A huge part of American Literature is the rise of Southern writers at the turn of the 20th century. Moreover, the portrayal of women in literature is cause for great concern and in-depth analysis. This week, as we wrap up the AA Lit unit, we are transitioning into Women's literature. As you read William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, take note of the contrasts between the portrayal of Southern white women compared to Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God. William Faulkner, a white man, writes a white female protagonist in "A Rose for Emily."
Flannery O'Connor, a white woman, also writes about females in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own."
Before we delve into these two stories, research these two American titans from the canon and post a paragraph on each. Take into consideration personal as well as professional information about their life's work. Be sure to write in your own words...do not copy and paste. Also, look at the biographical sketches in your book that precede each story. What do Faulkner and Flannery have in common with their rhetorical style as Southerners?
This blog post is due by the end of class today, Tuesday, 12.4.12.
William Faulkner was born and raised in Mississippi. He showed artistic qualities at a very young age by writing poetry and drawing. Suprisingly, Faulkner never graduated high school. He abandoned this and became a social outcast and a drunk. He had many jobs such as a pilot in training for the war and also a postmaster at Ole Miss. Despite the circumstances, Faulkner became one of the most famous writers of the 20th century, writing about the people and experiences in Mississippi.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O'Connor is most famously known for her short stories, although she did write 2 novels. She was born in Georgia and unfortunately died at the young age of 39 because of lupus. Despite her untimely death, she accomplished great things. Flannery has stated that she is a Christian writer and although not always striking, all of her works relate to Christ. She was awarded the Ford Foundation Grant along with 2 O. Henry Prizes.
I believe that Faulkner and Flannery have much in common because of their roots in the south, They seem to have been exposed to similar situations and hardships that are reflective in their successful writing.
-MADELINE LUTZ
After growing up in Mississippi, William Faulkner wrote about characters typical of historical growth in the South. He often wrote with a theme of racial prejudice. Faulkner won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O'Connor expressed her personal beliefs in her writing. She lived in Georgia and suffered from an illness that restricted her independence. This influenced her writing along with her Catholic religion. Flannery's themes usually involved human faults, like self-centeredness, and her characters were often suffering.
Faulkner and Flannery both discussed prejudice and racial tension in their works after spending their lives in the South. Their stories were usually based in the South and sometimes involved generation conflicts.
William Faulkner was born in Oxford, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. Faulkner pretty much worked with every type of writing. He wrote short stories, plays, novels, and some poetry as well. At one point in time he wrote for a newspaper in New Orleans. Faulkner’s writing was greatly influenced by the southern culture that he grew up in. Faulkner wrote using a lot of diction, which was known as his style.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O’Connor was born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia. Just as it did with William Faulkner, the southern culture affected the way she wrote. O’Connor wrote a couple novels but short stories were her specialty. Flannery O’Connor wrote in a “Southern Gothic” style. As Southerners, Flannery and Faulkner’s styles are similar. Both writers incorporate southern culture into their writing, such as the separation of social classes and racial intensity. They also tend to write using southern characters and locations.
-Aaron Love
William Faulkner wrote The Sound and the Fury in 1929 and Go, Down Moses in 1942. He also wrote many more novels and short stories. He won a Nobel Prize for his works. He grew up in Mississippi and that is where most of his stories are based in. He used the stream-of-consciousness in his works. Faulkner also wrote "A Rose for Emily" that we will be reading in class.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O'Connor grew up in Georgia in a Roman Catholic family. Most of her stories were based in the South and related to her religion. Wise Blood, The Violent Bear it Away, and Everything that Rises Must Converge are some of her most popular novels. She wrote "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" was one of her short stories that was written in 1955.
Both Faulkner and O'Connor wrote in a Southern Gothic style. They both also wrote novels and short stories. Both authors were popular writers during their time.
William Faulkner(1897-1962) grew up in Oxford, Mississippi and was heavily influenced by his southern lifestyle. William wokred hard as a young teenager trying to help his grandparents make a living. Faulkner joined the British Royal Air Force during World War 1. However, he always had a passion for writing deep down inside. Faulkner wrote for the New Orleans newspaper and traveled out of country to write. But he always went back home to Mississippi to write his novels. Some of his great novels/short stories are; The Sound and the Fury(1929), Sanctuary(1931), and Intruder in the Dust(1948).
ReplyDeleteFlannery O'Connor(1925-1964) grew up a southern girl in Savannah, Georgia. Flannery started at a young age becoming famous and being close to farm animals. Flannery had a pet chicken that could walk backwards and was a hit. Sadly, as a young teenager Flannery lost her father and was devstatign for her. Flannery strived to be strong no matter what came her way. Flannery went on to go to Georgia State University. Also Flannery got invited to live with Robert Fitzgerald and his wife, who inspired Flannery to become a writer. Highlights in Flannery's career were the novels Wise Blood(1952) and The Violent Bear it Away(1960).
