Word: faulknerisms
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...Mount Moriah and switching coon tails in everybody's face was Wesley Beavers, and laid against his back like sleep was Rosacoke Mustian who was maybe his girl . . ." There is nothing wrong with this, or with the other two-thirds of the sentence still to come, except that Faulkner holds the patent...
Insulted? But with the discovery of Culture, life took on new meaning. In 1951 he composed a scathing 7,000-word tract. Has God Been Insulted Here?, in which he deplored the "vulgarity" of Faulkner, James Jones, Picasso and Tennessee Williams. Four years later, he bought full-page ads in six Manhattan newspapers to complain that the art world was misleading the people with "obscurity, confusion, immorality, violence," demanded that the public rise up against the "high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo." Bolstering his messianic pronouncements with cash. Hartford got Architect Edward...
...courses needed for graduation, 17 are required subjects-from art, music and literature to government and foreign languages (Russian, Chinese, Spanish or French). Under a new "little-college" program, 20-odd students meet eight hours a week with two professors to discuss Western institutions and literature, from Plato to Faulkner. Though it still owns only 25,000 books, Oakland has just opened a new $1,500,000 library with space for 750,000 volumes. In hopes of boosting out-of-state enrollment to 25%, the school has built four new dormitories...
When the image makers get around to studying the matter, they should consider the case of Robert Penn Warren. William Faulkner's image may have more dazzle, but for steady, omnidirectional glow, Warren's image holds a high place among living American authors. This is not entirely accounted for by Warren's talent; there are better poets, novelists and critics now practicing, and there may well be better professors at Yale. Diversity is the secret. For some reason, while a man who is superb in one field does not necessarily have a really ineluctable image...
...Faulkner, the social order is violated, debasing the semifeudal values of a landed gentry. In Tennessee Williams, what is violated is love and a kind of vagrant individuality. In Carson McCullers, there is the violation of innocence. At its best, this mixture of grief and grievance is poetic, at its worst, bathetic. As craftsmen, the Southern writers are generally sloppy; they represent the triumph of mood over matter...