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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... story about his adopting for an evening a wounded R.A.F. aviator and poet he called David . Based on that familiar Faulknerian persona , " A Meeting South " was published in the Dial the following April , when Faulkner described his and ...
... story and some others were beginning to unlock.26 In late 1935 " Wash " was incorporated into Absalom , Absalom !. In Chapter 6 Faulkner abandoned the tightly closed form of the published story in order to integrate the new subject ...
... Story Sending Schedule , ” pp . 165–180 . 10. Faulkner , These 13 : Stories by William Faulkner . Quotations from the stories are from Collected Stories . 11. See Meriwether , " Faulkner's Short Story Sending Schedule , " pp . 172-173 ...
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