Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction
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In 1944 William Faulkner wrote to Malcolm Cowley “I’m telling the same story over and over which is myself and the world. That’s all a writer ever does he tells his own biography in a thousand different terms.”<P>With these words Faulkner suggests that what changes in the course of his prolific novel-writing career is not so much the content but the style “the thousand different terms” of his fiction. The essays in <i>Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction</i> first presented at the 1987 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi focus on Faulkner’s narrative inventiveness on how Faulkner like his character Benjy in <i>The Sound and the Fury</i> relentlessly kept “trying to say.”<P>The contributors authorities on Faulkner’s narrative offer a wide variety of critical approaches to Faulkner’s fiction-writing process. Cleanth Brooks for example applies the strategies of New Criticism to Faulkner’s rendering of the heroic and pastoral modes; Judith L. S
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