Aviation lore in Faulkner / by Robert Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Robert L. (Robert Ligon), 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aeronautics in literature.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Knowledge--Technology.

Faulkner, William.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Language--Glossaries, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

William Faulkner was an aviation cadet in Canada in the closing days of WW I. He later owned his own airplane, and even put on a few air shows. When he wrote of flying, as he often did, it was with a great deal of expertise but little concern for the edification of his readers. The result is that many of the five hundred or so passages dealing with aviation in his works are all but incomprehensible to the non-pilot. This work elucidates all the aeronautical references in Faulkner's fiction and verse which might prove troublesome to the general reader. This monograph contains three main section

Contents:

AVIATIONLORE IN FAULKNER; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; FOREWORD; PREFACE; Table of contents; AN INTRODUCTION TO FLIGHT; 1. ELEMENTARY AERODYNAMICS; 2. FUNCTION OF THE CONTROLS; 3. BASIC FLIGHT MANOEUVRES; 4. AEROBATIC MANOEUVRES; 5. AIRFRAMES; 6. ENGINES; FAULKNER'S FLYING CAREER: A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; THE FIRST WAR; A NOTE ON THE BRITISH AND GERMAN AIR SERVICES DURING THE FIRSTWORLD WAR; 1. THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS/ROYAL AIR FORCE; 2. DEUTSCHELUFTSTREITKRÄFTE; A NOTE ON THE SOPWITH CAMEL

""LANDING IN LUCK,"" William Faulkner: Early Prose and Poetry (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1962, 42-50).A GREEN BOUGH (New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1933).; XVIII; SOLDIERS' PAY (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926).; ""THRIFT,"" Uncollected Stories (New York: Random House, 1973, 382-398).; ""AD ASTRA,""CollectedStories (New York: Random House, n.d., 407-429).; ""ALL THE DEAD PILOTS,"" Collected Stories (New York: Random House, n.d., 511-531).; ""TURNABOUT,"" Collected Stories (New York: Random House, n.d., 475-509).

""THE LEG,"" Collected Stories (New York: Random House, n.d., 824-842).""WITH CAUTION AND DISPATCH,"" Uncollected Stories (New York: Random House,1973, 642-664).; A FABLE (New York: Random House, 1954).; THE LOST GENERATION; BARNSTORMERS AND AIR RACERS; ""HONOR,""CollectedStories (New York: Random House, n.d., 551-564).; ""DEATH DRAG,"" Collected Stories (New York: Random House, n.d., 185-205).; PYLON(New York: Random House, 1935).; ""DOCTOR MARTINO,"" Collected Stories (New York: Random House, n.d., 565-585).; ""UNCLE WILLY,""CollectedStories (New York: Random House, n.d., 225-247).

THE SECOND WAR""KNIGHT'S GAMBIT,"" Knight's Gambit (New York: Random House, 1949, 135-246).; ""SHALL NOT PERISH,"" Collected Stories (New York: Random House, n.d., 101-115).; THE MANSION (New York: Random House, 1959).; SECONDARY SOURCES CITED

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-42415-0

9786613424150

90-272-7448-7

OCLC:

773566943