William Faulkner : self-presentation and performance

The Resource William Faulkner : self-presentation and performance
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William Faulkner : self-presentation and performance
Title remainder
self-presentation and performance
Statement of responsibility
by James G. Watson
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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
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Action
digitized
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
813/.52
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PS3511.A86
LC item number
Z985354 2000eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Literary modernism series

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