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William Faulkner

A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part XV

By Clyde Wilson

21.   Faulkner in Film   Southern viewers must naturally be interested in what Hollywood has done with America’s greatest 20th century writer, William Faulkner of Mississippi. **Intruder in the Dust (1949).  Perhaps the most faithful of… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Southern Film
  • Southern Literature
  • William Faulkner

Understanding Faulkner

By Mark Royden Winchell

A Review of: On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner. By Cleanth Brooks. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. 162 pp. When I think of the state of literary criticism… »

  • Mark Royden Winchell
  • Southern Literature
  • William Faulkner

Allegiances

By Clyde Wilson

William Faulkner of Mississippi was the greatest writer produced by the United States in the 20th century.  His craft was fiction, but like any great writer he was a better historian and  philosopher  than  most… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Francis Scott Key
  • Nationalism
  • William Faulkner

Shakespeare and the Earl of Oxford

By Clyde Wilson

Perceptive and insightful people have known through the centuries that William Shakespeare could not possibly have written the plays and sonnets that had been attributed to him, beginning with certain suspicious posthumous folios. That uneducated… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Southern Literature
  • William Faulkner

“Dar’s nuttin’ lak de ol’-time ways”

By Brion McClanahan

Many people are familiar with the Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project of the 1930s. While some historians reject them for what has been called gross inaccuracies due in large part to the many… »

  • Ann Virginia Culbertson
  • Black Americans
  • Brion McClanahan
  • Joel Chandler Harris
  • Slavery
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  • Thomas Nelson Page
  • William Faulkner

Japan and the South

By John Marquardt

When William Faulkner visited Japan in 1955 to attend a literary symposium in Nagano, he noted certain parallels between the aftermath of the Confederacy’s defeat in 1865 and that of Japan’s a century and a… »

  • John Marquardt
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • William Faulkner

Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XV

By Clyde Wilson

They call it progress, but they don’t say where it is going. –Faulkner Nothing occurs except the heaping up of tyranny and insult from Washington by the meanest most cowardly and unprincipled lot of men… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Patrick Henry
  • Southernisms
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • William Faulkner

Citizen Faulkner: “What We Did, In Those Old Days”

By Clyde Wilson

In honor of William Faulkner’s birthday (Sept 25), Clyde Wilson discusses Faulkner as a conservative. This essay first appeared in Clyde Wilson and Brion McClanahan, Forgotten Conservatives in American History William Faulkner is of course… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Southern Literature
  • William Faulkner

“When the American Nation Finds Itself Culturally . . .”

By Clyde Wilson

Hermann Keyserling was an Austrian writer quite well-known internationally in the early 20th century for his philosophical works and travel accounts. After an extended visit to the U.S., he published in 1929 an essay in… »

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