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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... sexual- ity . Horace's letter on that day is prompted by the sexuality of young women Caddy's age - at the end of Chapter 17 , when Clarence Snopes an- nounces that Temple is in a Memphis brothel , Horace looks into his pho- tograph of ...
... sexual intercourse . Emerson refers to the " oestrum of speech , " to " spermatic , prophesying man - making words , " to thought being " ejaculated as Logos or Word . " 16 noth beto ་ གནམས་ ons ce trad Sexuality provided Faulkner a ...
... sexual conflicts in the novels , does not result from the sexual exploitation of one race by another . Nor is that historical reality either in- vestigated in the novels or condemned.24 Go Down , Moses is quite an- other case . The ...
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