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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... says of the camera is true of the camera- like technique of the story , that it " sets up the world as something to be looked - at rather than as something to be experienced from - the - point- of - view - of another or as a reciprocal ...
... says , in a dimension where " fact and fallacy gain verisimilitude by being in cold print " ( MOS , 251 ) . It is a realm very like that Quentin and Shreve will create orally in Absa- lom , Absalom ! when they " overpass to love " ( AA ...
... say what is crazy and what aint , " Cash Bundren says late in As I Lay Dying . " It's like there's a fellow in every man that's done a - past the san- ity or the insanity , that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with ...
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