William Faulkner s Literary Accomplishments - 1753 Words

William Faulkner was a powerful writer whose highly anthologized works bear the image of the Southern Gothic tradition and the weight of more than half a century of literary analysis and criticism. Despite a vast amount of intense and perhaps belated scrutiny directed at Faulkner s literary accomplishments, the author himself had a vision and scope not to be outdone by his commentators. Between 1929 and 1936, Faulkner published novels with characters ranging from children, thinkers, the insane, the law-breaking, and even those beyond the grave serving as vehicles for themes of time, sex, race, childhood, retribution, family life, Southern Life, and cultural change. In the construction of these stories, Faulkner employed an unmistakeably flowery, intense, and suspenseful narration, often from many different perspectives. He even constructed – in the truer sense of the word – a whole southern American-themed world (which he named â€Å"Jefferson and Yoknapatawpha County †) for his stories and acted through his writing as his world s historian. In this essay I turn to part of that history as told by Faulkner in two of his most famous works and short stories, â€Å"Barn Burning† and â€Å"A Rose For Emily†, with the purpose of realizing the thematic similarities between the two. Conflict between the protagonists convictions and reality itself is the driving force behind character action and its resolution in both â€Å"A Rose For Emily† and â€Å"Barn Burning†. The unwillingness of theShow MoreRelatedSex As A Political Condition1592 Words   |  7 Pagesspirit and inelegant in ethos, equal parts hilarious, offensive, and insightful.† Flores, a professor and published author, has had a successful career. Born and raised in El Paso, TX, he graduated UTEP with a master’s degree in English in the 1970’s. Shortly afterwards, he started working at LCC (Laredo Community College) as an English Professor. He then decided to â€Å"teach a course on Black and Chicano literature that led to a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at Dartmouth CollegeRead MoreModernist Elements in the Hollow Men7051 Words   |  29 Pagesthis complexity, which is at the heart of modernism as a literary movement, that makes of Eliot’s poetry very typically modernist. As Ezra Pound once famously stated, Eliot truly did â€Å"modernize himself†. Although his poetry was subject to important transformations over the course of his career, all of it is characterized by many unifying aspects typical of modernism. It employs characters who fit the modern man as described by Fitzgerald, Faulkner and others of t he poet’s contemporaries. It is markedRead MoreKhasak14018 Words   |  57 PagesMonday, 26 October 2009 Preface This dissertation titled ART AS A RENDEZVOUS OF MYTH AND MIND: A PSYCHOANALYTIC AND MYTHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF O V VIJAYAN’S THE LEGENDS OF KHASAK explores how the judicious selection and use of literary theory can account for the universal appeal of The Legends of Khasak, a belated self translated rendering of a famous regional work in Malayalam, Khasakkinte Ithihasam authored by the eminent writer O V Vijayan, and thus assert its artistic value. Divided into fourRead MoreThe Ballad of the Sad Cafe46714 Words   |  187 PagesThe Ballad of the Sad Cafà © and Other Stories by Carson McCullers Back Cover: When she was only twenty-three her first novel, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, created a literary sensation. She is very special, one of America s superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. A grotesque human triangle in a primitive Southern town. . . A young