William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance.(Book Review)

The Modern Language Review | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance. By JAMES G. WATSON. (Literary Modernism Series) Austin: University of Texas Press. 2000. xvi+ 255 pp. 26.95 [pounds sterling].

Two photographs frame this study and define its field of vision. Both are of William Faulkner in uniform: the first, from 1918, of Royal Flying Cadet Faulkner, looking, as James Watson remarks, remarkably like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, but with none of Chaplin's jaunty irony, and the second, from the late 1950s, of 'Tally-ho, William Faulkner', posed in his Farmington Hunt Club pink, a ...

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