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The influence of the pre-Civil War Southwestern humorists on the work of William Faulkner has long been hypothesized. But it has received scant critical attention, much of it erroneous or so general as to be almost meaningless. While Faulkner's total vision is more than merely humorous, humor is a significant part of that vision. And the importance of frontier humor to Faulkner's art is further substantiated by the fact that many of his grotesque passages derive from elements of this humor. Frontier humor flourished from I830 to I860, and while a large group of men then flooded American newspapers with contributions, it now survives in anthologies and the book-length collections of its most prominent writers — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Joseph Glover Baldwin, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, and George Washington Harris. Their writings illustrate the genre's growth from mere regionalism in eighteenth century diction to the robust and masculine humor in the frontiersman's own language. Harris is the best of these humorists because he has a better sense of incongruity and consistently tells his stories in the earthy vernacular of the frontiersman; and Faulkner himself admires Sut Lovingood, principle character-cum-raconteur of Harris's best work. Therefore, in this thesis I focus on Harris's Sut Lovingood in relation to the Snopes trilogy of Faulkner — his longest unified work and a "chronicle” of Yoknapatawpha County with much frontier humor in it. A major parallel between Faulkner and Harris is their similar use of the story-within-a-story device and their similar technical rendering of the highly figurative and even in Harris's time somewhat stylized language of the frontier. Their common Southern heritage and the lack of change in the post-bellum Southern backwoodsman conduces to a similar milieu. Harris's and Faulkner's recurrent theme of retribution derives from the frontiersman's individualism and from his concern for at least the rudiments of society. Both authors create a large number of frontier characters at and their principal frontier characters are at once superb story tellers and epitomize the best ideals of the American frontier. The purpose of this thesis, then, is to examine the ways in which Faulkner parallels Harris's frontier humor. Having established Harris as the best writer in his group, I discuss the two authors' structures and techniques, their milieus and themes, and their characters. The trilogy's similarities with and deviations from Harris's Sut Lovingood help to illuminate Faulkner's artistry as well as to suggest the strength of Harris's influence on Faulkner. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

This study analyzes these stories in their original and later forms, both to discover the types of changes Faulkner made and to determine whether or not he followed any pattern in the revisions.

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This thesis probes the materiality of a text by focusing on elliptical matters. In The Culture of Time and Space, Stephen Kern introduces the term "positive-negative space" to describe the primacy of empty space as a formal subject matter in sculptures of the early twentieth century. With some caveats and distinctions, the thesis argues that Kern's theory of positive-negative space is crucial for reading Faulkner's crytic and polyvalent production of space. Using a smorgasbord of approaches including psychoanalytic and reader-response criticism, feminist and critical race theories, post-structuralist and formalist notions of space, theories of the "hole" in fine arts sculpture, and the New Southern studies, my thesis reinvents the conception of positive-negative space, and asserts that positive-negative space as an artistic principle" is the modus operandi of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Sanctuary. / by Simone Maria Puleo. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.

Le projet de création Le chasseur inconnu est un roman dont la narration problématique – au nous – constitue la principale particularité. Campé dans un village non identifié dont les habitants se réunissent chaque semaine pour débattre de leurs problèmes et pour potiner, ce texte de fiction se déploie grâce aux voix de narrateurs mystérieux et à leur ton parfois aux limites de l’absurde. L’essai réflexif qui suit le roman propose une étude des enjeux et des effets de la narration au nous dans la nouvelle Une rose pour Emily de William Faulkner. / The novel Le chasseur inconnu’s most defining characteristic is its narration ;  an unnatural we narration. The story takes place in an unknown town where villagers meet every week to discuss their problems and to gossip. As the plot unfolds, the mysterious narrators and their absurd voices become increasingly important and stress the narrative peculiarity of the novel. The essay following Le chasseur inconnu offers a study of we narration in William Faulkner’s short story A Rose for Emily.

The Myth of the Old South, like all myths, contains some elements of truth, but like all myths, it contains some things that are not true. Faulkner has used those parts of the Myth that are true, but he has repudiated and in many cases destroyed those parts of the Myth which he has found to be the product of imagination rather than history.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Hispánica / Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades / Me gustaría compartir, a modo de introducción, el proceso por el cual llegué a mi propuesta de tesina. El punto de partida es el seminario de Recepción de tragedia contemporánea, en el cual se enmarca todo este trabajo. El seminario tenía como objetivo el análisis de la recepción de la tragedia griega y la tragedia isabelina en el teatro contemporáneo, considerando las dos posibilidades de actualización del género: la recepción creativa de argumentos de tragedias en obras dramática y la recepción creativa de las propiedades del género en la escritura de nuevas tragedias. Comencé con una intuición y un impulso basado únicamente en obsesiones personales: William Faulkner. El primer intento fue desde Luz de Agosto, la conocida novela que tanta locura y horror había causado a André Gide. Sin embargo estaba el problema del género. Como antes señalé el curso se abocaba al estudio de obras dramáticas. Luego apareció la adaptación para el teatro que Albert Camus había hecho de Réquiem para una mujer1 de Faulkner. Y cuando finalmente tuve las dos obras en mis manos, la original, la de Faulkner, exhibió toda su complejidad. Se trataba de un hibrido que conjugaba características discursivas y formales predominantemente narrativas con elementos asociados a lo dramático. Con Réquiem para una mujer podía amoldarme a las exigencias del curso sin dejar de lado los caprichos

Tesis para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa / Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades / Faulkner’s fiction is pregnant with the uncontrollable forces phenomenon. These forces override human volition and prediction. In The Sound and the Fury the most important expression of these forces is Caddy as a symbol of female sexuality. In this thesis I explore how characters view this phenomenon. These phenomenon is investigated by using Ricoeur’s hermeneutical literary approach