Ebersole, Lucinda, and Richard Peabody. “Preface”. Coming to Terms: A Literary Response to Abortion, edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody, The New Press, p. xiii - xiv.
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William Faulkner
Standard Name: Faulkner, William
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Zoë Fairbairns | The preface says that the volume does not pretend to offer answers or solutions. Nor does it attempt to promote a particular political position. |
| Textual Features | Flannery O'Connor | Brad Gooch
says that of all her work this is most marked by the impress of William Faulkner
(whose French publisher for Gallimard
was at this date working on O'Connor's first novel). Gooch, Brad. Flannery. Little, Brown and Co. 308 |
| Literary responses | Carson McCullers | Among original reviewers, Richard Wright
judged that McCullers had captured the bleak landscape of the American consciousness below the Mason-Dixon line in a manner more natural and authentic than that of Faulkner
. Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ . 4 June 2015 |
| Literary responses | Ethel Wilson | Feminist responses to EW
's work emerged in the 1970s. Maggie Lloyd Vardoe's decision to leave a loveless marriage and independently pursue a more fulfilling one was lauded as radical for its time. In the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edna O'Brien | Among American writers, female and male, O'Brien particularly admires William Faulkner
, Carson McCullers
, Flannery O'Connor
, and Eudora Welty
. Guppy, Shusha et al. “Edna O’Brien”. Women Writers at Work: The <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="j">Paris Review</span> Interviews, edited by George Plimpton and George Plimpton, Viking, pp. 337-59. 347 |
| Friends, Associates | Eudora Welty | EW
's friendship with her fellow Mississippian William Faulkner
began from an impromptu postcard he sent her from Hollywood in 1943: Dear Welty: You are doing fine. You are doing all right. . .... |
| Education | Toni Morrison | Chloe Wofford (later TM
) followed her BA with an MA in English Literature from Cornell University
, with a thesis on suicide in Virginia Woolf
and William Faulkner
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Innes, Lyn. “Toni Morrison Obituary”. theguardian.com. |
Timeline
31 January 1929: William Faulkner issued Sartoris, the first...
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31 January 1929
William Faulkner
issued Sartoris, the first of the novels which he set in the Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional area of Mississippi which became his trademark.
26 October 1936: William Faulkner published Absalom! Absalom!,...
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26 October 1936
William Faulkner
published Absalom! Absalom!, the sixth of his series of novels set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha county, Mississippi, which had begun with Sartoris in 1929.
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
26 October 2012
4 June 1940: The twenty-three-year-old Carson McCullers...
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4 June 1940
The twenty-three-year-old Carson McCullers
won a chorus of praise with her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, centred on a young white girl growing up in the racist American south.
10 December 1950: Bertrand Russell from Great Britain was awarded...
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10 December 1950
Bertrand Russell
from Great Britain was awarded this year's Nobel
Prize in Literature in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.
The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum.
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