William Faulkner Help . . .
 

I'm taking a writing class this semester and so far I have a strong B. I know, kind of surprising as when I read my posts I shake my head and roll my eyes at my typos and errors. But, my academic writing is different.

Anyhow, I have a rough draft to write on one of the readings that we did. I did my reader's response comparing Faulkner to a painter. He truly "paints" with his descriptive words. In fact, it's almost humorous even when he is describing a gruesome scene. I want to further my response on Faulkner's use of adjectives, similes, and metaphors and linguistics.

Last night I searched and search and keep coming up somewhat empty handed. I did, however, find an article/essay - "An Examination of Southern Dialect as Seen in the Works of William Faulkner" - that I found interesting. But have no clue where to research some of this further in the sense of linguistics of the deep south (which this knowledge will help me in my anthropology class).

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions? A good book/reference? Website? (I didn't find anything on the Faulkner on the Web site).

I don't know much about linguistics and dialect of the deep south (Mississippi). Again, any ideas?

I don't know if this relates, but it's interesting:

http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~cclopper/nsp/index.html

Thanks! It looks like she (Clopper) has written other publications that I will check out. Also, one of her references is a sociolinguistic book that I am sure I can get at the school library. This background information will definitely help in creating my thesis statement.

Learn about Faulkner's own life, you'll get a lot of insight as to the kinds of language he grew up hearing around him.

I like galenet:
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Scribner/s1243

Faulkner is often credited with being "the father of stream of consciousness" writing; you might try that as a search term.

My personal favorite database is ERIC:
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ With this one, your best bet is to use dynamic search phrases using Boolean operators.

If you use your university library's portal you'll discover dozens of academic databases that will provide you with very distinct articles about nearly every possible aspect of your pursuit. Be careful, some of them charge $hundreds per hour, so have your search statements prepared in advance so you can spend only one or two minutes using them!!!

I daresay you already know this but incase you don't, one way to broaden your search is to Google InterNational Search Engines, or English or Australian etc..

Here are some sites I found about William Faulkner.

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...G=Search&meta=

Thanks AMN! I like Eric too! I am definitely bookmarking that one.

Koala, Thanks to you as well. I went to the link and will check them out.

I do have a couple of weeks to get this done. I keep trying to find somewhere in this brain of mine everything I learned about him in hs. In my sophomore honors English class we learned about him, his writings, etc. But that was a long time ago and I'm only recalling little things.:o Little bits and pieces mixed in with the social things going on. LOL

Faulkner's Sound and the Fury - the title is from Shakespeare's King Lear. Someone (???) has a quote "The sound and the fury, signifying nothing". OK, that's all my Faulkner related knowledge.

good ol wikki may help


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_American_English

Do NOt ever use Wiki as a source for a college paper:)!

Kicker - LOL. Sounds just like me trying to dig way back in time. I do remember the teacher talking about Faulkner as well as many other American authors. As a teen what was more important was the fun I had talking in class with Kim Hodges who sat next to me. LOL So things are a little spotty in my memory.

Dej - Thanks for the suggestion. We aren't allowed to use Wiki as it is not a credible source. In fact, we had to watch a video (via youtube) on it and take a quiz. I can't use Wiki in my anthropology class either. Even at the high school level, they don't allow the students to use it as a resource. But, I read through your link and got some ideas and that was helpful.

I did find a book, "A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner" that I am going to go get at the school library. Google books shows a little preview and I found lots of useful info. In fact, in one section it discussed "Peter" and when I read it, the theme was similar to the Reader Response I submitted. This will be my 3rd resource that I can use to site from. I read over the assignment last night and I have to use one of the sources listed in our reading. For "A Rose for Emily" the web site listed is the "Faulkner on the Web." I am going to have to go back to that site and do more research.