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Yoknapatawpha
Yoknapatawpha County () is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford (which Faulkner renamed "Jefferson"). Faulkner often referred to Yoknapatawpha County as "my apocryphal county". Overview From '' Sartoris'' onwards, Faulkner set all but three of his novels in the county, as well as over 50 of his stories (the three later novels which were set elsewhere were '' Pylon'', '' The Wild Palms'', and ''A Fable''). ''Absalom, Absalom!'' includes a map of Yoknapatawpha County drawn by Faulkner. The word ''Yoknapatawpha'' is derived from two Chickasaw words—''Yocona'' and ''petopha'', meaning "split land." Faulkner said to a University of Virginia audience that the compound means "water flows slow through flat land." ''Yoknapatawpha'' was the original name for the actual Yocona River, a tributary of the Tallahatchie which runs through the southern p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoknapatawpha
Yoknapatawpha County () is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford (which Faulkner renamed "Jefferson"). Faulkner often referred to Yoknapatawpha County as "my apocryphal county". Overview From '' Sartoris'' onwards, Faulkner set all but three of his novels in the county, as well as over 50 of his stories (the three later novels which were set elsewhere were '' Pylon'', '' The Wild Palms'', and ''A Fable''). ''Absalom, Absalom!'' includes a map of Yoknapatawpha County drawn by Faulkner. The word ''Yoknapatawpha'' is derived from two Chickasaw words—''Yocona'' and ''petopha'', meaning "split land." Faulkner said to a University of Virginia audience that the compound means "water flows slow through flat land." ''Yoknapatawpha'' was the original name for the actual Yocona River, a tributary of the Tallahatchie which runs through the southern p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel Prize laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature. Born in New Albany, Mississippi, Faulkner's family moved to Oxford, Mississippi when he was a young child. With the outbreak of World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel '' Soldiers' Pay'' (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote '' Sartoris'' (1927), his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published ''The Sound and the Fury''. The following year, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flags In The Dust
''Flags in the Dust'' is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, completed in 1927. His publisher heavily edited the manuscript with Faulkner's reluctant consent, removing about 40,000 words in the process. That version was published as '' Sartoris'' in 1929. Faulkner's original manuscript of ''Flags in the Dust'' was published in 1973, and ''Sartoris'' was subsequently taken out of print. Plot The novel deals with the decay of an aristocratic southern family just after the end of World War I. The wealthy Sartoris family of Jefferson, Mississippi, lives under the shadow of its dead patriarch, Colonel John Sartoris. Colonel John was a Confederate cavalry officer during the Civil War, built the local railroad, and is a folk hero. The surviving Sartorises are his younger sister, Virginia Du Pre ("Aunt Jenny" or "Miss Jenny"), his son Bayard Sartoris ("Old Bayard"), and his great-grandson Bayard Sartoris ("Young Bayard"). The novel begins with the return of young Bayard Sart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sartoris
''Sartoris'' is a novel, first published in 1929, by the American author William Faulkner. It portrays the decay of the Mississippi aristocracy following the social upheaval of the American Civil War. The 1929 edition is an abridged version of Faulkner's original work. The full text was published in 1973 as ''Flags in the Dust''. Faulkner's great-grandfather William Clark Falkner, himself a colonel in the American Civil War, served as the model for Colonel John Sartoris. Faulkner also fashioned other characters in the book on local people from his hometown Oxford. His friend Ben Wasson was the model for Horace Benbow, while Faulkner's brother Murry served as the antetype for young Bayard Sartoris. Synopsis The novel deals with the decay of an aristocratic southern family just after the end of World War I. The wealthy Sartoris family of Jefferson, Mississippi, lives under the shadow of its dead patriarch, Colonel John Sartoris. Colonel John was a Confederate cavalry officer d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Grenier
Louis Grenier is a fictional character in William Faulkner's novels and stories. Grenier (died 1837), a French Huguenot architect and dilettante came, around 1800, with Dr. Samuel Habersham and Alexander Holston to the settlement which would later become Jefferson. Grenier was a student at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf. He bought land in the southeastern part of Yoknapatawpha County and established the first cotton plantation and had the first slaves in that part of the state. His slaves straightened a nearly ten-mile stretch of the Yoknapatawpha River to prevent flooding A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrolog ..., according to ''The Hamlet''. His house later became known as the Old Frenchman's Place, and the small settlement as Frenchman's Bend. His last living descendan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford, Mississippi
Oxford is a city and college town in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Oxford lies 75 miles (121 km) south-southeast of Memphis, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Lafayette County. Founded in 1837, it was named after the British city of Oxford. The University of Mississippi, also known as "Ole Miss" is located adjacent to the city. Purchasing the land from a Chickasaw, pioneers founded Oxford in 1837. In 1841, the Mississippi State Legislature selected it as the site of the state's first university, Ole Miss. Oxford is also the hometown of Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner, and served as the inspiration for his fictional Jefferson in Yoknapatawpha County. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, who served as a US Supreme Court Justice and Secretary of the Interior, also lived and is buried in Oxford. As of the 2020 US Census, the population was 25,416. History Oxford and Lafayette County were formed from lands ceded by the Chickasaw people in the Treaty of Pontotoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absalom, Absalom!
