William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and PerformanceUniversity of Texas Press, 2000 - 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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... Orleans ( 1926 ) [ Fig . 18 ] , inscribed to Estelle in 1926 , constitutes a direct allusion to Beardsley's illustration " The Eyes of Herod " in Salome [ Fig . 19 ] . The Herod figure was excised from that draw- ing , but the figures ...
... Orleans in 1925 , Faulkner lived from January until March with Elizabeth Anderson and Anderson's teenage son Bob . Elizabeth mothered them both , housing and feeding them and even keeping their money.5 An- derson in 1925 was a genial ...
... Orleans , and with these a full measure of the speed and self - confidence he had found then writing Soldiers ' Pay . All of this conspired to ease the way of the novel he began in October and finished in December while Absalom , Ab ...
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