Word: faulknerisms
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...concern is themselves-and the place they will have in society-they seem to read less for esthetic pleasure than for answers. They still study, though they do not imitate, such erstwhile heroes as Hemingway and Joyce, but the nearest thing they have to a U.S. literary ideal is Faulkner. James Gould Cozzens has made little impression on them. Students read Koestler, but Orwell gets a bigger play. Eliot holds his own, but as much for his criticism as for his poetry. Dylan Thomas is admired, but evokes no hysteria. Students still delve into Freud, but they are just...
...Series, given by a famous poet who is an alumnus of the Advocate, may, however, be given by William Faulkner, neither as an alumnus nor a poet, if the Nobel prizewinner accepts the magazine's invitation...
...days with English concentrators and dilettantes leaning forward to memorize Perry Miller's interpretations of the White Whale; Sever Hall draws about a roomful of the less dilettantish who wish to gain Kenneth Murdock's analyses of American literature to 1825; and the Coop is stocked with books by Faulkner, Twain, Hawthorne, Cooper, and the Puritan writers...
...Department made perhaps its most recent advancement by showing that it was cognizant of the importance of contemporary authors, and offered a course on Faulkner...
...country, much of the literary talent in the past thirty years has come from the South: Wolfe, Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and John Crowe Ransom. The South has its own colorful history, way of life and values, all of which came into conflict with the North, a region claiming moral superiority and possessing physical superiority. Southern writers became increasingly aware of the value of regionalism and fought the omnivorousness of Megapolis the exclusive formation of literary taste by New York. This moment reached its peak with the Southern Agarian movement led by Robert Penn...