Popular Faulkner: The Development of “The National Voice” Across The Bayard and Ringo Stories

January, William

Popular Faulkner: The Development of “The National Voice” Across The Bayard and Ringo Stories

dc.contributor.advisor	Zeigler, James
dc.contributor.author	January, William
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Garofalo, Daniela
dc.contributor.committeeMember	McDonald, William
dc.date.accessioned	2018-05-10T18:52:34Z
dc.date.available	2018-05-10T18:52:34Z
dc.date.issued	2018-05-11
dc.date.manuscript	2018-05
dc.description.abstract	This thesis seeks to demonstrate the development of a 'popular' Faulkner that emerges through the composition history of his 1938 novel 'The Unvanquished.' Using Michael Warner's concept of "publics," Faulkner's Bayard-Ringo stories, in their writing and rewriting for George Horace Lorimer and 'The Saturday Evening Post,' can be read as the first Yoknapatawpha county stories to demonstrate a heightened contemporary political relevancy by allegorizing and criticizing Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Examining the steps taken to transform the magazine stories into a much longer, proper novel, we can see 'The Unvanquished' not as a derivative work hastily composed for profit, but a key bridge between the insular high-modernist novels of Faulkner's early career and the more politically direct novels that appear after the Second World War.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11244/299840
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	William Faulkner	en_US
dc.subject	The Unvanquished	en_US
dc.subject	The Saturday Evening Post	en_US
dc.subject	Short Stories	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Master of Arts	en_US
dc.title	Popular Faulkner: The Development of “The National Voice” Across The Bayard and Ringo Stories	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences::Department of English	en_US