scholarly journals A demanding form: William Faulkner and the short story

2015 ◽  
pp. 142-146
Author(s):  
Eoin O'Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Human Heart ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Literary Canon

Few authors have had such an impact on the American literary canon as the Southern novelist William Faulkner. His fiction of four decades not only constitutes an extensive exploration of Southern people and their environment, but represents a study of universal human tragedies and moral struggles. The zenith of Faulkner’s career was his receipt, in 1949, of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Faulkner outlined, in his acceptance address, his belief in the endurance of man and the potential of writing to help him prevail. In particular, he advocated a return to what he perceived to be the principal theme of writing: the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself. His receipt of the award was naturally a turning point in his lengthy career. Its prestige and promise of financial security helped to ameliorate his financial struggles and to cement his position as an American master of letters. Some ...

A. E. Housman and Faulkner's Nobel Prize Speech: a Note

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-248
Author(s):  
James B. Meriwether
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Human Heart

The address which William Faulkner delivered in Stockholm on 10 December 1950, upon being awarded the Nobel Prize, is a challenge to his fellow writers to recall that ‘the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself’ are the true subject of art. The artist who forgets this, Faulkner warned, ‘writes not of love but of lust’ if he does not dedicate himself to ‘the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths’, then his art is ‘ephemeral and doomed’; and the artist himself ‘labors under a curse’.

scholarly journals An Analysis on Rose in A Rose for Emily

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Yan HUANG
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
The Rose

A Rose for Emily is the first published short story of William Faulkner, which talks about a tragic life of an elderly Southern woman Emily Grierson. In the whole story, the none rose does not appear, the only use of the word is an adjective for two times. The “Rose” in the title “A Rose for Emily” attracted a lot of attention. This paper will analyze the rose on two main aspects: the symbolic meaning of rose and who give rose to Emily.

scholarly journals In the Traces of Modernism: William Faulkner in Swedish Criticism 1932–1950

Humanities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Mats Jansson
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
Basic Parameters ◽  
Modernist Novel ◽  
Horizon Of Expectations

This article focusses the reception of William Faulkner in Sweden from the first introduction in 1932 until the Nobel Prize announcement in 1950. Through reviews, introductory articles, book chapters, forewords, and translations, the critical evaluation of Faulkner’s particular brand of modernism is traced and analysed. The analysis takes theoretical support from Hans Robert Jauss’ notion of ‘horizon of expectations’, Gérard Genette’s concept of ‘paratext’, and E.D. Hirsh’s distinction between ‘meaning’ and ‘significance’. To pinpoint the biographical and psychologizing tendency in Swedish criticism, Roland Barthes’s notion of ‘biographeme’ is introduced. The analysis furthermore shows that the critical discussion of Faulkner’s modernism could be ordered along an axis where the basic parameters are form and content, aesthetics and ideology, narrator and author, and writer and reader. The problematics adhering to these fundamental aspects are more or less relevant for the modernist novel in general. Thus, it could be argued that the reception of Faulkner in Sweden and Swedish Faulkner criticism epitomize and highlight the fundamental features pertaining to the notion of ‘modernism’, both with regard to its formal and content-based characteristics.

Research on a Sleep Security and Energy-Saving Device

2015 ◽  
Vol 738-739 ◽  
pp. 767-770
Author(s):  
Rong Hua Li ◽  
Jian Bo Fu ◽  
Qing Ling Fan ◽  
Zhen Yu Hou
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Human Heart ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
The Body ◽  
Modern Family

The proposed sleep security and energy-saving device with heart rate as the turning point of body, provides a solution for some of the problems existing in the modern family life. Such as electrical appliances may waste too much electricity, or bring safe hidden trouble. The device is originated from the medical phenomenon which is when the body is sleeping. Human heart rate will slow down to a certain extent than normal. If the heart rate has difference with the normal levels in a period of time, the device will make a judgment that disconnects the electrical appliances.

The absence of the rose: Emily, Faulckner and the reader

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Maria de Fátima Marçal dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The Rose

The objective of this paper is to analyze some aspects of William Faulkner's short story "A rose for Emily" using as basic theoretical reference some of the concepts developed by C. S. Peirce in his theory of signs and also some of the ideas found in the psychoanalytical work of J. Lacan. As theoretical instruments of analysis they will be used with the specific purpose of elucidating the process of reading and interpreting the literary text. O objetivo deste trabalho consiste em analisar alguns aspectos do conto A rose for Emily de William Faulkner usando como referência teórica básica alguns dos conceitos desenvolvidos por C. S. Peirce em sua teoria dos signos, assim como algumas das idéias encontradas no trabalho psicanalítico de J. Lacan. Enquanto instrumentos teóricos de análise tais conceitos serão utilizados com o propósito especifico de elucidar aspectos do processo de leitura e interpretação do texto literário.

The Maturation of a New Literary Genre

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabry Hafex
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Modern School ◽  
History Of ◽  
Major Figure ◽  
Formative Years

The arrival of Lashin1on the Egyptian literary scene in the 1920s marked a turning point in the history of the short story: he was an outstandingly vigorous pioneer who developed the genre and brought its formative years to a close. His writings represent the culmination, in both form and content, of the work of previous writers and of his contemporaries. He was also the major figure of a versatile literary group, Jama⊂at al-Madrasa al Haditha (the Modern School), which played a decisive role in developing the Egyptian short story, extending its reading public, and shaping the characteristics of the new sensibility of that period. This group did not start as a proper literary school as the name implies, but rather as a gathering of enthusiastic young writers whose common dream of issuing a paper of their own, to express their views and publish their unconventional works, took almost a decade to be realised.

scholarly journals Ekspresja i empatia. Tauromachia okiem Reymonta ("Los toros")

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 221-234
Author(s):  
Dorota Samborska-Kukuć
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Emotional Engagement ◽  
San Sebastian ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

Reymont wrote the short story, 'Los toros', in the year 1907 after coming back from Spain, where he witnessed a corrida in San Sebastián. The choice of the genre was intentional. The writer used it to reflect the realities of life and depict a group portrait of Spaniards, in which he succeeded without a doubt, using all with his literary imagination and ability to make his works metaphoric. Baffled by the corrida as an element of Spanish culture, Reymont did not express his moral approval of torturing animals (bulls and horses) on stage. On the contrary, his narration is full of sympathy and expressions that indicate emotional engagement. The turning point, the act of pardon performed by the young shepherd and the narrator’s friend towards the bull, indicates that Reymont’s reception of the corrida was empathic. Now, we had two conclusions on the contesting of the phenomenon. Reymont’s work was used by the French Chamber of Deputies as a literary example of disapproval of bloody spectacles that are justified by tradition. 

scholarly journals William Faulkner: The Short Story Career

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Thomas Nordanberg
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
William Faulkner
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