''Absalom, Absalom!'' is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. Taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen. Plot summary ''Absalom, Absalom!'' details the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, a white man born into poverty in western Virginia who moves to Mississippi with the dual aims of gaining wealth and becoming a powerful family patriarch. The story is told entirely in flashbacks narrated mostly by Quentin Compson to his roommate at Harvard College, Shreve, who frequently contributes his own suggestions and surmises. The narration of Rosa Coldfield, and Quentin's father and grandfather, are also included and re-interpreted by Shreve and Quentin, with the total events of the story unfolding in nonchronological order and often with differing details. This results in a peeling-back-the-onion revelation of the true story of the Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fictional Location
Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality, such as the Negaverse or Planet X. Writers may create and describe such places to serve as backdrop for their fictional works. Fictional locations are also created for use as settings in role-playing games such as ''Dungeons and Dragons''. They may also be used for technical reasons in actual reality for use in the development of specifications, such as the fictional country of Bookland, which is used to allow EAN "country" codes 978 and 979 to be used for ISBN numbers assigned to books, and code 977 to be assigned for use for ISSN numbers on magazines and other periodicals. Fictional locations vary greatly in their size. Very small places like a single room are kept out of the umbrella of fictional locations by convention, as are most single buildings. A fictional location can be the size of a university ( H. P. Lovecraft's Miskatonic University), a town (Stephen King's Salem's Lot), a county ( Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compson Family
The Compson family is a fictional family created by American author William Faulkner for use in his novels and short stories. A once prominent family in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the family began to fall on hard times in the twentieth century. Principally depicted in ''The Sound and the Fury'' and in its appendix, they also make appearances in ''Absalom, Absalom!'' and stories such as "That Evening Sun". The family name is also referred to briefly in the opening chapter of ''Requiem for a Nun''. Faulkner traced their genealogy Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kins ... from 1699 to 1945. Compson family members Jason Lycurgus Compson I; Quentin MacLachan Compson II (the Old Governor); Gen. Jason Lycurgus Compson II; Jason Richmond Lycurgus Compson III; his wife Carol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
''If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem'' is a novel by the American author William Faulkner published in 1939. The novel was originally published under the title ''The Wild Palms'', which is the title of one of the two interwoven stories. This title was chosen by the publishers, Random House, over the objections of Faulkner's choice of a title. Subsequent editions have since been printed under the title ''If I Forget Thee Jerusalem'' (1990, following the "corrected text" and format of Noel Polk), and since 2003 it is now usually referred to by both names, with the newer title following the historically first published title and in brackets, to avoid confusion: ''The Wild Palms f I Forget Thee, Jerusalem'. Like four other Faulkner novels ('' Soldiers' Pay'', ''Mosquitoes'', '' Pylon'' and ''A Fable),'' the novel is not set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Plot The book consist of two different stories, told in non-linear fashion in alternating chapters, which contain both parallel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pylon (novel)
''Pylon'' is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. Published in 1935, ''Pylon'' is set in New Valois, a fictionalized version of New Orleans. It is one of Faulkner's few novels set outside Yoknapatawpha County, his favorite fictional setting. ''Pylon'' is the story of a group of barnstormers whose lives are thoroughly unconventional. They live hand-to-mouth, always just a step or two ahead of destitution, and their interpersonal relationships are unorthodox and shocking by the standards of their society and times. They meet an overwrought and extremely emotional newspaperman in New Valois, who gets deeply involved with them, with tragic consequences. The novel provided the basis for the 1957 film ''The Tarnished Angels ''The Tarnished Angels'' is a 1957 black-and-white American CinemaScope drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, and Robert Middleton. The screenplay by George Zuckerman is based on ...' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafayette County, Mississippi
Lafayette County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. At the 2010 census, the population was 47,351. Its county seat is Oxford. The local pronunciation of the name is "la-FAY-et." The county's name honors Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero and American general who fought during the American Revolutionary War. The Oxford, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Lafayette County. The county is policed by the Lafayette County Sheriff's Department. Lafayette County is often regarded as the inspiration for Yoknapatawpha County, the fictional setting of many of William Faulkner's works. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (7.0%) is water. Major highways * U.S. Route 278 * Mississippi Highway 6 * Mississippi Highway 7 * Mississippi Highway 9W * Mississippi Highway 30 * Mississippi Highway 315 * Mississippi Highway 331 * Mississippi Highway 334 Adjacent counties * Marshall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
