{"id":17009,"date":"2010-09-25T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=17009"},"modified":"2010-09-25T00:00:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T04:00:23","slug":"william-faulkner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/09\/25\/william-faulkner\/","title":{"rendered":"William Faulkner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fxM0C7zjoAc<\/p>\n<p><em>Faulkner&#8217;s Nobel Prize speech.\u00a0 (Transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/speeches\/faulkner.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Faulkner\" target=\"_blank\">William Faulkner<\/a>&#8216;s birthday (1897-1962).<\/p>\n<p>Frye in &#8220;Tradition and Change in the Theory of Criticism&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[B]ecause literature is born of a specific culture and a specific locale, most great literature is intensely localized.\u00a0 I know of no great literature written about an empire, with the very dubious exception of Virgil&#8217;s <em>Aeneid<\/em>.\u00a0 William Faulkner, for example, is a great writer today not because he is a citizen of a great power or speaks one of the world&#8217;s major languages (although those factors are undoubtedly important for his reputation), but because he deals with a provincial and decaying civilization in Mississippi which most even of his fellow Americans know very little about.\u00a0 The writer has two centres of gravity: one in his own time and audience; the other in our time and in us.\u00a0 It is a mysterious but primary fact of literature that a poet remote from us in space and time and culture can still communicate his central vision to us, though we may admire him for reasons quite unintelligible to him or his age.\u00a0 Literature survives only by virtue of what is communicable across these barriers of culture.\u00a0 (<em>CW<\/em> 10, 250)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fxM0C7zjoAc Faulkner&#8217;s Nobel Prize speech.\u00a0 (Transcript here.) 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Frye in &#8220;Tradition and Change in the Theory of Criticism&#8221;: [B]ecause literature is born of a specific culture and a specific locale, most great literature is intensely localized.\u00a0 I know of no great literature written about an empire, with the very dubious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-birthdays"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>William Faulkner - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/09\/25\/william-faulkner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"William Faulkner - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fxM0C7zjoAc Faulkner&#8217;s Nobel Prize speech.\u00a0 (Transcript here.) 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