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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... called " silent thunder " ( CSWF , 898 ) . He called such moments here the " one physical ideality which all the novels which I had believed good had possessed " : This was that the action , the desires of the people all came to one ...
... called Cho - Cho , was born in Hawaii ten months later , on February 8 , 1919 , and now , ironically , there began a period when Estelle and Faulkner were frequently together in Ox- ford . In the first of several extended returns home ...
... called " blackguard " by the brother ) . This is part of a recurring pattern in the fiction of the 1920s involving women and miscarried marriages . Caddy is thrown out by Sydney Herbert Head ; Narcissa and Margaret Pow- ers are widowed ...
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