Word: faulknerisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...invasion of the first gentrifying white couple in the now all-black neighborhood in 2009. But When the Rain Stops Falling goes far beyond such schematic parallelism. Bovell's time-hopping structure is intricate but surprisingly natural - never strained or purposely obfuscating. Rather, as in the works of Faulkner, it is a powerful metaphor for the impossibility of escaping the past, for the way we are all shaped by what came before - and are living in the shadow of what comes next...
...plundered the rich, ravaged history of Mississippi and the Deep South, which, he said, "might be wretched, but it can howl." Many have chronicled this past, but none have captured its psyche as Barry did. He wrote and lived his life in the same way he led the post-Faulkner literary renaissance in Oxford--wide open and fearlessly, the same way that Civil War cavalrymen rode into battle, hurling an expression that Barry often employed when signing books for friends: "Sabers...
Humor transforms Jason from a cruel antagonist into the tragic yet triumphant epicenter of the novel. In the novel’s appendix Faulkner writes that Jason “assumed the entire burden of the rotting family in the rotting house” before he “was able to free himself forever [from] the idiot brother and the house.” Faulkner reveals that Jason sells the Compson estate and puts his brother in an insane asylum—effectively dismantling his family’s history. Some might view this ending as tragic...
...tone abruptly changes with the first sentence of the section when Jason announces, “Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.” The fatalistic overtones of this decree permeate Jason’s narration as he mocks almost every character he meets. Faulkner uses Jason’s cruel humor as the primary representation of Jason’s universal aggression towards life...
During the final day of the three-day competition, Harvard co-captain Alexandra Clarke, junior Christine Kaufmann, and senior Katie Faulkner all swam among the top six times in the 1,650-yard freestyle...