Strange Attractions
Sibling Love Triangles in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5773648 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Michael Walter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 484-506 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Literature Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4132 • E-ISSN: 1528-4212 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cls.2007.0084 |
| OpenAlex | W2074945319 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Before he wrote The Sound and the Fury, the young William Faulkner was trying to be the Honore de Balzac of the South. He had a plan to reproduce Balzac's fictional world in which characters and settings reappeared from story to story, and he was making works that closely emulated Balzac's style. Jacques Pothier describes how Faulkner, under the close hand of his literary mentor Phil Stone, conceived his first Yoknapatawpha fictions
American and British Literature Analysis · German Literature and Culture Studies · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |