William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance (Literary Modernism Series). James G. Watson

William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance (Literary Modernism Series)



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Language: English
Page: 271
ISBN: 0292791518, 9780292791510

From Library Journal

Displaying an astonishing familiarity with every day of Faulkner's life and every line of his work, Watson (English, Univ. of Tulsa) demonstrates that, from the beginning of his career, the Mississippi writer used the people (including his father), anxieties, and experiences of his life in nearly every facet of his fiction. Faulkner projected his state of mind while staying at Yale into the character of Quentin Compson at Harvard in The Sound and the Fury and the emotional turmoil of his sexual relationship with Estelle Oldham into Temple Drake of Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun. The author's discussion of Faulkner's art as self-presentation and performance begins with an analysis of a series of photographs taken after World War I through which he tried to convey the flamboyance of a flyer and soldier. It continues with an interpretation of his early play Marionettes and ends with a discussion of Requiem for a Nun. Watson's study will help revive interest in the very early works and will give additional resonance to several of Faulkner's novels, particularly The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary, and Absalom, Absalom! Recommended for university libraries.DCharles C. Nash, Cottey Coll., Nevada, MO
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Review

"Intersecting biography and criticism, this book is essential for [library] collections supporting Faulkner and American literature." - Choice "Displaying an astonishing familiarity with every day of Faulkner's life and every line of his work, Watson demonstrates that, from the beginning of his career, the Mississippi writer used the people (including his father), anxieties, and experiences of his life in nearly every facet of his fiction... Watson's study will help revive interest in the very early works and will give additional resonance to several of Faulkner's novels, particularly The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary, and Absalom, Absalom!" - Library Journal "The relations between biography and fiction, between experience and creation, form a seamless tapestry under Watson's expert hand... Watson's book is a delicately nuanced study of a complex and compelling writer, whose work continues to yield fresh surprises. It brings us closer than before to the man he must have been and earns for the book a place on the list of essential Faulkner studies." - Faulkner Newsletter



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