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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... summer uniform of " trunks and a cork helmet ... and the eternal stick " ( TofH , 79 ) that he drew for her in mid - July [ Fig . 6 ] . There was a good bit in that letter , as well , about his instructors ' heroics in the trenches of ...
... summer . Estelle was in Ox- ford from May 1921 through the end of that summer , when Cornell joined them briefly . He had not been reappointed to the federal judgeship in Hawaii , and when the family left Oxford it was for his new ...
... summer working on Mosquitoes , which is dedicated to her . Estelle spent the summer of 1926 at Monteagle , Tennessee , and she had left for Shanghai by October when Faulkner hand - printed and -bound for her the manuscript book Royal ...
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