William Faulkner - The Art of Stylization in His Early Graphic and Literary Work

Klappentext Studies Faulkner's beginnings by focussing on the aspect of 'stylisation'. Zusammenfassung With a writer of Faulkner's scope and subtlety even the study of his beginnings is a challenging task. How did the young man who imitated Swinburne's verse and Beardsley's drawings develop into the author of The Sound and the Fury and Absalom! Absalom!? Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Faulkner and the Art of Stylization; Part I. Faulkner's Artwork: 1. Faulkner, Fin de Siécle, and Early Modernism; 2. Faulkner as Cartoonist and Parodist of the Twenties; Part II. 'A Keats in Embryo.' On Faulkner's Poetry: 3. Points of Departure: Faulkner's Pre-Raphaelite Poems; 4. From Swinburne to Eliot; Part III. The Poetic Play: 5. A Theater of Masks and Marionettes; 6. The Iconography of Faulkner's Marionettes; Part IV. The Creation of a New Prose: 7. From The Marionettes to A Fable: The Impact of the Early Work on Faulkner's Novels; 8. From 'The Hill' to The Hamlet: The Role of the Prose Poem in Faulkner's Development.

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• Authors: Lothar Honnighausen, Honnighausen Lothar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521107280
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10728-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies