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, 1990.
William Faulkner
Standard Name: Faulkner, William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. Innes, Lyn. “Toni Morrison Obituary”. theguardian.com, 6 Aug. 2019. |
| 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. . .... |
| 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 OBrien”. Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, edited by George Plimpton and George Plimpton, Viking, 1989, pp. 337-59. 347 |
| 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... |
| 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
. qtd. in Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ . 4 June 2015 |
| 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., 2009. 308 |
| 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. Ebersole, Lucinda, and Richard Peabody. “Preface”. Coming to Terms: A Literary Response to Abortion, edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody, The New Press, 1994, p. xiii - xiv. xiii-xiv |
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.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
7 October 2008
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. 2001, 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.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
4 June 2008
10 December 1950: Bertrand Russell from Great Britain was awarded...
Writing climate item
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.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
2 February 2010
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