-AJ Giles :)
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ReplyDeleteWilliam Faulkner was born in the year 1897 in Oxford, Mississippi. His imaginary world started in this town and is the setting for many of his novels. In 1918 he enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps and was stationed in Canada, never seeing any combat. He then moved to New Orleans and met the famous author Sherwood Anderson and helped Faulkner write his first novel. He later return to his home town and committed to his writing. This town was his backbone in his novels where he created the fictional place Yoknapatawpha County.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O’Connor was born in the year 1925 in Savannah Georgia. Her works show a theme of her intense commitment to her own beliefs in violent tales. She made readers come to the thought of human faults. Many people including critics thought that this was idiotic because of the way she used comic doom. She earned her undergraduate degree at Georgia State College for women and then attended the prestigious Writers’ Workshop at University of Iowa. She stuck to her religious beliefs her whole live. In 1950 she was diagnosed with lupus and slowly died of this disease and passed in 1964.
O’Connor and Faulkner’s rhetorical styles are very similar in the because of their use of fiction to portray important events in human life. They were also from the same region of the United State which may have helped them be more comparable.
After growing up in Mississippi, William Faulkner wrote about characters typical of historical growth in the South. He often wrote with a theme of racial prejudice. Faulkner won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O'Conner grew up in Georgia in a Catholic family. Her Stories were based in the South. Wise Blood and Violent Bear it Away are some of her popular novels.
Both writes use southern culture in their writing. Use alot of racial things in their books to represent the south. The setting of the books are usually in the south.
Nicholas McCullen
Mary Flannery O'Connor is an American writer and essayist. She was born on March, 25th 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. Throughout her career she wrote 2 novels, 32 short stories, and a number of reviews and commentaries. O'Connor lost her father to the disease lupus when she was young and she was later diagnosed with the same incurable illness. Prior to her death in 1964 O'Connor attended the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa). She originally went for journalism and ended up changing to the creative writing program.O'Connor was a devout Catholic and won many awards for her writings.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Faulkner is also an American writer. He was born on September 25th, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. He wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays during his career. Faulkner is said to have been a lifelong alcoholic because it helped his escape the pressures of everyday life. Faulkner died of a heart attack on July 6th, 1962. Before his death he attended the University of Mississippi and won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1949.
O'Connor and Faulkner writing styles are similar because they both use a type of Southern Gothic technique. Southern Gothic writings usually involve grotesque events and also ironic situations. Also both are valued and seen as two of the most influential writers to emerge and write about the American South.
William Faulkner:
ReplyDelete- He was born and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. He never finished high school but developed an interest in writing since young age. Most of his stories were based on an imaginary setting known as Yoknapatawpha County. He saw immense dramas acted out in his small rural town and jumbled time sequences, stream-of-consciousness narration, dialect, page-long sentences, and other difficult rhetorical strategies to show what he called “the human heart in conflict with itself.” He is considered the most innovative American writer of his time. Many of his novels and stories are about the struggle of southern families. Although he won the Noble Peace Prize on a novel in which he confronted the issue of racism.
Flannery O’Connor:
- Her works reflects her intense commitment to her personal beliefs. Many of her tragic tales she forces readers to confront such human faults as hypocrisy, insensitivity, self-centeredness, and prejudice. Many of her stories revolve around death and dark sense of humor. She was born in Savannah, Georgia. By being sick for a long period of time with lupus, her view of the world has been expressed differently and her works reflects that. As her novel Wise Blood, this was a story of a violent rivalry among members of a fictional religious sect in the South. Throughout most of her life, she lived through physical pain and the awareness that she would probably die young. In her stories, she often portrays those who are outcast and suffering. She was raised as a Catholic in the South, considered as a religious writer.
What they have in Common:
- What William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor have in common is that they have similar writing techniques know as the Southern Gothic Style. This style is one that uses the macabre, ironic events to examine the values of the American South. They are two of the most ironic writers. They are both of the most influential writers to write about the South. The main difference was that Faulkner wrote of the criticism of the social class structure while Flannery examined the theme of religion of the South.
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William Faulkner was born in 1897 and died in 1962. Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner is primarily known for his novels and short stories.Many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his life. Faulkner was one of the most important writers in Southern literature in the United States.To earn money during the 1930’s and 40’s, Faulkner wrote screenplays in Hollywood.Faulkner didn’t earn widespread public recognition until 1946.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O’Connor was born in 1925in Savannah, Georgia.She died in 1964. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied on regional settings and grotesque characters. O'Connor's writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith.Flannery earned her undergraduate degree from Georgia State College for Women.Flannery left home to attend the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Her first short story was called “Geranium”.
Faulkner and O’Connor are similar because they both grew up in the south and base their storys on their hardships, and use southern gothic style.Both are influential writers in the south.
