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William Faulkner
William Faulkner 1897-1962, American novelist, b. New Albany, Miss., one of the great American writers of the 20th cent. Born into an old Southern family named Falkner, he changed the spelling of his last name to Faulkner when he published his first book, a collection of poems entitled The Marble... Read more |
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Fanny Fern (American writer)
Fern, Fanny, pseudonym of Sara P. Willis.... Read more |
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stream of consciousness
stream of consciousness in literature, technique that records the multifarious thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence. The writer attempts by the stream of consciousness to reflect all the forces, external and internal, influencing the... Read more |
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Lost generation
LOST GENERATION LOST GENERATION refers to a group of early-twentieth-century American writers, notably Hart Crane, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thornton Wilder, and Thomas Wolfe. The writings of these authors were shaped by World War I... Read more |
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Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich Once named one of People magazine's most beautiful people, Louise Erdrich (born 1954) is a Native American writer with a wide popular appeal. She is no literary lightweight, however, having drawn comparisons to such noted American authors as William Faulkner. Louise Erdrich... Read more |
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Victoria Cross (British writer)
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Tobias Wolff
Wolff, Tobias (1945–), younger brother of Geoffrey, lived with his mother, who had “gone to deep cover” in Connecticut, Florida, Utah, and Washington, with frequent interruptions of Tobias's formal education. After Army service in Vietnam, Wolff took a degree at Oxford, and... Read more |
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William Boyd (American actor)
Hopalong Cassidy a limping fictional cowboy, created by the writer Clarence E. Mulford, who wearing black clothes and riding a white horse was played in a series of films (and later a television series) by the American actor William Boyd (1898–1972).... Read more |
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Buck Henry
HENRY, Buck Writer and Actor. Nationality:American. Born:Buck Henry Zuckerman in New York City, 9 December 1930; son of the actress Ruth Taylor. Education:Attended Harvard Military Academy; Choate School; Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire,... Read more |
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Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin , 1915-98, American critic, b. New York City, grad. College of the City of New York (B.S., 1935) and Columbia (M.A., 1938). Kazin was one of the outstanding literary critics of his time. His first book, the influential and pioneering On Native Grounds (1942), is a critical study of... Read more |
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American literature
American literature English...leading figures in the American Revolution, such...Early 19th-century writers, such as Washington...Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams...new poetry, while William Faulkner is regarded as ... |
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Mississippi River
...a microcosm of American history. Revolutionary...Engineers; and American life was forever...displaced African Americans to northern cities...water.Artists and writers like George Caleb...Hamlin Garland, William Faulkner, and ... |
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Faulkner and Southern History.(southern American writer William Faulkner)
...young German writer whose first novel...earlier, visited William Faulkner in Charlottesville...Many German writers before the war...as a young writer, how did one...rediscovered, American writers, among them ... |
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William Faulkner: American Writer.
WILLIAM FAULKNER: AMERICAN WRITER Any biographer of William Faulkner faces a huge challenge. Not only did Faulkner transmute his native Mississippi into a fabulous fictional domain--the Yoknapatawpha County of ... |
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William Faulkner's Short Fiction: An International Symposium.(Review)
William Faulkner's Short Fiction...the mind," a writer's extended...greatest nature-writers of the present...all in books on American nature writing...that the work of William Cuthbert Faulkner...fancied ... |
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Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop and William Faulkner's The...
...interviewed William Faulkner. His firmest...School dropout William Faulkner trained...to become a writer by reading...described the two writers as "the crossing...vertical axes in American ... |
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William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape.(Book review)
William Faulkner and the Southern...seamlessly in southern writer William Faulkner's apocryphal...do professional writers on geographical...Mississippi from which the writer drew such inspiration...a region of ... |
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William Faulkner reprised: isolation in Toni Morrison's Song of...
...modernist giant William Faulkner risks treating...way as a reader, William Faulkner had an...that she feels Faulkner "doomed to a tragic...suggests that African American writers often revise ... |
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Prophet Faulkner: ignored for much of his own time and then embalmed in...
...Mosquitoes (1927), William Faulkner wrote, "`I...years later, William Styron, riding...difference in what the writer can and cannot...that so arouses writers, chafes and...Anderson, a writer of poetry, essays...encouraged ... |
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Combatting anti-Americanism during the Cold War: Faulkner, the State...
IN 1950, WHEN FAULKNER WAS AWARDED THE...presence testified to American achievements in...sentiment (see Oakley "William Faulkner"). This...on Latin American writers, the Southerner...Joseph Blotner's "William ... |
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William Faulkner and Southern History.
...South offer lip-service to William Faulkner's greatness, his influence on them...creatively to bear on Faulkner's work or Faulkner criticism. Frederick Karl's William Faulkner: American ... |
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The Private William Faulkner
WILLIAM FAULKNER The Man and the Artist...out to be unsuitable. William Faulkner was the great American novelist of the century...matters-Faulkner the writer. It is rather difficult...substantial shortcoming, ... |
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