![]() ![]() ![]() And this is Jefferson, Mississippi, in Faulkner’s works. It’s obviously made up, but very much based on Oxford. Faulkner was both the creator of his own writings but also a reader of other people’s writings.Īnd this is the mythic Yoknapatawpha County– I always have trouble saying this– and it’s mapped by Faulkner himself. We have to keep in mind that authors are also readers as well, and what they read makes a difference to how they write. You’ll see that he was a very bookish author, surrounded by books as he wrote. It is the most important place in the Central Square in Oxford. The Confederate monument in that square is very important to the plot of The Sound and the Fury. And keep this square in mind, because in fact it will come back at the very end of The Sound and the Fury. This is his statue in the Courthouse Square in Oxford. And the little boy on the pony, that’s Faulkner. But this is the Trigg-Doyle-Falkner House in 1904. Likewise, Faulkner used to be spelled F-A-L-K-N-E-R. So Hawthorne used to be H-A-T-H-O-R-N-E, the W wasn’t there initially. And you notice that actually quite a few American authors changed the spelling of the name. And I just want to show you a few images of Faulkner’s Oxford, Oxford, Mississippi. Professor Wai Chee Dimock: We’re getting started on The Sound and the Fury. ![]() Images of Faulkner’s Oxford, Mississippi Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner AMST 246 - Lecture 6 - Faulkner's The Sound and the FuryĬhapter 1. ![]()
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