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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... vision " of the sermon in the vision of Christian redemption for which it argues , but it is clear from this and re- lated passages that it is not Christ but Shegog himself who is transformed for the skeptical congregation - from a ...
... vision of Temple floating " in nothingness filled with pale , myriad points of light " is very like Gerontion's vision of the abused women of the poem . Unlike mythic Calisto , who was raped by a god and placed in the sky as the ...
... vision in the " soundless words " ( CSWF , 899 ) so often associated in Faulkner with writing.21 His aspiration is " to perform something bold and tragical and austere " ( CSWF , 899 ) , and the story concludes with such a performance ...
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