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Born: September 25, 1897 - New Albany, Mississippi
Died: July 6, 1962 - near Oxford, Mississippi
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 hen the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o' clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Teaching Topics in Social Studies
Faulkner was born and lived in the POST-RECONSTRUCTION ERA in THE AMERICAN SOUTH,
still thick in the memory of the CIVIL WAR (his father was a CONFEDERATE colonel) and on the cusp of the hardship of the DEPRESSION ERA.. During WORLD WAR I his application to the U.S. ARMY for pilot training was rejected and he joined the ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE.
Teaching Topics in Language Arts
Faulkner's NARRATIVE STYLE has been compared to that of James Joyce; his NARRATORS were driven by STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
The ORGANIZATION of The Sound and the Fury
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which he published in BOOKS and MAGAZINES. He later went on to EDIT a newspaper, but he always continued with his LITERARY CRITIQUE. He also enjoyed writing LETTERS to literary colleagues. Mencken is probably best known for American Language, which gives examples of
IDIOMS and American expressions.
| Facts About William Faulkner and The Sound and the Fury |
- William Faulker stood 5'6" tall
- He never graduated from high school or earned a college degree
- He was born William Cuthbert Falkner-his name was first know to have been spelled Faulkner in employee records at a job in New Haven, where Faulkner worked with the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
- The Sound and the Fury is the second of his Yoknapatawpha cycle-novels that were set in this mythical southern county
- In 1930, Faulker sought privacy from the fame he achieved as a writer by purchasing a pre-Civil War mansion; he named it Rowan Oak-after the legend of the protective powers of the Rowan tree illustrated in Sir James Frazer's poem The Golden Bough
- Faulkner had a smoke house on the property, where he cured his own bacon, ham and sausage
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