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Amid all that has been published about William Faulkner, one subject -- the nature of his thought -- remains largely unexplored. But, as Daniel Singal's new intellectual biography reveals, we can learn much about Faulkner's art by relating it to the cultural and intellectual discourse of his era, and much about that era by coming to terms with his art. Through detailed analyses of individual texts, from the earliest poetry through ###Go Down, Moses#, Singal traces Faulkner's attempt to liberate himself from the repressive Victorian culture in which he was raised by embracing the Modernist culture of the artistic avant-garde. To accommodate the conflicting demands of these two cultures, Singal shows, Faulkner created a complex and fluid structure of selfhood based on a set of dual identities -- one, that of a Modernist author writing on the most daring and subversive issues of his day, and the other, that of a southern country gentleman loyal to the conservative mores of his community. Indeed, it is in the clash between these two selves, Singal argues, that one finds the key to making sense of Faulkner.

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"Any future Faulkner biographer--and there will be others, rest assured of that--will find it difficult to surpass what Minter has accomplished."--Jonathan YardleyIn this highly acclaimed biography, David Minter draws upon a wealth of material, including the novelist's essays, interviews, published and unpublished letters, as well as his poems, stories, and novels, to illuminate the close relationship between the flawed life and the artistic achievement of one of twentieth-century America's most complex literary figures. In the process, he reveals a Faulkner who is powerful, vulnerable, real--every bit as fascinating as the characters he created. Anyone who has ever tarried in Yoknapatawpha County will find this a sensitive and readable account of the novelist's struggles in art and life. In his new preface, Minter locates his biography in relation to the changes in the literary critical landscape during the 1980s and discusses its departures from New Critical tenets about the relationship between authors' lives and their works. "An excellent book . . . It sets forth, often very sensitively, the elements of Faulkner's personality that make the fictional universe of Yoknapatawpha County assume the forms it takes in the major novels."--Louis D. Rubin, Jr."One emerges from reading [Minter's book] with a fresh understanding of Faulkner both as man and writer, with feelings of sympathy and, even more, admiration."--Richard Gray, Times Higher Education Supplement"The great virtue of David Minter's book is that he knows that the question of who a man was is less interesting than that of whom he wished to become . . . It is in the poems and the novels that we can trace the self to which Faulkner aspired."--Lachlan Mackinnon, Times Literary Supplement

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Ranging from 1916, when he was a shabbily dressed young Bohemian poet, to the last year of his life, when he was putting the finishing touches on his final novel "The Reivers, " this collection of interviews provides insights into Faulkner's craft, his home, and his daily world.

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Includes the author's trilogy about a pioneer family, set in rural Mississippi.

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Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joes tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man.

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First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.

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The Sartoris family, who embody the antebellum ideal of Southern honor and its transformation through war, defeat, and Reconstruction, are the focal point of this outstanding novel.

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At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren familys bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.

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The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues of the idiot Benjy and his brothers, Quentin and Jason.

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The members of a Southern family contribute their individual tribulations to this encompassing impression of rural poverty.

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At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member, including Addie, and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.

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An assortment of perverse characters act out this dramatic story of the kidnapping of a Mississippi debutante.

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Faulkner examines the changing relationship of black to white and of man to the land, and weaves a complex work that is rich in understanding of the human condition.

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The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."

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Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the stories in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound and the Fury. They deal with many of the themes found in the novels and with the subjects and characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner's. In "A Rose for Emily", the first of his stories to appear in a national magazine, a straightforward, neighborly narrator relates a tale of love, betrayal, murder, and implied necrophilia. The vicious Snopes family of The Hamlet trilogy turns up in "Barn Burning" (1938), about a son's response to the activities of his arsonist father. Other inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha County appearing here include Jason and Caddy Compson, childish witnesses to the terror of the pregnant black laundress in "That Evening Sun" (1930), who fears that her lover will murder her.

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Quentin Compson gradually learns about a secret from the past that threatens to destroy the Sutpen family.

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Three different ways to approach Faulkner, each of them representative of his work as a whole. Includes 'Spotted Horses,' 'Old Man,' and his famous 'The Bear.'

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This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. Among the 42 selections in this book are such classics as "A Bear Hunt, " "A Rose for Emily, " Two Soldiers, " and "The Brooch."

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An invaluable tool for study and self-assessment of the techniques involved in magnetic resonance imaging. With illustrations and photos throughout, this review book is the ultimate test prep and refresher for the ARRT Registry Examination in MRI.

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Three novels from the celebrated Southern writer chronicle offer a sampling of Faulkner's infamous Snopes saga--including The Mansion, which portrays the downfall of the rapacious, cruel dynasty--and his lesser-known comic novel The Reivers, which is...

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An essential collection of William Faulkner&#8217;s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material.<b> <br/></b><br/>This unique volume includes Faulkner&#8217;s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway&#8217;s <b>The Old Man and the Sea</b> (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay &#8220;On Criticism&#8221; and the beguiling &#8220;Note on A Fable.&#8221; It also contains eloquently opinionated public letters on everything from race relations and the nature of fiction to wild-squirrel hunting on his property. This is the most comprehensive collection of Faulkner&#8217;s brilliant non-fiction work, and a rare look into the life of an American master.

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Hailed by reviewers upon its publication more than thirty years ago, The Novels of William Faulkner remains the preeminent interpretation of Faulkner in the formalist critical tradition while it inspires Faulknerians of all methodologies. Part One contains detailed analyses of every novel from Soldiers' Pay to The Reivers, with particular emphasis on elucidation of character, theme, and structural technique. Part Two discusses interrelated patterns and preoccupations in Faulkner's writing generally. Insightful and well reasoned, Olga W. Vickery's work continues to be of enormous benefit to readers and scholars.

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