The book traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue, Lewis exposes its continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.

Faulkner managed to encompass an enormous range of humanity in Yoknapatawpha County, a Mississippian region of his own invention.

William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country.

Faulkner and Religion: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1989.

Faulkner and Religion: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1989.

Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional county created by the American author William Faulkner, based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi and its county seat of Oxford, Mississippi.

Faulkner would often refer to Yoknapatawpha County as " my apocryphal county.

Faulkner added a map of Yoknapatawpha County at the end of Absalom, Absalom!

Sartoris is the first of Faulkner ’ s tales set in Yoknapatawpha County, and introduces many of the characters that appear in his later fiction.

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.

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 ).

William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country

William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond

* Mount Vernon Township, Faulkner County, Arkansas

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Faulkner County is a county in the U. S. state of Arkansas.

Faulkner County is included in the Little Rock – North Little Rock – Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Faulkner County was formed from parts of Conway and Pulaski counties on April 12, 1873, and is named after Colonel Sanford C. ' Sandy ' Faulkner who was the composer of the popular fiddle tune " The Arkansas Traveller ".

Age pyramid Faulkner County

Townships in Faulkner County, Arkansas as of 2010

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Faulkner County, Arkansas

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Due to its partial location in Faulkner County, it is part of the Little Rock – North Little Rock – Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Category: Populated places in Faulkner County, Arkansas

Conway is the county seat of Faulkner County, Arkansas, United States.

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Important as was Mr. O'Donnell's essay, his thesis is so restricting as to deny Faulkner the stature which he obviously has.

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?

In 1861 Morris and some friends founded a company, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., which, as supervised by the partners, designed and made decorative objects for homes, including wallpaper, textiles, furniture and stained glass.

Montgomery also is home to several private colleges: Faulkner University, which has an enrollment of 3, 500, is a Church of Christ-affiliated school ; Huntingdon College, which has a current student population of 1, 000 and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church ; Virginia College and Amridge University.

" Childe's Marxism was further critiqued by later Marxist archaeologist Neil Faulkner, who argued that although Childe " was a deeply committed socialist heavily influenced by Marxism ", he did not appear to accept the existence of class struggle as an instrument of social change, something which was a core tenet of Marxist thought.

The Borough of North Plainfield is governed under the Faulkner Act ( Mayor-Council ) system of municipal government, which provides for a strong-mayor type of government.

A joint commission of residents of both municipalities had recommended that the two communities should be consolidated to form what would be called the Township of Sussex-Wantage, which would operate under the Faulkner Act ( Council-Manager ) form of government with a mayor and a six-member township council, and that voters in both municipalities should approve a referendum to be held on November 3, 2009.

Since then, Morrison has experimented with lyric fantasy, as in her two best-known later works, Song of Solomon ( 1977 ) and Beloved ( 1987 ), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ; along these lines, critic Harold Bloom has drawn favorable comparisons to Virginia Woolf, and the Nobel committee to " Faulkner and to the Latin American tradition magical realism.

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 ).

Discussing Absalom, Absalom !, Faulkner stated that the curse under which the South labors is slavery, and Thomas Sutpen's personal curse, or flaw, was his belief that he was too strong to need to be a part of the human family.

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.

The family falls victim to those vices which Faulkner believed were responsible for the problems in the reconstructed South: racism, avarice, selfishness, and the psychological inability of individuals to become determinants.

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.

A master ad libber, Allen often tangled with his network's executives ( and often barbed them on the air over the battles ), while developing routines the style and substance of which influenced contemporaries and futures among comic talents, including Groucho Marx, Stan Freberg, Henry Morgan and Johnny Carson, but his fans also included President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and novelists William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Herman Wouk ( who began his career writing for Allen ).

Colonel Sanford C. ' Sandy ' Faulkner ( 1806 – 1874 ) was an American teller of tall tales, fiddle player, and composer of the popular fiddle tune " The Arkansas Traveler ", which was the State song of Arkansas from 1949 – 1963.

In a letter to his publisher, Faulkner said " At last and certainly, I have written THE book, of which those other things were but foals.

He had filled out a required form, which gave his name as J. J. Faulkner.

Faulkner pointed out that Unions did not control the ALP but rather the factions which control the party also control the Unions.

It was Anderson's influence which saw both Faulkner and Hemingway first published.

James Faulkner owned the Belfast Collar Company which traded under the name Faulat.