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Faulkner said that "Life is motion" and that "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life." The author's purpose is, in the light of these statements, to define Faulkner's intentions as a novelist and to



Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*Faulkner works quoted in text, pg. xiii*Introduction, pg. 1*One / Apprenticeship, pg. 16*Two / Tools: Structure, pg. 57*Three / Tools: Texture, pg. 106*Four / Moral, pg. 130*Five / Work: Absalom, Absalom!, pg. 172*Six / Work: The Sound and the Fury, pg. 215*Index, pg. 249

Faulkner Myth and Motion

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/12/2015
      ISBN13: 9780691622392, 978-0691622392
      ISBN10: 0691622396
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Faulkner said that "Life is motion" and that "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life." The author's purpose is, in the light of these statements, to define Faulkner's intentions as a novelist and to



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*Faulkner works quoted in text, pg. xiii*Introduction, pg. 1*One / Apprenticeship, pg. 16*Two / Tools: Structure, pg. 57*Three / Tools: Texture, pg. 106*Four / Moral, pg. 130*Five / Work: Absalom, Absalom!, pg. 172*Six / Work: The Sound and the Fury, pg. 215*Index, pg. 249

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