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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... wife . She had been married to Harry nine years , and Horace thought how it had required Harry's wife's promiscuity to render him [ Horace ] the affirmation of her chastity " ( so , 18 ) . This pas- sage also was cut from the revised ...
... wife and two sons at Greenfield Farm , and ser- vants he inherited from his grandfather and father , among them Mammy Caroline Barr and Ned Barnett , who moved to Rowan Oak with him and Estelle in 1930 . By all accounts , Faulkner loved ...
... wife Dallas visited Oxford to see the children.41 Jackie Shumann's unsettled life with Laverne is similar in a number of details . Like Mal- colm , whose paternity Cornell Franklin briefly called into question when Estelle filed for ...
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