The Portable Faulkner
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The Portable Faulkner is a 1946 anthology edited by Malcolm Cowley that presents a curated selection of William Faulkner’s fiction, helping to establish his reputation and highlight the interconnected world of his Yoknapatawpha County stories.
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| The Portable Faulkner canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: The Portable Faulkner Context triple: [Yoknapatawpha County, mapPublishedIn, The Portable Faulkner]
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A.
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a celebrated anthology that brings together many of Faulkner’s most important short stories, showcasing his complex narrative style and exploration of the American South.
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B.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury is a landmark modernist novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its experimental narrative structure and stream-of-consciousness portrayal of the declining Compson family in the American South.
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C.
Suttree
Suttree is a darkly comic, richly detailed novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the drifting life of Cornelius Suttree along the Tennessee River in 1950s Knoxville.
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D.
A Letter from the South
"A Letter from the South" is an essay by James Baldwin that reflects on race, history, and the Black experience in the American South.
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E.
The Ballad of the Sad Café
The Ballad of the Sad Café is a Southern Gothic novella by Carson McCullers that explores themes of unrequited love, isolation, and the complexities of human relationships in a small Georgia mill town.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Portable Faulkner Target entity description: The Portable Faulkner is a 1946 anthology edited by Malcolm Cowley that presents a curated selection of William Faulkner’s fiction, helping to establish his reputation and highlight the interconnected world of his Yoknapatawpha County stories.
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A.
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a celebrated anthology that brings together many of Faulkner’s most important short stories, showcasing his complex narrative style and exploration of the American South.
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B.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury is a landmark modernist novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its experimental narrative structure and stream-of-consciousness portrayal of the declining Compson family in the American South.
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C.
Suttree
Suttree is a darkly comic, richly detailed novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the drifting life of Cornelius Suttree along the Tennessee River in 1950s Knoxville.
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D.
A Letter from the South
"A Letter from the South" is an essay by James Baldwin that reflects on race, history, and the Black experience in the American South.
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E.
The Ballad of the Sad Café
The Ballad of the Sad Café is a Southern Gothic novella by Carson McCullers that explores themes of unrequited love, isolation, and the complexities of human relationships in a small Georgia mill town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthology
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book ⓘ short story collection ⓘ |
| aimedTo |
highlightInterconnectedNatureOfFaulknersFiction
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presentFaulknersFictionInChronologicalOrderOfYoknapatawphaHistory ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| authorOfIncludedWorks | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| containsWorksBy | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| containsWorksSetIn | Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| contributedTo | revivalOfWilliamFaulknersReputation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| editor | Malcolm Cowley ⓘ |
| editorBirthName | Malcolm Cowley ⓘ |
| editorialApproach |
curatedSelection
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reorderedTextsToClarifyYoknapatawphaChronology ⓘ |
| editorNationality | American ⓘ |
| editorWroteIntroduction | Malcolm Cowley ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
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modernist literature ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalStatus | importantFaulknerAnthology ⓘ |
| hasFormat | print ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
FaulknerScholarship
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collegeTeachingOfFaulkner ⓘ |
| includesWork |
Absalom, Absalom!
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As I Lay Dying ⓘ Go Down, Moses ⓘ Light in August ⓘ Sanctuary ⓘ The Sound and the Fury ⓘ shortStoriesByWilliamFaulkner ⓘ |
| influenced | criticalReceptionOfWilliamFaulkner ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
generalReaders
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literaryCritics ⓘ studentsOfAmericanLiterature ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | book ⓘ |
| notableFor |
makingFaulknersWorkMoreAccessibleToGeneralReaders
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shapingMid20thCenturyUnderstandingOfFaulkner ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Portable Library ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| publisher |
The Viking Press
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surface form:
Viking Press
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| subject |
AmericanSouth
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familyAndMemory ⓘ raceAndHistoryInTheAmericanSouth ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfReception | mid20thCentury ⓘ |
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Subject: The Portable Faulkner Description of subject: The Portable Faulkner is a 1946 anthology edited by Malcolm Cowley that presents a curated selection of William Faulkner’s fiction, helping to establish his reputation and highlight the interconnected world of his Yoknapatawpha County stories.
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