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The Dixie Limited
M. Thomas Inge (Hrsg.)
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University Press of Mississippi 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
Flannery O'Connor once noted, “The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down.” Her railroading metaphor wittily captures much of the respect and unease Faulkner's example brought the worldwide community of authors.
Few other writers have exerted as profound an influence on literature as Faulkner. Prominent literary scholar M. Thomas Inge documents the scope of his influence in the twentieth century through the words of those writers themselves.
This collection of essays offers a survey attempting to capture exactly what Faulkner meant to his literary peers and colleagues both in the United States and abroad. Inge has combed essays, articles, reviews, letters, and comments written by over forty novelists, poets, and playwrights about Faulkner's fiction and the power of his literary accomplishment. Many major American writers sound off here, as well as important figures from France, England, Japan, and South America.
Some speak about his technical virtuosity and how this expertise has directly influenced them, and others express the difficulties of trying to escape his example. A few even criticize him for what they see as artistic failures. The variety of responses demonstrate, in any case, that Faulkner created an unavoidable power in his own time and remains a permanent force in literature.
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A Fable, former slaves, Edwin Muir, That Time and That Wilderness, stream of consciousness, Fiction and Life, The Sounds are Furious, gothic, Lee Smith, Caroline Gordon, Conrad Aiken, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Penn Warren, agrarian, Vladimir Nabokov, grotesque, Southerners, George Garrett, Arnold Bennett, George Orwell, Eudora Welty, The Hamlet, Flem Snopes and His Kin, Light in August, Kay Boyle, Southern Literature, Sanctuary, Soldiers’ Pay, Richard Ford, Wallace Stegner, A Man of the South, Literary Criticism, Stephen Vincent Benét, Dark Laughter in the Towers, Harry Golden, Tattered Banners, Archibald MacLeish, Wright Morris, Richard Wright, The Mansion, Willie Morris, Absalom, Absalom!, Kenzaburo Oe, John Crowe Ransom, Thomas Merton, Paul West, V. S. Pritchett, As I Lay Dying, Thornton Wilder, World Literature, James Baldwin, John Grisham, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Allen Tate, John Dos Passos, American Literature, Evelyn Scott, Elizabeth Spencer, Gentleman from Mississippi, History, Rooted in the Present, Padgett Powell, J. M. Coetzee, Laurence Stallings, The Sound and the Fury, Terry Southern, Carlos Fuentes, Alice McDermott, Yoknapatawpha County, poor white, Go Down, Moses, Flannery O’Connor, Snopes Trilogy, Richard Hughes, The Reivers, Donald Davidson, aristocrats, Dorothy Parker, Roark Bradford, Futile Souls Adrift on a Yacht, The Town, Gabriel García Márquez, working-class, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize