Read Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner

Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner

Philip Weinstein

4.9/5 (27998 ratings)

Description:William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career, he remained haunted by his inability to master a series of personal and professional challenges: his less-than-heroic military career; the loss of his brother in an airplane crash; a disappointing stint as a Hollywood screenwriter; and a destructive bout with alcoholism. In this imaginative biography, Philip Weinstein--a leading authority on the great novelist--targets Faulkner's embattled sense of self as central to both his life and his work. Weinstein shows how Faulkner's troubled interactions with time, place, and history--with antebellum practices and racial division--take on their fullest meanings in his fiction. Exploring the resonance of his own unpreparedness, Faulkner invented a singular language that captured human consciousness under stress as never before. Becoming Faulkner joins Faulkner's life and art in a bold new way, giving readers a full vantage from which to better understand this twentieth-century literary genius. Weinstein shows how Faulkner's troubled interactions with time, place, and history--with antebellum practices and southern heritage--form a pattern that played out over the course of his entire life. At the same time, these incidents take on their fullest meanings in his fiction. It was in meditating on his failures, his own unreadiness, Weinstein argues, that Faulkner came up with his singular language, one that captured human consciousness under stress as never before. His fruitless striving catapulted American literature to a new level of sophistication. Narrating the events that comprised Faulkner's life, biographers have long struggled to depict his personal complexity, the paradoxes that shaped his decisions and dogged his relationships. But without a consideration of the writing as well, the troubles in the life fail to reveal their deeper resonance. By skillfully analyzing the work while tracing the events, Weinstein achieves a full portrait, revealing struggles that animate his life and shadows that complicate his work. Becoming Faulkner thus conjoins Faulkner's life and art in a bold new way, giving readers a full vantage from which to better understand this twentieth-century literary genius.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner. To get started finding Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 235

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 2009

ISBN: 0195341538

Description: William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career, he remained haunted by his inability to master a series of personal and professional challenges: his less-than-heroic military career; the loss of his brother in an airplane crash; a disappointing stint as a Hollywood screenwriter; and a destructive bout with alcoholism. In this imaginative biography, Philip Weinstein--a leading authority on the great novelist--targets Faulkner's embattled sense of self as central to both his life and his work. Weinstein shows how Faulkner's troubled interactions with time, place, and history--with antebellum practices and racial division--take on their fullest meanings in his fiction. Exploring the resonance of his own unpreparedness, Faulkner invented a singular language that captured human consciousness under stress as never before. Becoming Faulkner joins Faulkner's life and art in a bold new way, giving readers a full vantage from which to better understand this twentieth-century literary genius. Weinstein shows how Faulkner's troubled interactions with time, place, and history--with antebellum practices and southern heritage--form a pattern that played out over the course of his entire life. At the same time, these incidents take on their fullest meanings in his fiction. It was in meditating on his failures, his own unreadiness, Weinstein argues, that Faulkner came up with his singular language, one that captured human consciousness under stress as never before. His fruitless striving catapulted American literature to a new level of sophistication. Narrating the events that comprised Faulkner's life, biographers have long struggled to depict his personal complexity, the paradoxes that shaped his decisions and dogged his relationships. But without a consideration of the writing as well, the troubles in the life fail to reveal their deeper resonance. By skillfully analyzing the work while tracing the events, Weinstein achieves a full portrait, revealing struggles that animate his life and shadows that complicate his work. Becoming Faulkner thus conjoins Faulkner's life and art in a bold new way, giving readers a full vantage from which to better understand this twentieth-century literary genius.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner. To get started finding Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner

Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner

More Books

Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage

Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage

The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

What Else But Love?

What Else But Love?

Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns

Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns

What Else But Love?: Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison by Philip M Weinstein (1997-01-10)

What Else But Love?: Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison by Philip M Weinstein (1997-01-10)

Becoming Faulkner by Weinstein, Philip. (Oxford University Press, USA,2012) [Paperback]

Becoming Faulkner by Weinstein, Philip. (Oxford University Press, USA,2012) [Paperback]

Lumbar spondylosis: Diagnosis, management, and surgical treatment

Lumbar spondylosis: Diagnosis, management, and surgical treatment

Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction

Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction

Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Philip M. Weinstein (2008-08-21)

Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Philip M. Weinstein (2008-08-21)