--Paige Furrie
William Faulkner grew up in Oxford,Mississippi. He wrote books such as: Go Down Moses, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and A Rose for Emily which we will be reading in class; he also wrote several short stories. Most of his works were base on his home state Mississippi. He won a Nobel Prize and developed what is known as Steam of Consciousness.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O'Connor grew up in Georgia and she was raised in a strict Catholic family. She wrote two novels, Wise Blood and The violet Bear it Away. Most of her writing stemmed from her strong religious beliefs.
Faulkner & O'Connor both wrote novels as well as short stories and they both wrote in Southern Gothic Style
William Faulkner came from a southern family and grew up in Oxford, Mississippi where he studied at the University of Mississippi (there was no mention of high school). Faulkner tried to write a saga of his own and in doing so he created a line of characters that portray the typical decadence of the south. Faulkner is very artistic and began showing that while he was still very young. Faulkner also served for the Air Force in the First World War. Faulkner became one of the most famous writers in the 20th century, writing about experiences and people throughout the journey of his life.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O’Connor wrote a lot throughout her life, she accomplished not only two novels but 32 short stories, for which she is most famous. O’Connor lived short of a short life due to the fact that she died at the age of 39 when she got lupus. Writing with a Christian intent, she never boasted about her religion. O’Connor won two O’ Henry prizes and in 2009 she was awarded the "Best of the National Book Awards."
I believe these two writers are tied together through their backgrounds in the south. They experienced the same hardships and have seen and been through many of the same things.
-Marckee Zimmerman
William Faulkner was born and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I Faulkner enlisted in the British Royal Air Force. After the Air Force he studied at the University of Mississippi. After college he worked for a bookstore and a newspaper, he also took several trips out of the country and wrote a couple of scripts in Hollywood. The majority of Faulkner’s adult life was spent working on his novels and various short stories in Oxford. He won a Nobel Prize for Mississippi, and continued to write until his death in July 1962.
ReplyDeleteMary Flannery O’Connor grew up in Savannah, Georgia. She was an only child and in 1941 when she was only 15 years old her father died. This devastation might have led to her rather grotesque style of writing. She studied journalism at the University of Iowa. After she was diagnosed with the same fatal disease as her father she moved back to Georgia where she began to care for and love many different types of birds and wrote several essays about them. She wrote many of her stories during her time in Georgia and in 1964 she died at the age of 39. Most of her short stories were centered in the south and involve characters that resemble realistic human behaviors.
Their writing is similar in that most of their stories took place in the south and involved characters with personalities from the south. Also I believe that their style of writing and their voice is largely influenced by their experiences in life and growing up in the South. I also think that they both criticized certain aspects of life in their stories.
-Emily Berry
"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it." - William Faulkner
ReplyDeleteWilliam Faulkner was an author of several genres: fiction, poetry, and some screenwriting. He wrote in the early twentieth century, with his peers being people such as Harper Lee, Mark Twain, and Flannery O'Connor amongst others. His writings focused on the Southern America lifestyle, with one of his more famous -- and often used in his stories -- locations being his fictional county of Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner was relatively unknown until 1949, upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature.
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." - Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was another author whom focused on America's south-east. Her style of writing was considered to be that of a "Southern Gothic" style, a style fixated on life in the southern states of America, along with various grotesque themes and imagery. O'Connor lived in the same time period as Faulkner, dying a little over two years after him. O'Connor published two novels along with over thirty short-stories in her life, of which "Complete Stories" recently received the "Best of the National Book Awards" in 2009.
What the two have in common with their Southern rhetoric styles, I haven't a clue. I will not be able to discern that without sampling their works, something I haven't had the ability to do yet.
-Carlos Jimenez
Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia on 1925. In her works she forces readers to confront human’s faults as hypocrisy. Flannery O’Connor presents a dark sense of humor in her stories because they usually revolve around death. She went to the University of Iowa Writer’s workshop. Unfortunately she became ill with lupus in 1950. Due to her sickness throughout all of her life she would portray outcast or suffering in her fictional writing. A majority of her characters are somehow imperfect, be it: so physically challenged or mentally challenged. She shows a sense of sympathy in her writing. Being a very religious and faithful woman she presents powerful yet dubious moral and intellectual capabilities in the characters she uses.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Faulkner was born on 1897 and spent the majority of his early life in Oxford, Mississippi. William Faulkner never finished high school. He was a part of the British Royal Flying Corps. William Faulkner was the first to write a story from different point of views. He would explore different perspectives of people’s death. As I Lay Dying was written by him from fifteen different points of view. He uses many different speakers in his stories. He would write screenplays to earn money. He won the Nobel Prize following the publication of Intruder in the Dust (1948). His technique continues to inspire writers now-a-days.
