Tag Archives: William Faulkner

lost generation: secret wound

The image and the shadow of Ernest Hemingway. What psychic jackals stalked the dazzling public persona? … Of course, the real importance of the Hemingway image has been its effect on literary history. it appeared at exactly the right time: … Continue reading

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trial of a soapbox romantic

The problem with the prodigy, the adult prodigy, is the fact of dealing with once being great, and living perpetually in eclipse. Orson Welles was a romantic since birth, a romantic always outside, outside adapting to the narrow and canny … Continue reading

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frankenheimer

Soon after he discovered that his acting was terrible, John Frankenheimer decided to become a director as a twenty-year old undergraduate at Williams College. Twelve years later he had directed one hundred twenty-seven television shows and five motion pictures and … Continue reading

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Jackie : putting pins in the valley of the dolls

A product of her times. Or simply another variant on the white liberal Eastern establishment, make that neo-liberal and what appears to be appallingly ethno-centric and racist, filled with any number of twisted ideas as a defense mechanism in guarding … Continue reading

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The N WORD and HUCK fiNN: When the Revolution Comes

Politically correct. Civilized. Lynchings and catfish and the more “dangerous” notions of interracial sex.”How could a black revolutionary ever be sure that white radicals would not return to the fold of white racism.” …IS the road to racism, a separate … Continue reading

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LOST GENERATION : RECLAIMED FROM THE WASTELAND

The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900’s. At this point in time, America had become a great place to, “go into some … Continue reading

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THE PATTER ON YOUR OLD TIN HAT

The Bugle sings: “Go to sleep! Go to sleep! Slumber well where the shells screamed and fell. Let your rifles rest on the muddy floor, You will not need them any more. Danger’s past; Now at last, Go to sleep.” … Continue reading

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THE ULTIMATUM TEAM: ARE WE ALL PLAYING IN THE SAME BAND?

We’re all playing in the same band There’s enough guitars for you and me Stand beside your brother and take his hand Seems the times are changing finally We’re all playing in the same band Sing the song together and … Continue reading

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ABSURDLY DEAD IN THE PRESENT TENSE

In France, it is even possible to remain a writer without writing, as Rimbaud did, living in the consciousness of his contemporaries after his premature creative death, or Valery during his seventeen year silence. So passionately does France hold literature … Continue reading

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LAUGHING WITH THE SUB-LITERARIES IN DIXIE

Whether or not humor has been considered too elusive or trivial to warrant serious study on its own terms ,like the popular culture of which it is both part and a partaker, is unclear. Some scholars such as Jesse Bier, … Continue reading

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