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Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1987

Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1987

Fowler, Doreen
Abadie, Ann J.

Paperback

Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha

Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0878053735
ISBN13: 9780878053735
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Jul 1 1989
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1944, William Faulkner wrote to Malcolm Cowley, I'm telling the same story over and over which is myself and the world. That's all a writer ever does, he tells his own biography in a thousand different terms.

With these words, Faulkner suggests that what changes in the course of his prolific novel-writing career is not so much the content but the style, the thousand different terms of his fiction. The essays in Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction, first presented at the 1987 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi, focus on Faulkner's narrative inventiveness, on how Faulkner, like his character Benjy in The Sound and the Fury, relentlessly kept trying to say.

The contributors, authorities on Faulkner's narrative, offer a wide variety of critical approaches to Faulkner's fiction-writing process. Cleanth Brooks, for example, applies the strategies of New Criticism to Faulkner's rendering of the heroic and pastoral modes; Judith L. S

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