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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... hand the bellowing hammering away like no place for it in silence , " the photograph passage is followed by ... hands " describes both the picture Quentin subjectively sees and the pro- cess by which he figuratively develops it ...
... hand puppet ( so , 164 , 166 , 167 ; SR 138 , 141 ) and " lifting her slowly erect by that one hand " ( SO , 166 ; SR , 141 ) . There is no saving Temple from this usage by men . At the courthouse she is again a marionette , her face ...
... hands . The language of the scene is drawn from the just previous description of two figures Horace sees in a Memphis ... hand and pen on the blank manuscript page , Faulkner brought to life in his novel the young woman he loved and had ...
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