Presentation and Performance James G. Watson. ix xi xiii 17 ii. 70 iii. 103 iv. 136 v. 172 209 235 245. Contents. List of Illustrations Abbreviations Used Preface 1 i. vi. Self-Presentation and Performance Photographs, Letters, and ...
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I SelfPresentation and Performance | 1 |
II Photographs Letters and Fictions | 17 |
III Marriage Matters | 70 |
IV Whos Your Old Man? | 103 |
V Stage Manager | 136 |
VI Old Moster | 172 |
Notes | 209 |
235 | |
245 | |