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Faulkner’s Works

• POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS
• CRITICAL SUMMARY
• ART IMITATING LIFE
• FAULKNER’S WORKS IN HISTORY
• ADAPTATIONS OF FAULKNER’S WORKS
• PUBLIC RESPONSE
• NOTES

The Marble Faun. Boston: Four Seas, 1924. Reprinted with Faulkner’s second volume of poetry as The Marble Faun and A Green Bough. New York: Random House, 1965. Faulkner found a framing device to give the nineteen poems of his first collection coherence. Prologue and epilogue are spoken as interior monologue by a marble garden statue, a faun. The faun, a-half-human, half-animal creature from Roman mythology, is paradoxically static since it is a mute statue. Most of the poems are about the weather; personified trees and flowers provide the only drama. The conceits of this poetry collection return in...

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1. Introduction
2. About William Faulkner
3. Faulkner At Work
4. Faulkner’s Era
5. Faulkner’s Works
6. Faulkner On Faulkner
7. Study Questions
8. The Falkners Of Mississippi: A Supplementary Chronology
9. Bibliography
10. Copyright

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