In 1944, William Faulkner wrote to Malcolm Cowley, "I'm telling the
same story over and over which is myself and the world. That's all
a writer ever does, he tells his own biography in a thousand
different terms."
With these words, Faulkner suggests that what changes in the
course of his prolific novel-writing career is not so much the
content but the style, "the thousand different terms" of his
fiction. The essays in "Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction," first
presented at the 1987 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the
University of Mississippi, focus on Faulkner's narrative
inventiveness, on how Faulkner, like his character Benjy in "The
Sound and the Fury," relentlessly kept "trying to say."
The contributors, authorities on Faulkner's narrative, offer a
wide variety of critical approaches to Faulkner's fiction-writing
process. Cleanth Brooks, for example, applies the strategies of New
Criticism to Faulkner's rendering of the heroic and pastoral modes;
Judith L. Sensibar attempts to locate biographical sources for
repeated Faulknerian paradigms; and Philip M. Weinstein draws on
the theories of the Marxist Althusser and the French psychoanalyst
Lacan. The topics examined are similarly wide-ranging.
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