scholarly journals Remembering William Faulkner’s Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Maszewski
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Critical Responses ◽  
Acceptance Speech

William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for the year 1949. He officially received the Prize and delivered his acceptance speech on December 10, 1950. This article re-examines critical responses to the writer’s Nobel Prize address, their interest in the address’s intertextual references to Faulkner’s earlier works and the works of other writers. The language of the address documents significant aspects of Faulkner-the writer’s/Faulkner-the reader’s aesthetic vision from the perspective of his didactic concern with the duties of the writer facing the challenges of his/ her time and as a means of constructing publicly Faulkner’s own literary self-portrait of universal dimensions.

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.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Emily's Characters in A Rose for Emily from the Perspective of Narration

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 611
Author(s):  
Xiaojun Bai ◽  
Xiaotong Zhang ◽  
Yihui Li
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Style

William Faulkner, once won the Nobel Prize in 1950 presentation speech, is considered as one of the grandest Southern American novelists, because he is seemingly the "unrivaled master of all living British and American novelists". A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner's most excellent short novels. Besides, the narrative of spaces in this novel is changeable and subtle, and the research on it has always been both difficult and hot. This paper attempts to interpret A Rose for Emily from a narrative style, to explore how Faulkner constructed the narrative of the novel, and then to analyze the characters of Emily in the novel.

Myth and Poetry in Macondo

2021 ◽  
pp. 322-340
Author(s):  
Mercedes López-Baralt
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Tree Of Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Absolute Truth ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Cyclical Time ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Acceptance Speech

One Hundred Years of Solitude has frequently been approached from a historical perspective, focusing on the colonial imprint in Latin America’s destiny. Yet in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, García Márquez made it clear that he wished to be remembered for the poetry that permeates his writing. This article is inspired by this assertion, as well as by a quote from Ernesto Sabato, who claims that for philosophers and artists, myth and poetry are keys to access the Absolute: truth, beauty, and perfection. Taking into account the few previous attempts to pursue these motifs in the novel, the article undertakes a search of the traces of both myth and poetry in García Márquez’s opera magna. The faces of myth are many: Oedipus, prophecies, magic, utopia, the mandala of the tree of life, cyclical time, alchemy, one-dimensional characters (actants), genesis, and apocalypse. On the other hand, poems and metaphors are ever present in the novel. This search led to a new reading of One Hundred Years of Solitude, discovering García Márquez’ celebration of ambiguity. For the novel’s conclusion moves the reader to two opposing interpretations: apocalypse (the destruction of Macondo and the solitary Buendía dynasty) and hope (solidarity in a new mankind). The possibility of clashing readings confirms Italo Calvino’s definition of a classic as a book that never finishes saying what it has to say.

Emily Dickinson's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

1971 ◽  
Vol 22 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Irving Molbach
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Acceptance Speech

“William Faulkner and His Biographers”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Honore De Balzac ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
English Poetry

This chapter focuses on William Faulkner's biographers, including Joseph Blotner, Frederick R. Karl, and Jay Parini. It begins by discussing how a boy of no great intellectual distinction from small-town Mississippi would grow up to be not only a famous writer, celebrated at home and abroad, but one of the most radical innovators in the annals of American fiction. It provides a background on Faulkner's education and how he, in place of schooling, resorted to an intense reading of fin-de-siècle English poetry and of three novelists: Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Joseph Conrad. The chapter also considers Faulkner's short stories and screenplays, his winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949, his views on race, and his marriage to Estelle Oldham. Finally, it looks at the Faulkner biographies written by Blotner. Karl, and Parini.

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 ...

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