There is no necessity, I suppose, to assert that Mr. Faulkner is Southern.

One of the early humorists already mentioned, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, can be used to illustrate another point where Faulkner touches authentic Southern materials and also earlier literary treatment of those materials.

William Faulkner who wrote novels and short stories in the Southern Gothic genre.

Among its most respected practitioners was Flannery O ' Connor ( b. March 25, 1925 in Georgia – d. August 3, 1964 in Georgia ), who renewed the fascination of such giants as Faulkner and Twain with the American south, developing a distinctive Southern gothic esthetic wherein characters acted at one level as people and at another as symbols.

He writes in the Southern Gothic aesthetic in his distinctly Faulknerian 1965 debut, The Orchard Keeper, and Suttree ( 1979 ); in the Epic Western tradition, with grotesquely drawn characters and symbolic narrative turns reminiscent of Melville, in Blood Meridian ( 1985 ), which Harold Bloom styled " the greatest single book since Faulkner ’ s As I Lay Dying ," calling the character of Judge Holden " short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature "; in a much more pastoral tone in his celebrated Border Trilogy ( 1992 – 98 ) of bildungsromans, including All the Pretty Horses ( 1992 ), winner of the National Book Award ; and in the post-apocalyptic genre in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road ( 2007 ).

is a Southern Gothic novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936.

Three Modes of Modern Southern Fiction: Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe.

His writing captures a uniquely Southern social order, outlook, and voice and has been compared to the work of Mark Twain and William Faulkner.

It can also be considered among the first Southern works in a tradition that would culminate with the modern masterpieces of Faulkner, Flannery O ' Connor, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, and Tennessee Williams.

Brooks was also the preeminent critic of Southern literature, writing classic texts on William Faulkner, and co-founder of the influential journal, The Southern Review ( Leitch 2001 ) with Robert Penn Warren.

His tenure at Yale was marked by ongoing research into Southern literature, which resulted in the publication of Brooks ’ studies of William Faulkner ’ s Yoknapatawpha County ( 1963, 1978 ) ( Leitch 2001 ).

Along with New Criticism, Brooks ’ studies of Faulkner, Southern literature, and T. S. Eliot ’ s The Waste Land ( appearing in Modern Poetry and the Tradition ) remain classic texts.

During 1954 and 1955 Southern met two of his literary heroes, William Faulkner and author of The Man With The Golden Arm, Nelson Algren.

Like the Southern Gothic of American writers such as William Faulkner, Flannery O ' Connor and Eudora Welty, Southern Ontario Gothic analyzes and critiques social conditions such as race, gender, religion and politics, but in a Southern Ontario context.

Faulkner University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate, baccalaureate, master ’ s and juris doctor degrees.

In the 1920s and 1930s, a renaissance in Southern literature began with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Caroline Gordon, Allen Tate, Thomas Wolfe, Robert Penn Warren, and Tennessee Williams, among others.

The band have mentioned their use of primarily Southern ideas and memes, and cite William Faulkner as an influence.

Faulkner obtained his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Southern Methodist University and his Ph. D. in Chemistry from UT Austin.

The Southern Renaissance ( also known as Southern Renascence ) was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, and Robert Penn Warren, among others.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

The rumors may have been sustained by a statement Harding allegedly made to newspaperman James W. Faulkner on the subject, which he perhaps meant to be dismissive: " How do I know, Jim?

The last line is, perhaps, the most meaningful ; Faulkner said in his speech upon being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature that people must write about things that come from the heart, " universal truths.

:" Mrs. McCullers and perhaps Mr. Faulkner are the only writers since the death of D. H. Lawrence with an original poetic sensibility.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

It is more difficult with Faulkner than with most authors to say what is the extent and what is the source of his knowledge.

Examples: William Faulkner in A Rose for Emily ( Faulkner was an avid experimenter in using unusual points of view-see his Spotted Horses, told in third person plural ); Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in Cheaper By the Dozen ; Frederik Pohl in Man Plus ; and more recently, Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides and Joshua Ferris in Then We Came to the End.

One of the city's more colorful residents was the boxer Kid Mexico ( real name, Tod Faulkner ) who was the state's bantamweight champion in 1914 ( at age 14 — he had lied about his age ) and the state's welterweight champion in 1925.

Just as a person does not know the history of a new acquaintance, Faulkner gives more information about characters as the novel progresses.

He is one of only three novelists ( the others being William Faulkner and John Updike ) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

The novel War Trash ( 2004 ), set during the Korean War, won a second PEN / Faulkner Award for Jin, thus ranking him with Philip Roth, John Edgar Wideman and E. L. Doctorow who are the only other authors to have won the prize more than once.

They began to employ much more electronics in their music, collaborating with Raynard Faulkner and Adam Williams, recording many tracks in the studio and playing live using various line-up permutations.

According to The Folio Society, " We can never know if this is exactly what Faulkner would have envisaged, but the result justifies his belief that coloured inks would allow readers to follow the strands of the novel more easily, without compromising the ‘ thought-transference ’ for which he argued so passionately.

In 1999, the Huntington acquired the collection of materials relating to Pre-Raphaelite artist and designer William Morris amassed by Sanford and Helen Berger, comprising stained glass, wallpaper, textiles, embroidery, drawings, ceramics, more than 2, 000 books, original woodblock prints, and the complete archives of Morris's decorative arts firm Morris & Co. and its predecessor Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.

For example, Faulkner has characters such as Darl speak with far more intellectual diction than he realistically possesses in his interior monologue.

Writings by Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller and John Steinbeck were included, and many thought that Frank's photos served more to illustrate the writing rather than the converse.

In a 2005 speech prominent Left Faction member, John Faulkner describe the factional system in Australian Labor as being less about ideology and more about patronage.

I prefer Mrs. McCullers to Mr. Faulkner because she writes more clearly ; I prefer her to D. H. Lawrence because she has no message.

Colour Sergeant Brian Faulkner, seeing that more than 20 wounded Paras on the western slopes of the mountain were about to fall into the hands of one of the sections of Castañeda's platoon, deployed anyone fit enough to defend the British Regimental Aid Post.

Faulkner grew up in Dunleer in South Louth, where his father was a strong supporter of Fine Gael, while his mother supported the more Republican Fianna Fáil party.

An expert in 19-century American literature, Brodhead has written or edited more than a dozen books on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles W. Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Richard Wright and Eudora Welty, among others.

I thought why should these crazy people Faulkner writes about seem more important than my mother or my father or the dude down the street.

Jennifer Burns expressed a similar view, stating that the play's attempts to portray individualism had " dubious results ... Rand intended Bjorn Faulkner to embody heroic individualism, but in the play he comes off as little more than an unscrupulous businessman with a taste for rough sex.

Faulkner previously won this award for his book A Fable, making him one of only three authors to be awarded it more than once.

Many novelists such as William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald took jobs writing screenplays in Hollywood since they made more money.

Appearing in more than 200 episodes of TV, Sibbett also guest starred on 21 Jump Street and later, most notably as Morgan Faulkner on The Nanny.