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Faulkner, William
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The decade of the 1950s brought William Faulkner a recognition that had been long in coming. The Depression era had been extremely productive for America's greatest but most neglected novelist. The same years ... saw Faulkner pursuing a prolific parallel career as a Hollywood screenwriter as well as weathering some major crises in his personal life. By 1944 only one of his 17 books was still in print. Winning the 1949 Nobel Prize changed his life dramatically.
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Three authors whose writings showed a shift from disillusionment were Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck. Hemingway's early short stories and his first novels, The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), were full of the existential disillusionment of the Lost Generation expatriates.
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From Oxford, Miss., to Pirate's Alley in New Orleans to Rennes, France, to Tbilisi, Georgia, scholars and other Faulknerians are gathering today to commemorate the centenary of William Faulkner's birth. Faulkner himself would have been amazed to think he had such a worldwide following.
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Regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, William Faulkner relentlessly chronicled the condition of the antebellum American Deep South. Creating characters and stories within the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and beyond, Faulkner seamlessly blended the harsh realities of the southern condition with rich cultural histories of his own imagination.
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This source provides an excellent introduction to the terms, concepts, characters, and life of William Faulkner in a clear and comprehensive encyclopedic fashion. With more than fifty authoritative contributors and a variety of critical approaches—textual, biographical, historical/cultural, modernist, feminist—the entries are for both novices and well-versed Faulkner readers. It is reader-friendly, provides substantial coverage, and the text is clear and easy to comprehend.
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Doubling and incest/repetition and revenge / John T. Irwin -- The fate of design / Gary Lee Stonum -- William Faulkner / Carolyn Porter -- Family, region, and myth in Faulkner's fiction / David Minter -- Absalom, Absalom! and the house divided / Eric J. Sundquist -- Incredulous narration / Peter Brooks -- The "joint" of racism / James A. Snead.
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