Yoknapatawpha Research Paper
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Mississippi born novelist, who was a quiet and private man who once observed, “It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from society.” Known for his distinctive voice and his evocative depictions of life in the American South, Nobel laureate William Faulkner is recognized as one of the most important authors of the twentieth century.
The myth of Yoknapatawpha
Yoknapatawpha is a fictional place created by William Faulkner, his “intact world” of the North- Central Mississippi as the setting of his novels. Most of Faulkner’s body of work is set primarily in the mythological county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi. Of the nineteen novels, only five are set elsewhere, and even these sometimes touch its borders. Yoknapatawpha actually corresponds to the actual Lafayette County, though differing in some details. Yoknapatawpha has given its name to a cycle of interconnected major novels and some minor works set there, beginning with SARTORIS (1929) and continuing through The SOUND AND THE FURY (1929), AS I LAY DYING (1930), LIGHT IN AUGUST (1932), ABSALOM, …show more content…
He sketched the outlines of his legendary place in Sartoris, his third novel. In Absalom, Absalom! The novelist drew a map of his fictional county, signing himself “William Faulkner, sole owner and proprietor. He prepared a second map for the Viking Press’s The PORTABLE FAULKNER (1946). The Absalom sketch gives Yoknapatawpha County an area of 2,400 square miles, with a population of 6,298 whites and 9,313 Negroes. The fictional county is more than three times larger than Lafayette County, with only two-thirds of Lafayette’s population; nor did the real place ever have a black majority. The TALLAHATCHIE RIVER forms the northern boundary of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha; the YOCONA RIVER delimits the county on the south. There are no formal eastern or western
William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Mississippi born novelist, who was a quiet and private man who once observed, “It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from society.” Known for his distinctive voice and his evocative depictions of life in the American South, Nobel laureate William Faulkner is recognized as one of the most important authors of the twentieth century.
The myth of Yoknapatawpha
Yoknapatawpha is a fictional place created by William Faulkner, his “intact world” of the North- Central Mississippi as the setting of his novels. Most of Faulkner’s body of work is set primarily in the mythological county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi. Of the nineteen novels, only five are set elsewhere, and even these sometimes touch its borders. Yoknapatawpha actually corresponds to the actual Lafayette County, though differing in some details. Yoknapatawpha has given its name to a cycle of interconnected major novels and some minor works set there, beginning with SARTORIS (1929) and continuing through The SOUND AND THE FURY (1929), AS I LAY DYING (1930), LIGHT IN AUGUST (1932), ABSALOM, …show more content…
He sketched the outlines of his legendary place in Sartoris, his third novel. In Absalom, Absalom! The novelist drew a map of his fictional county, signing himself “William Faulkner, sole owner and proprietor. He prepared a second map for the Viking Press’s The PORTABLE FAULKNER (1946). The Absalom sketch gives Yoknapatawpha County an area of 2,400 square miles, with a population of 6,298 whites and 9,313 Negroes. The fictional county is more than three times larger than Lafayette County, with only two-thirds of Lafayette’s population; nor did the real place ever have a black majority. The TALLAHATCHIE RIVER forms the northern boundary of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha; the YOCONA RIVER delimits the county on the south. There are no formal eastern or western