Flannery and Faulkner have much in common. They are both from the South so they have learned many similar things. They also both used Southern Gothic Style in their writing. They would both usually write short stories.
-Ellizon Torres
William Faulkner was an American writer who wrote short storys, novels, a play, and many other works. He is most famous for his novels "A Rose For Emily" and "The Sound and the Fury." He has been awarded with both the Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer Prize. He spent majority of his life in Mississippi and attended the University of Mississippi and the University of Virginia. Faulkner was one of the most imortant writers in Southern literature.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O'Connor was also an American writer who was known for her multiple short stories and novels. Flannery lived in Georgia majority of her life and died when she was 39. Her writing reflects her Roman Catholic faith and answers questions that have to do with ethics and morals. She was an only child and attended the Georgia State College for Women in 1942.
Both writers wrote short stories and used Southern Gothic style of writing.
-Ana Mitchell
William Faulkner was an American writer born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897. He died in 1962, but he didn’t leave without being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He had many jobs such as a railroad financier, politician, solider, farmer, businessman, and lawyer. He was classified as the bestselling author thanks to The White Rose of Memphis. As a teenager he loved to draw, read and write poetry. He didn’t like school and he didn’t get a high school diploma. He was raised with an African American lady. His first published poem was in the school newspaper at the University of Mississippi. In Louisiana Faulkner was given an advice to write about the places and people of his childhood. He became famous for his southern speech. He talked about things other authors didn’t pay much attention to.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O’Conner was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1925. She is well known for two novels and her many short stories. She fits in the Southern Gothic genre. She died at the age of 39 a year after she was named the “red hot center” of the new elite by Esquire magazine. Her health wasn’t great, at age 25 she was diagnosed with some form of lupus. She was a one of a kind writer. Even until this day no one has been like she was. She was an important voice in American Literature.
What both of these authors have in common is where they come from.and wall the downfalls they have had in their life. William didnt finish school and O'Connor had health issues, but they became great people in history.
-Jennifer Orellana
William Faulkner was born in Mississippi in 1897. William attended the University of Mississippi, although he never finished high school. Faulkner is a Noble Prize winning novelist and short story writer, but is more known for his short stories.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O’Connor is also a well known short story writer. Flannery was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1925. Flannery attended the University of Iowa and studied writing. Flannery’s first published short story was “The Geranium.”
Faulkner and Flannery are both well known short story writers. The both talk about their experiences in their writing.
ERIN PICKENS
William Faulkner was born in 1897 in Mississippi and then attended the University of Mississippi. Faulkner won a noble peace prive for not only being a novelist but also a more commonly known short story writer. He wrote about South American lifestyles and is still inspiring authors today.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O'Conner was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1925 and attended the University of Iowa. She was a short story writer who focused on morals and ethics. O'Conner lived a short life dying at the young age of 39.
O'Conner and Faulkner were both short story writers who were rooted in the South.
William Faulkner was born in Oxford, Mississippi in 1897. He is famous for writing short stories, novels, and plays. Most of his short stories and novels are written about the history of the "old South". Faulkner most famous novel is " The Sound and Fury". He won a nobel prize, he is known for being a great novelist.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O'Conner was a American writer that was born in Gerogia in 1925.She wrote short stories and novels in a Southern Gothic style. Most of the stories she wrote were about examining moral and ethic principles, also resembled her Catholic faith. O'Connor died in 1964 at the age of 39.
William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor both wrote in the Southern Gothic style and wrote the short stories from the historical events of the South.
Tamara Suggs
Mary Flannery O'Connor was borrn March 25, 1925. She was an American writer, most famous for her 32 short stories and two novels, as well as many reviews and commentaries. Additionally, she was a very significant influence in American literature. Known for being a Southern writer, she often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied deeply on provincial settings and grotesque characters. Her writing imitate her own Roman Catholic faith, and more often than not analyzes questions of morality and ethics. She died August 3, 1964.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer who won the Nobel Prize from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a assortment of media as well as writing novels, short stories which he is primarily famous and commeneded for, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. Many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his life. Like Flannery, he was one of the most important writers in Southern literature in the United States, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, and Thomas Wolfe. He was moderately unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. A Fable and his last novel The Reivers, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. O’Connor is considered to be one of the greatest short story writers of the twentieth century. Her father died from lupus when she was a teenager. She first started off as a writer for school publications. O’Connor published her first short story in 1946 called “The Geranium.” After graduating in 1947 she spent some time in Yaddo, a Saratoga Springs, New York artists’ retreat. O’Connor died from lupus on August 3, 1964.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Faulkner was born in 1897. Faulkner grew up in Oxford, Mississippi with his southern family. He joined to Royal Air Forces during WWI, Canadian and then later the British. He traveled a little, but mainly worked on his short stories on a farm in Oxford. Faulkner also won a Nobel peace prize and later died in 1962. -Cullen Boyette