by George Washington Cable Published in 1890 A Novel about a flatboat ride from New Orleans in 1795 Map of New Orleans in 1726 – Image Credit: Wikimedia A Ride on a Flatboat on the Mississippi River and into the Louisiana Bayous in 1795 – Described by George Washington Cable Although George Washington Cable wrote…
Category: Southern Literature
Analysis of William Faulkner’s Short Story: A Rose for Emily
Before we talk about the story, “A Rose for Emily,” let’s talk about William Faulkner and his Yoknapatawpha County for a moment: “William Faulkner…(born September 25, 1897, New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.—died July 6, 1962, Byhalia, Mississippi), [was an] American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. As the eldest…
Where Is William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County?
In Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emilly,” Miss Emily lived in Jefferson, Mississippi, which is a fictitious town in the fictitious county of “…Yoknapatawpha County (/jɒknəpəˈtɔːfə/). “Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford (which…
The House in Faulkner’s Story “A Rose for Emily”
The House in Faulkner’s Short Story “A Rose for Emily.” “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, [1870s] set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had…