Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors of the Advocate have been fortunate in bringing together a series of critical articles on Faulkner that are consistently thoughtful and rewarding. The collection avoids generalities and presents a wide range and clash of opinions, with conflicts as interesting as the similarities...
...articles represent quite different attitudes towards Faulkner's style. To take the more conventional first, Conrad Aiken examines the various peculiarities of Faulkner's writing as semi-deliberate technical devices that may be judged in terms of their effect on the reader. He maintains, to begin: "Mr. Faulkner's style, though often brilliant and always interesting, is all too frequently downright bad." After quoting several horrible examples he complains of the "overelaborate sentence structure"; this complaint, by the way, is in a column of type consisting of five of his own sentences, of median length 67 words...
...Advocate tomorrow will publish a comprehensive study of author William Faulkner, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for literature...
...months in preparation, the 44-page issue will present 12 commentaries on Faulkner, plus the text of a speech by the author himself. In 1940, the magazine presented a similar issue devoted to the modern American poet, Wallace Stevens...
Requiem for a Nun, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner returns to the characters of Sanctuary (1931), reports them older, sadder, a little wiser, with an outside chance of saving their souls (TIME, Sept...