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The Dixie Limited
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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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Laurence Stallings, History, Rooted in the Present, A Fable, A Man of the South, Tattered Banners, Wallace Stegner, Archibald MacLeish, Lee Smith, former slaves, J. M. Coetzee, American Literature, Yoknapatawpha County, Southern Literature, Dorothy Parker, Thomas Merton, Gabriel García Márquez, Padgett Powell, Gentleman from Mississippi, World Literature, Go Down, Moses, Literary Criticism, grotesque, Edwin Muir, The Sound and the Fury, Harry Golden, Richard Wright, Conrad Aiken, Jorge Luis Borges, Arnold Bennett, Dark Laughter in the Towers, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Kay Boyle, Eudora Welty, The Sounds are Furious, Snopes Trilogy, Flannery O’Connor, That Time and That Wilderness, Allen Tate, James Baldwin, Donald Davidson, Fiction and Life, Paul West, Caroline Gordon, agrarian, Richard Ford, Thornton Wilder, Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Scott, Futile Souls Adrift on a Yacht, Stephen Vincent Benét, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kenzaburo Oe, Soldiers’ Pay, The Mansion, The Reivers, Richard Hughes, John Grisham, Sanctuary, Southerners, aristocrats, working-class, Carlos Fuentes, gothic, Elizabeth Spencer, George Orwell, Roark Bradford, Flem Snopes and His Kin, Terry Southern, John Dos Passos, Wright Morris, poor white, Absalom, Absalom!, Nobel Prize, stream of consciousness, As I Lay Dying, The Town, George Garrett, Willie Morris, Lillian Hellman, Light in August, Alice McDermott, The Hamlet, V. S. Pritchett, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren