Record Nr.

UNINA9910811483103321

Autore

Blotner Joseph <1923->

Titolo

Faulkner : a biography / / Joseph Blotner

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2005

ISBN

1-282-96088-1

9786612960888

1-61703-110-0

1-4294-6051-2

Edizione

[One-volume ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (795 p.)

Disciplina

813/.52

Soggetti

Novelists, American - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York : Random House, 1974.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [719]-747) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Contents; 1. September 1897-September 1902; 2. September 1902-August 1905; 3. September 1905-September 1906; 4. September 1906-Spring 1911; 5. Autumn 1911-Summer 1914; 6. Summer 1914-March 1918; 7. April-December 1918; 8. December 1918-September 1919; 9. September 1919-June 1920; 10. June-November 1920; 11. Autumn 1920-Autumn 1921; 12. Autumn 1921; 13. December 1921-November 1924; 14. Autumn 1924-January 1925; 15. January-April 1925; 16. April-June 1925; 17. June-July 1925; 18. July-October 1925; 19. October-December 1925; 20. December 1925-February 1926; 21. February-June 1926

22. June-October 192623. October 1926-June 1927; 24. June 1927-Winter 1928; 25. Winter-September 1928; 26. September-December 1928; 27. December 1928-June 1929; 28. June 1929-March 1930; 29. April 1930-January 1931; 30. January-October 1931; 31. October-December 1931; 32. December 1931-May 1932; 33. May-October 1932; 34. October 1932-August 1933; 35. September 1933-February 1934; 36. February-October 1934; 37. September 1934-March 1935; 38. March-November 1935; 39. November 1935-January 1936; 40. January-October 1936; 41. October 1936-August 1937; 42. August 1937-February 1938

43. March-December 193844. January 1939-March 1940; 45. March 1940-January 1941; 46. January 1941-January 1942; 47. January-July 1942; 48. July 1942-August 1943; 49. August 1943-December 1944; 50. December 1944-September 1945; 51. September 1945-April 1947; 52. April 1947-February 1948; 53. February-December 1948; 54. December 1948-January 1950; 55. January-November 1950; 56. November-December 1950; 57. January-September 1951; 58. September 1951-May 1952; 59. May 1952-January 1953; 60. January-November 1953; 61. December 1953-April 1954; 62. May 1954-July 1955; 63. July-October 1955

64. October 1955-February 195765. February-May 1957; 66. June 1957-November 1958; 67. November 1958-June 1959; 68. June 1959-October 1960; 69. October 1960-October 1961; 70. October 1961-May 1962; 71. May-July 1962; Notes; Chronology; Genealogy; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

William Faulkner (1897-1962) remains the pre- eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively obsessed with problems of race, identity, power, politics, and family dynamics, he wrote novels, stories, and lectures that continue to shape our understanding of the region's promises and problems. His experiments and inventions in form and style have influenced generations of writers. Originally published in 1974 as a two-volume edition and extensively updated and condensed in a 1991 reissue, Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography remains the qu