My intention, therefore, is not to say that Faulkner's awareness has been confined within the borders of the South, but rather that he has looked at his world as a Southerner and that presumably his outlook is Southern.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

Thompson based his style on William Faulkner's notion that " fiction is often the best fact.

* 1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.

Falkner Island ( also called Faulkner's Island ) is a 4. 5 acre ( 18, 000 m² ) crescent-shaped island located in Long Island Sound 3 miles ( 5 km ) off the coast of Guilford, Connecticut, USA.

Lafayette County is often regarded as the inspiration for Yoknapatawpha County, the fictional setting of many of William Faulkner's stories.

* In William Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy Eula Varner is her modern incarnation.

William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is a prime example of the use of multiple narrators.

The GAR is briefly mentioned in William Faulkner's novel, The Sound and the Fury.

By using various narrators expressing their interpretations, the novel alludes to the historical cultural zeitgeist of Faulkner's South, where the past is always present and constantly in states of revision by the people who tell and retell the story over time ; it thus also explores the process of myth-making and the questioning of truth.

At Faulkner's behest, however, subsequent printings of The Sound and the Fury frequently contain the appendix at the end of the book ; it is sometimes referred to as the fifth part.

The PEN / Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's generosity in donating his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings, " to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers.

Louis Grenier is a fictional character in William Faulkner's novels and stories.

In William Faulkner's 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom !, the ill-bred Thomas Sutpen is compared to a man who taught himself the schottische: Sutpen learned his manners the same way — in private — and executes them awkwardly.

" It is Faulkner's fifth novel and consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th century literature.

As is the case in much of Faulkner's work, the story is set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, which Faulkner referred to as " my apocryphal county ," a fictional rendition of the writer's home of Lafayette County in that same state.

The novel has also directly influenced a number of other critically acclaimed books, including British author Graham Swift's 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders and Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting Mother's Body: A Novel, which is a reimagining of Faulkner's novel from an African American point of view.

* 1, 288 words-The Guinness Book of World Records has an entry for what it claims is the longest sentence in English, from William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom !.

Thomas Sutpen is the focal character of William Faulkner's 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom!

It has also been suggested that the iconic image of the Warminster UFO, Faulkner's photo of 1965, was a hoax, although Faulkner maintains that the photograph is genuine.

The final scene of William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary is set in the gardens.

The novel's appreciation has in large part been due to the technique of its construction, and Faulkner's ability to recreate the thought patterns of the human mind.

Faulkner's total works today, and in fact those of his works which existed in 1946 when Mr. Cowley made his comment, or in 1939, when Mr. O'Donnell wrote his essay, reveal no such simple attitude toward the South.

It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.

Spenser seems to agree with William Faulkner's assessment of scotch — " that brown liquor which not women, not boys and children, but only hunters drank.

The use of Quentin Compson as the primary perspective ( if not exactly the focus ) of the novel makes it something of a companion piece to Faulkner's earlier work The Sound and the Fury, which tells the story of the Compson Family, with Quentin as one of the main characters.

In 1931, however, when Faulkner's sixth novel, Sanctuary, was published — a sensationalist story which Faulkner later claimed was written only for money — The Sound and the Fury also became commercially successful, and Faulkner began to receive critical attention.

Image: TheFaulknerPortable. jpg | William Faulkner's Underwood Universal Portable in his office at Rowan Oak, which is now maintained by the University of Mississippi in Oxford as a museum.

He is referenced extensively in Faulkner's popular classic ' The Bear " as the original owner of the land that was sold to Carothers McCaslin, the first white landowner of the woods in which the story takes place.

This meaning of the term " apothecary " has not passed into archaic oblivion, as in William Faulkner's still widely read 1930 story " A Rose for Emily " the main character, Miss Emily Grierson, goes to an " apothecary " and buys arsenic, ostensibly to kill a rat ( which turns out later to have been her " Yankee " boyfriend who had apparently become bent on jilting her and casting her aside ).

" That Evening Sun " is a short story by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1931 on the collection These 13, which included Faulkner's most anthologized story, " A Rose for Emily ".

A copy of the 1939 edition of Novel & Short Story Writer's Market | Writer's Market, published by Writer's Digest Books rests next to William Faulkner | William Faulkner's Underwood Typewriter Company | Underwood Universal Portable typewriter in his office at his home, Rowan Oak, which is now maintained by the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi | Oxford as a museum.

The letter was retitled " Fraud Detected: or, The Hibernian Patriot " by Faulkner's Dublin Journal, which published the piece in 1725.

The concept of an " induction haircut " has also been the focus of litigation, such as in the case of The Citadel where attorneys for the first female cadet, Shannon Faulkner, argued that the " knob haircut " ( referring to the college's freshman class's traditional nickname ) would " implement rules which altogether denigrate Ms. Faulkner's identity as a woman.

They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.

The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

Faulkner's low-class characters had but few counterparts in earlier Southern novels dealing with plantation life.

Brown himself received six Academy Award nominations and in 1949 won the British Academy Award for the film version of William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust.

Examples of such usage are William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and William Wordsworth's The Idiot Boy.

D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was privately published in 1928, while another important landmark for the history of the modern novel came with the publication of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury in 1929.

The party ultimately nominated the former civil rights campaigner Austin Currie, a respected new TD and former minister in Brian Faulkner's power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland from 1973 – 74.

William Faulkner's character " Narcissa " in Sanctuary, sister of Horace Benbow, was also named after Narcissus.

Chatham Publishing, 1 & 2 Faulkner's Alley, Cowcross St. London, Great Britain, 1996.

* In William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury, Jason Compson hits on other perceptions of Wall Street: after finding some of his stocks are doing poorly, he blames " the Jews.

In the field of American fiction, William Faulkner's 1930 novel As I Lay Dying can be read as an interaction with the cubist mode.

After his death, Burton was replaced by Edward Fox, and the character changed to Faulkner's younger brother.

The Origins of Faulkner's art.