In this newest volume in Oxford's Lives and Legacies series, Carolyn Porter, a leading authority on William Faulkner, offers an insightful account of Faulkner's life and work, with special focus on the breathtaking twelve-year period when he wrote some of the finest novels in American literature. Porter ranges from Faulkner's childhood in Mississippi to his abortive career as a poet, his sojourn in New Orleans (where he met a sympathetic Sherwood Anderson and wrote his first novel Soldier's Pay), his short but strategically important stay in Paris, his "rescue" by Malcolm Crowley in the late 1940s, and his winning of the Nobel Prize. But the heart of the book illuminates the formal leap in Faulkner's creative vision beginning with The Sound and the Fury in 1929, which sold poorly but signaled the arrival of a major new literary talent. Indeed, from 1929 through 1942, he would produce, against formidable odds--physical, spiritual, and financial--some of the greatest fictional works of the twentieth century, including As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses. Porter shows how, during this remarkably sustained burst of creativity, Faulkner pursued an often feverish process of increasingly ambitious narrative experimentation, coupled with an equally ambitious thematic expansion, as he moved from a close-up study of the white nuclear family, both lower and upper class, to an epic vision of southern, American, and ultimately Western culture. Porter illuminates the importance of Faulkner's legacy not only for American literature, but also for world literature, and reveals how Faulkner lives on so powerfully, both in the works of his literary heirs and in the lives of readers today.

William Faulkner: Lives and Legacies (Lives and Legacies Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Porter, Carolyn

Arts & Literature

Oxford University Press

Seeing and Being: The Plight of the Participant Observer in Emerson, James, Adams, and Faulkner

Literature & Fiction

United States

Wesleyan University Press

History & Criticism

This book offers a closer examination of contemporary society's ineffectiveness with regards to relationships, including current child-rearing practices. Offered to the reader is a passage out of this current condition with reference to how we relate to ourselves, individually and collectively. This new account informs the reader that conflict is our teacher, not our adversary. Through conflict we can journey within to determine what aspect of ourselves is in need of expression. Instead of using conflict to our advantage for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other, we model and utilize methods of condemnation, judgment, demonization and avoidance of personal responsibility. This book offers hope---if we are willing to create new models. Experience humility instead of humiliation, self-empowerment instead of power and control over others. We can create models that teach us how to embody an internal sense of goodness instead of an internalized self-contempt. Create models that teach us how to look within and take responsibility for our feelings and behaviors instead of seeking to blame, judge and condemn either ourselves or another. Movement in this direction can take our society and its members towards the experience of personal sovereignty and empowerment, emotional and spiritual emancipation..The result is sure to produce relationships of mutual respect and interdependence with a proficiency to endure and strengthen through conflict. Throughout this book, and particularly in the final chapter, is a new model upon which to base the foundation of relationships, with self and others. In the words of the author; Let It Be Different Tomorrow!

Relationships: Shattering The Lies We Live By!, Solutions for Conflict and Prejudice

Self-Help

Leonard, Lorenzo D.

One-On-One Book Production and Marketing

Relationships

Puget Sound Press

Book by Chernozemsky, Vladimir, Porter, Carolyn

The Other Side of the Moon

Chernozemsky, Vladimir

Triumvirate Publications

A graphic designer’s search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man’s fate during World War II. Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the lettersthey were in Frenchbut she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II. As Carolyn grappled with designing the font, she decided to have one of Marcel’s letters translated. Reading it opened a portal to a different time, and what began as mere curiosity quickly became an obsession with finding out why the letter writer, Marcel Heuzé, had been in Berlin, how his letters came to be on sale in a store halfway around the world, and, most importantly, whether he ever returned to his beloved wife and daughters after the war. Marcel’s Letters is the incredible story of Carolyn’s increasingly desperate search to uncover the mystery of one man’s fate during WWII, seeking answers across Germany, France, and the United States. Simultaneously, she continues to work on what would become the acclaimed P22 Marcel font, immortalizing the man and his letters that waited almost seventy years to be reunited with his family.

Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Skyhorse

An IPPY Gold Medal Winner. Paris Book Festival Winner. Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award A graphic designer's search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man’s fate during World War II Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters—they were in French—but she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II. As Carolyn grappled with designing the font, she decided to have one of Marcel’s letters translated. Reading words of love combined with testimony of survival inside a labor camp transformed Carolyn's curiosity into an obsession to find out whether he ever returned to his beloved wife and daughters after the war. Marcel's Letters is the incredible story of Carolyn's increasingly desperate search to uncover the mystery of one man’s fate during WWII, seeking answers across Germany, France, and the United States. Simultaneously, she continues to work on what would become the acclaimed P22 Marcel font, immortalizing the man and his letters that waited almost seventy years to be reunited with his family.

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