Faulkner in the university / edited by Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner ; with an introduction by Douglas Day.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gwynn, Frederick L. (Frederick Landis), 1916-1965.

Blotner, Joseph, 1923-2012.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Interviews.

Faulkner, William.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

University of Virginia.

Novelists, American--20th century--Interviews.

Novelists, American.

History.

English teachers.

Interviews.

Virginia--Charlottesville.

English teachers--Virginia--Charlottesville--Interviews.

University of Virginia--History--Sources.

Fiction--Authorship.

Fiction.

Genre:

Interviews.

History.

Sources.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Virginia paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1995.

Summary:

"In 1957 and 1958 William Faulkner was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia. During that time he held thirty-seven conferences and answered over two thousand questions on a wide range of concerns, from exegetic problems in his novels to the role of the writer in modern society. Almost every word was recorded on tape, and the result is the classic Faulkner in the University, originally published in 1959 and now available for the first time in a paperback edition." "The material collected here offers testimony to some fascinating exchanges between the author and his public and makes up one of the few sourcebooks available on Faulkner's personal views. As the writer himself commented, "These are questions answered without rehearsal or preparation, by a man old enough in the craft of the human heart to have learned that there are no definitive answers to anything, yet still young enough in spirit to believe that truth may still be found provided one seeks enough, tests and discards, and still tries again.""--Jacket.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0813916127

9780813916125

OCLC:

31287547