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Book William Faulkner s Use of the Tragic Mulatto Myth

Download or read book William Faulkner s Use of the Tragic Mulatto Myth written by Fay Elizabeth Beauchamp and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William Faulkner

Download or read book William Faulkner written by Carolyn Porter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newest volume in Oxford's Lives and Legacies series, Carolyn Porter, a leading authority on William Faulkner, offers an insightful account of Faulkner's life and work, with special focus on the breathtaking twelve-year period when he wrote some of the finest novels in American literature. Porter ranges from Faulkner's childhood in Mississippi to his abortive career as a poet, his sojourn in New Orleans (where he met a sympathetic Sherwood Anderson and wrote his first novel Soldier's Pay), his short but strategically important stay in Paris, his "rescue" by Malcolm Crowley in the late 1940s, and his winning of the Nobel Prize. But the heart of the book illuminates the formal leap in Faulkner's creative vision beginning with The Sound and the Fury in 1929, which sold poorly but signaled the arrival of a major new literary talent. Indeed, from 1929 through 1942, he would produce, against formidable odds--physical, spiritual, and financial--some of the greatest fictional works of the twentieth century, including As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses. Porter shows how, during this remarkably sustained burst of creativity, Faulkner pursued an often feverish process of increasingly ambitious narrative experimentation, coupled with an equally ambitious thematic expansion, as he moved from a close-up study of the white nuclear family, both lower and upper class, to an epic vision of southern, American, and ultimately Western culture. Porter illuminates the importance of Faulkner's legacy not only for American literature, but also for world literature, and reveals how Faulkner lives on so powerfully, both in the works of his literary heirs and in the lives of readers today.

Book Star Trek and the Tragic Hybrid

Download or read book Star Trek and the Tragic Hybrid written by Carolyn Burlingame-Goff and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spock, Data, Worf, B'Elanna Torres, Seven of Nine, Odo, Michael Burnham, Soji. Many of Star Trek's most beloved characters are children of two worlds, the products of competing biologies, materials, and cultures. Their popularity is unsurprising: authors mine conflicted identities for dramatic effect, and viewers see their own struggles reflected in the challenges of individuals who never seem to quite fit in. This book demonstrates that the tradition is not new. Spock and his fellow hybrids have their roots in anti-slavery literature. Abolitionist authors introduced protagonists who were both Black and White, yet not fully accepted as either. Divided at their core, the attempts of these noble yet tortured individuals to bridge their two races inevitably ended in tragedy. Gene Roddenberry and his successors thrust the character type into the future, using it to explore the evolving racial attitudes of their times. Star Trek's tragic hybrids have asked audiences to see beyond color, to embrace multiculturism, to accept mixed-race identity, and, finally, to acknowledge the consequences of systemic oppression.

Book The Contemporary Novel

Download or read book The Contemporary Novel written by Irving Adelman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition, what was already an expansive work has been updated and further enlarged to include information not only on American and British novelists but also on writers in English from around the world.

Book Faulkner s Families

Download or read book Faulkner s Families written by Gwendolyn Chabrier and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to show in detail how the families William Faulkner created in his novels reflect his own family experiences. Gwendolyn Chabrier shows how Faulkner's earliest work presents a gloomy view of family relations, characterized by misalliance, adultery, and incestuous relationships. But then, drawing on his own experience, Faulkner gradually came to a new view of the family, both his own and those he created, and worked through to his later novel where both his life and that of his fictional families became more peaceful and rewarding.

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Go Down Moses And Other Stories

Download or read book Go Down Moses And Other Stories written by William Faulkner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. His characters are humble people who live out their lives within the same small circle of the earth, who die unrecorded. Their epitaphs make a fitting introduction to one of the great American writers of the century.

Book Tropics of Haiti

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marlene Daut
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 1781381844
  • Pages : 706 pages

Download or read book Tropics of Haiti written by Marlene Daut and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was an event of international significance. Here is a literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants, observers, survivors, and cultural descendants.

Book Light in August

Download or read book Light in August written by William Faulkner and published by Macmillan _. This book was released on 1991 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Faulkner's most admired and accessible novels, "Light in August" reveals the great American author at the height of his powers. Lena Grove's resolute search for the father of her unborn child begets a rich, poignant, and ultimately hopeful story of perseverance in the face of mortality. It also acquaints us with several of Faulkner's most unforgettable characters, including the Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen, and Joe Christmas, a ragged, itinerant soul obsessed with his mixed-race ancestry. Powerfully entwining these characters' stories, "Light in August" vividly brings to life Faulkner's imaginary South, one of literature's great invented landscapes, in all of its impoverished, violent, unerringly fascinating glory. This edition reproduces the corrected text of "Light in August" as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.

Book Comprehensive Dissertation Index

Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Absalom  Absalom

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Faulkner
  • Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
  • Release : 1966-04-01
  • ISBN : 9780075536574
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Absalom Absalom written by William Faulkner and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 1966-04-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness.

Book Neither Black Nor White Yet Both

Download or read book Neither Black Nor White Yet Both written by Werner Sollors and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making "miscegenation" appear as if it were incest? Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in "Neither Black nor White yet Both," a fully researched investigation of literary works that, in the past, have been read more for a black-white contrast of "either-or" than for an interracial realm of "neither, nor, both, and in-between." From the origins of the term "race" to the cultural sources of the "Tragic Mulatto," and from the calculus of color to the retellings of various plots, Sollors examines what we know about race, analyzing recurrent motifs in scientific and legal works as well as in fiction, drama, and poetry. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book Jealousy and Episode

Download or read book Jealousy and Episode written by William Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William Faulkner  the Yoknapatawpha World and Black Being

Download or read book William Faulkner the Yoknapatawpha World and Black Being written by Erskine Peters and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter brings modern critical tools to his task, as well as a thorough knowledge of the canon of Faulkner criticism dealing with stock images in literature. Among the topics discussed are: the cultural legacy and the influence of light and dark imagery on him; his early characterizations of black existence; the historical context for black existence in the Yoknapatawpha world; the racism in this world which is a scheme of larceny designed to strip the blacks of their soul; the dilemmas of miscegenation and mulatto crises; Diley Gibson's obsession with time; the heroism of Lucas Beauchamp in Intruder in the Dust, and Nancy Mannigoe in Requiem for a Nun; highlighting the comic end of life; and Faulkner's struggle with racial chaos and national destiny. Also includes a glossary of black characters in Faulkner's novels. ISBN 0-8482-5675-1 : $25.00.

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Book The Mississippi Quarterly

Download or read book The Mississippi Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: