On William Faulkner

On William Faulkner
Author: Eudora Welty
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781578065707

Eudora Welty (1909-2001) and William Faulkner (1897-1962) were Mississippi's leading literary lions during the 20th century. This volume brings together Welty's reviews, essays, lectures, and musings on Faulkner.

The Wishing Tree

The Wishing Tree
Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2012-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307799638

A beautifully illustrated children’s book unlike any other—a tender and atmospheric tale written by William Faulkner as a present for his future stepdaughter “If you are kind to helpless things, you don’t need a Wishing Tree to make things come true.” A strange boy leads a birthday girl and her companions on a hunt for the wishing tree, which brings them many surprising and magical adventures. Written in 1927 and eventually published in 1964 as a limited edition featuring Don Bolognese’s striking illustrations, The Wishing Tree reveals another side to a visionary of American letters, making it a welcome gift to children and to all readers of Faulkner.

William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape

William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape
Author: Charles Shelton Aiken
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0820332194

Charles S. Aiken, a native of Mississippi who was born a few miles from Oxford, has been thinking and writing about the geography of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County for more than thirty years. William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape is the culmination of that long-term scholarly project. It is a fresh approach to a much-studied writer and a provocative meditation on the relationship between literary imagination and place. Four main geographical questions shape Aiken's journey to the family seat of the Compsons and the Snopeses. What patterns and techniques did Faulkner use--consciously or subconsciously--to convert the real geography of Lafayette County into a fictional space? Did Faulkner intend Yoknapatawpha to serve as a microcosm of the American South? In what ways does the historical geography of Faulkner's birthplace correspond to that of the fictional world he created? Finally, what geographic legacy has Faulkner left us through the fourteen novels he set in Yoknapatawpha? With an approach, methodology, and sources primarily derived from historical geography, Aiken takes the reader on a tour of Faulkner's real and imagined worlds. The result is an informed reading of Faulkner's life and work and a refined understanding of the relation of literary worlds to the real places that inspire them.

Faulkner, Mississippi

Faulkner, Mississippi
Author: Édouard Glissant
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Total Pages: 273
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780374153922

The Caribbean writer examines the racial complexities of Faulkner's works set in the fictitious Yoknapatawpha County

The Missing

The Missing
Author: Tim Gautreaux
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2010-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307454681

A masterful novel set in 1920s Louisiana, The Missing is the story of Sam Simoneaux, a floorwalker at a New Orleans department store. When a little girl is kidnapped on Sam’s watch he is haunted by guilt, grief, and ghosts from his own troubled past. Determined to find her, Sam sets out on a journey through a world of music and violence, where riverboats teem with drinking and dancing, and where dark swamplands conceal those who choose to live by their own laws. With the fate of the stolen child looming, The Missing vividly depicts an America lurching away from war, where civilization is only beginning to penetrate the hinterlands, and a man must choose between compassion and vengeance.

On Faulkner

On Faulkner
Author: Louis J. Budd
Publisher: Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. The journal has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of the discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts.

CliffsNotes on Faulkner's The Unvanquished

CliffsNotes on Faulkner's The Unvanquished
Author: James L Roberts
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1999-03-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0544184424

This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner
Author: John E. Bassett
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2009-05-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810867419

"William Faulkner (1897-1962) produced such enduring novels as The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and As I Lay Dying, as well as many short stories. His works continue to be a source of interest to scholars and students of literature, and the immense amount of criticism about the Nobel-prize winner continues to grow. Bassett provides an annotated listing of commentary in English on William Faulkner since the late 1980s. This volume dedicates its sections to book-length studies of Faulkner, commentaries on individual novels and short works, criticism covering multiple works, biographical and bibliographical sources, and other materials such as book reviews, doctoral dissertations, and brief commentaries. This bibliography provides a list of all significant recent commentary on Faulkner, and the annotations direct readers to those materials of most interest to them." -- From back of book.

Creating Faulkner's Reputation

Creating Faulkner's Reputation
Author: Lawrence H. Schwartz
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780870496455

A systematic approach to using currently available techniques of artificial intelligence to develop computer programs for commercial use. From basic concepts of knowledge engineering through managing a complete system. Schwartz (English, Montclair State College-NJ) asks: How was it possible for a writer, out-of-print and generally ignored in the early 1940s, to be proclaimed a literary genius in 1950? His research illuminates the process by which Faulkner was chosen to be revivified as an important American nationalist writer during the heating up of the Cold War. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Following Faulkner

Following Faulkner
Author: Taylor Hagood
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2017
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1571135871

An examination of how Faulkner's work has been analyzed, elucidated, and promoted by a massive body of scholarly work spanning over seven decades.