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William Faulkner is widely considered the greatest writer of Southern literature, and one of the most esteemed writers of American literature.. William Faulkner (1897—1962) was an American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a stand-in for his hometown of Oxford in Lafayette County ...
23 de may. de 2024 · William Faulkner - Nobel Prize, Southern Gothic, Novels: The novel The Wild Palms (1939) was again technically adventurous, with two distinct yet thematically counterpointed narratives alternating, chapter by chapter, throughout. But Faulkner was beginning to return to the Yoknapatawpha County material he had first imagined in the 1920s and subsequently exploited in short-story form.
22 de dic. de 2021 · William Cuthbert Falkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi, to Murry Cuthbert Falkner, a railroad worker, and Maud Butler, a housewife. William was raised in Oxford, Mississippi, and, in 1915, left high school to work as a bookkeeper. Longing for adventure, he joined the Canadian Royal Air Force in 1918 by changing the ...
One of the 20th century’s greatest novelists, William Cuthbert Falkner, as his name was originally spelled, never graduated from high school. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons, and moved with his family to Oxford, Mississippi, at the age of five. As a young man, influenced by the work of English poets A.E. Housman and Algernon Charles Swinburne, he began writing ...
2 de jun. de 2018 · When William Faulkner (1897-1962) accepted the Nobel Prize in December, 1950, he made a speech that has become a justly famous statement of his perception of the modern world and of his particular place in it. In the address, Faulkner speaks of the modern tragedy of the spirit, the threat of instant physical annihilation, which seems…
20 de jun. de 2024 · A William Faulkner Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Digests of characters, works, major figures real and imagined, and intellectual movements important to Faulkner's career; highly reliable and with excellent guides to further reading.
William Cuthbert Faulkner, născut Falkner ( 25 septembrie 1897 – 6 iulie 1962) a fost un prozator american, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în anul 1949, unul dintre scriitorii reprezentativi ai literaturii americane din secolul XX. Modernismul lui Faulkner se înscrie în spiritul de influență al lui James Joyce, ca model ...
