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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... recalls in new combination Faulk- ner's foreshortened military moment in Canada , his presentation of him- self as an aviator on paper in various mediums , and the flash and glare of imaginative performance that informs the best of them ...
... recalls " lying beneath a low cozy roof under the long sound of rain " ( so , 218 ; SR , 221 ) . On the night of his drowning , Quentin walks the empty corridor at Harvard in the foot- steps of all the " sad generations seeking water ...
... recalls significant details of Faulkner's experience a decade and more earlier . The aviators of the war stories " Ad Astra " and " All the Dead Pilots " recall early Faulkner personae ; " Victory , " " That Evening Sun , " and " A ...
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