The Dixie Limited

Writers on William Faulkner and His Influence

M. Thomas Inge

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781496803382
• eBook ISBN:
  9781496806758
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

Flannery O'Connor once noted, "The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down." Her railroading metaphor wittily captures much of the respect and unease Faulkner's example brought the worldwide community of authors. Few other writers have exerted as profound an influence on literature as Faulkner. Prominent literary scholar M. Thomas Inge documents the scope of his influence in the twentieth century through the words of those writers themselves. This collection of essays offers a survey attempting to capture exactly what Faulkner meant to his literary peers and colleagues both in the United States and abroad. Inge has combed essays, articles, reviews, letters, and comments written by over forty novelists, poets, and playwrights about Faulkner's fiction and the power of his literary accomplishment. Many major American writers sound off here, as well as important figures from France, England, Japan, and South America. Some speak about his technical virtuosity and how this expertise has directly influenced them, and others express the difficulties of trying to escape his example. A few even criticize him for what they see as artistic failures. The variety of responses demonstrate, in any case, that Faulkner created an unavoidable power in his own time and remains a permanent force in literature.

INDEX

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A la récherche du temps perdu

Abinger Harvest

Absalom, Absalom!

“Absolution”

Act of Darkness

Adams, Nick

Adler, Alfred

Advertisements for Myself

Aesop

Aiken, Conrad

Alcott, Louisa May

Aldington, Richard

Algren, Nelson

Alice in Wonderland

“All the Dead Pilots”

All the King’s Men

Allard, Bill

Allende, Isabel

American Mercury

Ames, Dalton

Andersen, Hans Christian

Anderson, Sherwood

Andreyev, Leonid

Antaeus

Antic Hay

Apollo

Appleton, Bill

Arbuckle, Fatty

Aristotle

Armstid, Henry

Armstid, Martha

Arnold, Matthew

Art of Faulkner’s Novels, The

Artemis

As I Lay Dying

As You Like It

Asturias, Miguel Ángel

Atlantic

Augie March

Aunt ’Bama

Austen, Jane

“Babylon Revisited”

Baker, Terry

Baldwin, James

Balzac, Honoré de

Barbusse, Henri

Barnes, Jake

Barnett, Ross

Barr, Mammy Caroline

Barron, Homer

Barth, John

Barthelme, Donald

Basket, Herman

Baskett, Sam

Baudelaire, Charles

“Bear, The”

Beauchamp family

Beautiful and Damned, The

Beck, Warren

Bedford, Sallie

Bellow, Saul

“Bells, The”

Benbow, Horace

Benét, Stephen Vincent

Benjamin, Walter

Benjamin’s Crossing

Bennett, Arnold

Benny, Jack

Bergson, Henri

Berryman, John

Bible

Big Woods

Bilbo, Theodore

Bishop, John Peale

Black Boy

Blaine, Amory

Blake, William

Bland, Gerald

Blotner, Joseph

Bobbsey Twins, The

Bogart, Humphrey

Bolling, Binx

Bon, Charles Etienne de Saint Valery

Bond, Jim

Borges, Jorge Luis

Bosch, Hieronymus

Bouilhet, Louis

Boulanger, Rodolphe

Bovary, Emma

Boyle, Kay

Boynton, Percy

Bradford, Roark

Brautigan, Richard

Brighton Rock

Brooks, Cleanth

Brothers Karamazov, The

Browning, Robert

Browning, Tod

Buchanan, Daisy

Bud, Uncle

Bunch, Byron

Bundren...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• “William Faulkner” / 1926
• “Futile Souls Adrift on a Yacht” / 1927
• “On William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury” / 1929
• “Preface” to British edition of Soldiers’ Pay / 1930
• Review of Soldiers’ Pay / 1930
• “Gentleman from Mississippi” / 1935
• Review of As I Lay Dying / 1935
• “New Technique in Novel Introduced” / 1936
• “Tattered Banners” / 1938
• “On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of William Faulkner” / 1939
• “Flem Snopes and His Kin” / 1940
• “Fiction and Life” / 1940
• Journal Entries / 1940 and 1949
• “Mr. Faulkner’s Southern Saga” / 1946
• “The Private World of William Faulkner” / 1948
• Letter to Edmund Wilson / 1948
• “A Man of the South” / 1950
• “William Faulkner: The Novel as Form” / 1951
• “Faulkner at Stockholm” / 1951
• “William Faulkner: An Impression” / 1951
• “Faulkner and Desegregation” / 1956
• “Best Fiction of 1957” / 1957
• “Dark Laughter in the Towers” / 1960
• “William Faulkner” / 1962
• “That Time and That Wilderness” / 1962
• “William Faulkner” / 1962
• “Faulkner” / 1962
• “Author Gave Life to Fictional County” / 1962
• “The Influence of William Faulkner” / 1964
• “Faulkner: Past and Future” / 1966
• “The Sounds are Furious” / 1967
• “The Narrators” / 1971
• “Literary Influences” / 1972
• “William Faulkner” / 1978
• “Emerging as a Writer in Faulkner’s Mississippi” / 1981
• “The Three Kings: Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald” / 1983
• “Reading Faulkner from a Writer’s Point of View” / 1981
• “Faulkner’s Mississippi” / 1989
• “The Faulkner Thing” / 1992
• “History, Rooted in the Present” / 1997
• “On Coming Late to Faulkner” / 1997
• “Lee Smith Talks about Southern Writing” / 1998
• “Absalom, Absalom!” / 1999
• “The Book That Changed My Life” / 2002
• “William Faulkner and His Biographers” / 2005
• Index