William Faulkner : self-presentation and performance
"In this 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
University of Texas Press, Austin, 2000
Autobiographies
xvi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780292791312, 9780292791510, 0292791313, 0292791518
42049268
I. Self-Presentation and Performance
II. Photographs, Letters, and Fictions
III. Marriage Matters
IV. Who's Your Old Man?
V. Stage Manager
VI. Old Moster