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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... father is a blank sheet wrapped around the key to his trunk.53 Yet Quentin's father is with him all day , an absent presence whom he honors in his life and thought as Faulkner did Murry in his letters . Both fathers are inventions — as ...
... father was not available to him at home , he clearly was accessible in and through the letters his son wrote him from New Haven and Toronto and Paris . The Murry of those letters , essentially , is the dependable , written father ...
... father was . Of course narrative authority is at issue in paternal identity , as well : what Mr. Compson learns from General Compson , Quentin learns from his father and recasts still more plausibly with Shreve , who " sounds just like ...
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