William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and PerformanceUniversity of Texas Press, 2000 - 255 Seiten From the beginning, William Faulkner's art was consciously self-presenting. In writing of all kinds he created and "performed" a complex set of roles based in his life as he both lived and imagined it. In his fiction, he counterpoised those personae against one another to create a written world of controlled chaos, made in his 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 even photographs, to decipher the complicated ways in which Faulkner put himself forth through written performances and displays based in and expressive of his emotional biography. The topics Watson treats include the overtly performative aspects of The Sound and the Fury and related manuscripts and privately written records of Faulkner's life; the ways in which his complicated marriage and his relationships to male mentors underlie recurring motifs in his fiction such as marriage and fatherhood; his reading of Melville, Hawthorne, and Thoreau, and his working out through them the problematics of authorial sovereignty; his presentation of himself as "Old Moster," the artist-God of his fictional cosmos; and the complex of personal and epistolary relationships that lies behind novels from Soldiers' Pay to Requiem for a Nun. |
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... wrote in the years immediately preceding The Sound and the Fury turn on such a figure and the power of his imag- ination to transform experience . The inarticulate Wilfred Midgleston of the " Black Music " ( ca. 1925-1926 ) is a " small ...
... wrote in the years immediately preceding The Sound and the Fury turn on such a figure and the power of his imag- ination to transform experience . The inarticulate Wilfred Midgleston of the " Black Music " ( ca. 1925-1926 ) is a " small ...
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... her death in 1931 had been a force in the making of the novel he wrote in 1928-1929 . " I , who had three brothers and no sisters , " he said in the familiar passage retained in both published Self - Presentation and Performance 9.
... her death in 1931 had been a force in the making of the novel he wrote in 1928-1929 . " I , who had three brothers and no sisters , " he said in the familiar passage retained in both published Self - Presentation and Performance 9.
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... ms e , where Faulkner distances himself somewhat by extending his imaginative identification to include other characters . Until he wrote the fourth section and " made a novel of it , " he said , " I was inside 10 WILLIAM FAULKNER.
... ms e , where Faulkner distances himself somewhat by extending his imaginative identification to include other characters . Until he wrote the fourth section and " made a novel of it , " he said , " I was inside 10 WILLIAM FAULKNER.
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... wrote the book became a celebration of writing as an act , ex- pressed in a passage elevated to performance not only by its language but also by his strategically disclaiming the ability to describe the elation that the words following ...
... wrote the book became a celebration of writing as an act , ex- pressed in a passage elevated to performance not only by its language but also by his strategically disclaiming the ability to describe the elation that the words following ...
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... wrote , was the expressive power of a fictional moment in which charac- ter , action , and event coalesced into a single picture , soundless , as he de- scribed it , yet inherently in motion with life , partaking of that quality of ...
... wrote , was the expressive power of a fictional moment in which charac- ter , action , and event coalesced into a single picture , soundless , as he de- scribed it , yet inherently in motion with life , partaking of that quality of ...
Inhalt
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15 | |
III Marriage Matters | 67 |
IV Whos Your Old Man? | 100 |
V Stage Manager | 133 |
VI Old Moster | 169 |
Notes | 206 |
Works Cited | 232 |
Index | 242 |
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Seite 122 - and bob-ends of old tales and talking, people who perhaps had never existed at all anywhere, who, shadows, were shadows not of flesh and blood which had lived and died but shadows in turn of what were (to one of them at least, to Shreve) shades too) quiet as the visible murmur of their
Seite 5 - the congregation seemed to watch with its own eyes while the voice consumed him, until he was nothing and they were nothing and there was not even a voice but instead their hearts were speaking to one another in chanting measures beyond the need for words
Seite 159 - indulge themselves in such confidential depths of revelation as could fittingly be addressed, only and exclusively, to the one heart and mind of perfect sympathy; as if the printed book, thrown at large on the wide world, were certain to find out the divided segment of the writer's own nature, and complete his circle of existence by bringing him into communion with it.
Seite 179 - equal to any, good as any, brave as any, being inextricable from, anonymous with all of them: the beautiful, the splendid, the proud and the brave, right on up to the very top itself among the shining phantoms and dreams which are the milestones of the
Seite 5 - when he came to rest against the reading desk, his monkey face lifted and his whole attitude that of a serene, tortured crucifix that transcended its shabbiness and insignificance and made it of no moment, a long moaning expulsion of breath rose from them, and a woman's
Seite 129 - a kind of entailed birthright father and son and father and son of never forgiving General Sherman, so that forever more as long as your children's children produce children you wont be anything but a descendant of a long line of colonels killed in Pickett's
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