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Team 4:
Professor Moran
English 1302.058
October 31, 2011
Annotated Bibliography
Akers, Donald. "A Rose for Emily." Short Stories for Students. Detroit: Gale, 2002.
Literature Resource Center. Web. 24 Oct. 2011.
In Donald Akers’s “A Rose for Emily” article, there are many connecting ideas between
the story itself and the author William Faulkner. According to this article, from Donald’s
perception it is stated that having the story made up of several suspenseful events such as
Emily’s father death, Emily’s separation from the outer world having herself at home all
day every day, and the murder of Emily’s lover all suggest that Faulkner stood on more
on the dark side of stories. This article suggests that Faulkner enjoyed writing suspenseful
stories with some type of horror and darkness added like death and sex and ghost related
stories, or just a type of abnormal physiological disorder added to a character. Along with
all these suggestions came the belief that Faulkner was a gothic individual. Other ideas
emphasized suggested that this story is an allegory of the relations between the north and
the south during the civil war time, an interpretation that Faulkner denied; he stated that
he was too busy gathering the ideas and making the connections rather than expanding
the symbolism of each concept in the story. Critics’ state that “A Rose for Emily” was
written focused in the sequential order of the conflicts that occurred, rather than focusing
more on the actual dates, which gives the thought that the conflicts in the story occurred
in many different time-periods. The article ends by pointing out that there are many
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different interpretations to the connection between the story “A Rose for Emily” and the
author William Faulkner.
""William Faulkner." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition (2011): 1.
Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Oct. 2011. This brief yet informative
biography-type abstract article, composed by the Columbia University Press, summarizes
William Faulkner’s background such as his past Royal Air Force training as a cadet pilot
and the educational schools he’s previously attended. Included inside this concise
document is Faulkner’s astounding bibliography, featuring the dates they were published.
Readers will gain knowledge about Faulkner’s place and date of birth and the concerns he
had about his environment, which influenced much of his writing. Columbia University
Press discusses the pre-Civil War mansion Faulkner resided in when he wrote his novels
and the awards he has received for his brilliant literature. In addition, the article
establishes the effects his novels examined of Southern society’s traditional values and
authority. It also emphasizes Faulkner’s favorite use of convoluted time sequences in his
literary productions and the author’s famous “stream of consciousness” technique; a
narrative approach that aims to portray the individual’s POV (Point of View) by
revealing the written equivalent of the fictional character’s thought process. This
technique may be used either in a loose interior monologue or in connection to the
character’s actions, which is seen by many as Faulkner’s signature method of writing.
Columbia University Press describes Faulkner, with no doubt, as the master of a
rhetorical, highly symbolic style and a brilliant literary technician for his amazing and
historical work.
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“William Faulkner.” Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Literature Resource
Center. Web. 12 Oct. 2011.
This article is a direct insight on the life and history of William Faulkner. It examines
Faulkner’s past and future accomplishments outlining his brilliant character and laying
the foundation as to what Faulkner had brewing inside his clever little mind. The article
also makes several connections between Faulkner’s past and future revealing the
hardships he suffered growing up and how these shortcomings molded him into the
person every writer dreams to become but few rarely do. Faulkner was highly decorated
in the art of writing much like a five star general is in the art of war. The author of this
article shows no argument pertaining to the worthiness of Faulkner’s honors. In fact, Gale
seems to declare Faulkner’s merit for such honor and praise. This source ties in with my
groups question by outlining and answering the question as to who William Faulkner
was. I chose this article because it gave great exposure as to what made William Faulkner
into the literature legend many have come to love and admire. Many of my teammates
chose similar articles answering the same question as to whom William Faulkner was as a
person.
O’Connor, William Van, “Faulkner, William1897-1962.” American Writers: A Collection of
Literary Biographies. Leonard Unger Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974.
54-76. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 19 Oct. 2011
The article “William Faulkner 1897-1962,” is an analysis on the background of William
Faulkner and the influences that he used in his literary works. The article starts out
talking about his personal life; where he was born, his family, where he traveled, jobs he
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held, etc. The article then moves on to giving insight to numerous writings done by
Faulkner. It shows how he used family members and his environment in his writings.
