| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages) : illustrations |
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Literary modernism series |
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Literary modernism series.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations Used -- Preface -- 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 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Contributions in autobiography
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Correspondence
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| SUBJECT |
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 fast |
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Letter writing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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American letters -- History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States
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Self-presentation in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Autobiography.
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autobiography (genre)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American letters
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Autobiography
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Letter writing
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Modernism (Literature)
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Self-presentation in literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Personal correspondence
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99042423 |
| ISBN |
0292797990 |
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9780292797994 |
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