Reading William Faulkner

Reading William Faulkner
Author: John Lennard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2012
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 9781847601995

Faulkner is notoriously a 'difficult' writer to study, especially for first-time readers. This Literature Insight begins with three chapters clearly setting out the important facts of his life, mapping the people and history of his recurrent fictional setting, Yoknapatawpha County, and analysing the oddities and problems of his prose style. Later chapters turn directly to his great novel 'Go Down, Moses' and his later collection 'Big Woods', dealing in detail with each story and the intertexts and showing how they connect and add up to something much more than loose collections. Readers new to Faulkner will find it a very helpful introduction to his world, and those already familiar with him a valuable resource.

Reading William Faulkner: 'Go Down, Moses' & 'Big Woods'

Reading William Faulkner: 'Go Down, Moses' & 'Big Woods'
Author: John Lennard
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847601987

Faulkner is notoriously a 'difficult' writer to study, especially for first-time readers. This Literature Insight begins with three chapters clearly setting out the important facts of his life, mapping the people and history of his recurrent fictional setting, Yoknapatawpha County, and analysing the oddities and problems of his prose style. Later chapters turn directly to his great novel 'Go Down, Moses' and his later collection 'Big Woods', dealing in detail with each story and the intertexts and showing how they connect and add up to something much more than loose collections. Readers new to Faulkner will find it a very helpful introduction to his world, and those already familiar with him a valuable resource.

Go Down, Moses

Go Down, Moses
Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-05-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307792145

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” —William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize Go Down, Moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkner’s mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight.

The Bear

The Bear
Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1443423203

Isaac McCaslin is obsessed with hunting down Old Ben, a mythical bear that wreaks havoc on the forest. After this feat is accomplished, Isaac struggles with his relationship to nature and to the land, which is complicated when he inherits a large plantation in Yoknapatawapha County. “The Bear” is included in William Faulkner’s novel, Go Down, Moses. Although primarily known for his novels, Faulkner wrote in a variety of formats, including plays, poetry, essays, screenplays, and short stories, many of which are highly acclaimed and anthologized. Like his novels, many of Faulkner’s short stories are set in fictional Yoknapatawapha County, a setting inspired by Lafayette County, where Faulkner spent most of his life. His first short story collection, These 13 (1931), includes many of his most frequently anthologized stories, including "A Rose for Emily", "Red Leaves" and "That Evening Sun." HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.

Big Woods

Big Woods
Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: New York : Random House
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1955
Genre: Hunters
ISBN:

The hunter and the hunted are movingly portrayed in four stories with preludes and an epilogue that link the individual narratives.

Reading Dickens's Bleak House

Reading Dickens's Bleak House
Author: Richard Gravil
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847602169

This readers; guide to Bleak House begins with a general introduction to Dickens in the context of his times, stressing the public themes of the novel and the experimental aspects of its technique. Later chapters contain a survey of its major characters and aspects of Dickens's characterization; the pleasures of serial reading; a detailed analysis of several key passages; an exploration of Dickens's craft and the status of this novel as an experimental fiction; a discussion of Dickens and; the woman question; and a survey of critical reception of what many regard as Dickens's greatest novel.

A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner

A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner
Author: Edmond L. Volpe
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0815630395

The new guide, the first comprehensive book of its kind, offers analyses of all Faulkner's short stories, published and unpublished, that were not incorporated into novels or turned into chapters of a novel. Seventy-one stories receive individual critical analysis and evaluation. These discussions reveal the relationship of the stories to the novels and point up Faulkner's skills as a writer of short fiction. Although Faulkner often spoke disparagingly of the short story form and claimed that he wrote stories for moneywhich he didEdmond L. Volpe's study reveals that Faulkner could not escape even in this shorter form his incomparable fictional imagination nor his mastery of narrative structure and technique.

Ruin and Resilience

Ruin and Resilience
Author: Daniel Spoth
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2023-04-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0807180041

In Ruin and Resilience, Daniel Spoth confronts why the environmental stories told about the U.S. South curve inevitably toward distressing plotlines. Examining more than a dozen works of postbellum literature and cinema, Spoth’s analysis winds from John Muir’s walking journey across the war-torn South, through the troubling of southern environmentalism’s modernity by Faulkner and Hurston, past the accounts of its acceleration in Welty and O’Connor, and finally into the present, uncovering how the tragic econarrative is transformed by contemporary food studies, climate fiction, and speculative tales inspired by the region. Phrased as a reaction to the rising temperatures and swelling sea levels in the South, Ruin and Resilience conceptualizes an environmental, ecocritical ethos for the southern United States that takes account of its fundamentally vulnerable status and navigates the space between its reactionary politics and its ecological failures.

New Essays on Go Down, Moses

New Essays on Go Down, Moses
Author: Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1996-06-13
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780521456098

A collection of critical essays for the general reader on Faulkner's Go Down, Moses.

T S Eliot: 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock' and 'The Waste Land'

T S Eliot: 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock' and 'The Waste Land'
Author: C J Ackerley
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847600158

Contents: Part 1: Before The Waste Land. Part 2:' The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock'. Part 3: The Waste Land - including The Role of Ezra Pound; The Dramatic Consciousness; The Mythic Consciousness; The Epigraph. Part 4: A Commentary on The Waste Land. Part 5: Bibliography. Part 6: Hyperlinked texts - a valuable compendium of the key works Eliot quotes or alludes to in The Waste Land