The article is not very useful in analyzing “A Rose for Emily.” Rather it is better used as
an informational about William Faulkner and his writing style in general. I chose this
article because it is very well written and shows the influences Faulkner had in his
personal life to become the writer that he did. The most interesting thing about this article
is that it takes some of his works and dives into their themes, styles literary devices that
Faulkner employs in each. You then get an idea of who William Faulkner is as both a
person and an author.
A Rose for Emily." Short Stories for Students. Ed. Tim Akers. Vol. 6. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999.
247-267. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 24 Oct. 2011.
The main point is about a story, “ A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner is about a
woman named Emily which William Faulkner based the character on a cousin named
Mary Louis Neilson who had married a Yankee street paver named Jack Barron. William
Faulkner also bases another character which was Colonel Sartoris who was his greatgrandfather William Clark Falkner. William Faulkner uses pieces of his own life from
Oxford, Mississippi and family history in his story, A Rose for Emily.” Like Emily,
William Faulkner was frowned upon in his own home town, because of his publicly out
cry against racism and segregation. What is most interesting about the writer’s argument
is Emily in the story. When we first meet Emily in the story the narrator describes her has
a small fat woman whom the town is fascinated with her demeanor through out the years
of the town. The town has put Emily up on a pedestal though out the years which they
have a love hate relationship with her, but without knowing her. She owes several back
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taxes in the town of Jefferson, but refuses to pay due to an agreement with Colonel
Sartoris whom she is unaware he has passed away over years.
Skei, Hans H. "William Faulkner." American Short-Story Writers, 1910-1945: Second Series. Ed.
Bobby Ellen Kimbel. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991. Dictionary of Literary Biography
Vol. 102. Literature Resource Center. Web. 24 Oct. 2011.
Hans H. Skei put together short stories by William Faulkner between the years of 19101945. The writer mentions Faulkner is a novelist first; William Faulkner born September
25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. His parents are Maud Falkner and Murry Cuthbert
Falkner. In 1918, Faulkner added a “u” to his name, which changed to spelling to
Faulkner from Falkner. Most of his life was spent in Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner’s
great-grandfather had a literary reputation. Being the oldest of four brothers, he led an
adventurous life. He stopped attending high school from 1914-1915, then returned to
play football, but quit school after the football season.
Faulkner joined the Canadian Air Force, as he was unable to meet U.S. Army
requirements. He returned to Oxford as he received a discharge before he went off to
World War I.
Faulkner writes about the South and about the people that live there. Which included the
blacks that slaved there as well as well-to-do business and plantation owners, we have
seen in “A Rose for Emily. The short story was written in April 1930 and submitted to
various magazines in an attempt to earn an income. When Forum magazine purchased
the short story, it this enabled to move to Rowan Oak. In 1932, Faulkner moved to
Hollywood to seek steady income for his family.
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In “A Rose for Emily” Emily’s life was portrayed as lonely and poverty stricken because
of suitors driven away by her father. Her one boyfriend, which was a “Northern”
suddenly, disappears which surprised many as it was anticipated she would marry him.
Then we have the “secret room” that is not discovered until her death. This story is
written in Southern Gothic, which was used to describe a style writers used to portray
their vision of the South.
Wagner, Linda W. "William Faulkner." American Novelists, 1910-1945. Ed. James J. Martine.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1981. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 9. Literature
Resource Center. Web. 12 Oct. 2011.
In this biographical essay, William Faulkner is illustrated as America’s greatest modern
writer. The essay distinctively depicts Faulkner’s invigorating life and imagination that
molds all the qualities into his literary work. The “Southern Writer”, although lived and
wrote in the south has little to do with his thematic concerns of successfully employing a
large variety of narrative voices. As a child, he seemed to live in a world of imaginary
characters and event that later inscribed his love for sports rather than school when he
dropped out after the football season. He later mentored by a scholar, Stark Young,
whom was one of his mentors at the beginnings of his literary works. Through reading
this article, we found what made William Faulkner into the imaginative poet and writer
he became through all his life experiences that had led him to write the greatest novels of
all time. With other resources given we concluded that this article was the best described
about Faulkner to his early childhood to his late adulthood years. Throughout his
lifetime, William Faulkner wrote about some influences that made him into the greatest
writer known.