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Barn Burning
William Faulkner's story "BARN BURNING"
"Barn Burning": Annotated Bibliography
Brown, Calvin S. (1962). Faulkner's geography and topography. PMLA, 77 (5):
Retrieved: http://www.jstor.org/stable/460414
Topography and spacial relations have a uniquely important role in William Faulkner's literary works. Faulkner's works are often interpreted as literal depictions of his life growing up in Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner's stories such as "Barn Burning" are located in the American South and derive much of their character and atmosphere from the social dynamics of that region. "Barn Burning" could not take place anywhere else but the South, given the importance of southern mores in the plot and motivation of the story. Space within Faulkner's novels is also important,...
(1962). The "normality" of Snopesism: Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, 3 (1): 25-34 Retrieved:
URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1207378
This article discusses what the authors call the 'normality' of Snopesism, the code of conduct observed by Abner Snopes. "The evils revealed in the activities of the Snopeses are learned from the society out of which they grow" (Gold & Fox 1962: 26). Snopes is not an extraordinarily evil man because of his actions of barn burning; rather he is extremely commonplace because of the narrow-minded cruelties he undertakes. Snopes is part of a racist Southern society that has historically…
bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, May 7, 1999. Transformations, 12(2), 41-
48,109. Retrieved: http://search.proquest.com/docview/220357713?accountid=10901
This essay describes the experience of teaching Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" to students in China. "Barn Burning" describes the moral conflict felt by Abner Snopes, "a poor sharecropper who takes out his frustrations against the post-Civil War aristocracy by setting fires to barns" (Speirs 2001). Abner's son Sarty is torn between filial loyalty and loyalty to higher moral ideals. Many members of the new, rising Chinese generation feel a similar conflict between choosing between the morality of their parents in the spirit of Confucianism and their need to create a new identity. During the author's teaching of the short story, the Chinese embassy was bombed, which further provoked questions of when revenge should be undertaken. Faulkner presents class rage, however justified, as creating an inevitable cycle of violence that must be ended by the new generation.
Faulkner's "Barn Burning" Annotated Bibliography William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" Ford discusses the narrative aging of the main character in "Barn Burning." Through the eyes of the brutalized child there is no real sense of his father's (Abner's) motivations and/or the son's characteristic numbness created by the self-preservation associated with the tragedy of abuse a cultural and personal phenomena. The work details by describing several passages in the work, and especially interactions
Faulkner and Joyce William Faulkner famously said that "The human heart in conflict with itself" is the only topic worth writing about. Several short stories have proven this quote to be true. The narrators of both William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" and James Joyce's "Araby" are young men who are facing their first moments where childhood innocence and the adult world are coming into conflict. Both boys, for the text makes it
Barn Burning William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" is a story of family loyalty verses social morality. The protagonist of Faulkner's story is a young boy named Sartoris Snopes, the son of a dirt-poor share-cropper who has spent the better part of his life moving from town to town and from shack to shack. Set in the Deep South, "Barn Burning" is essentially a coming of age tale amid a violent family life
Barn Burning" by William Faulkner and "Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?" By Joyce Carol Oates are coming of age stories that detail the lives of their adolescent protagonists. These stories reveal the strained relationships that adolescents have with their parents at the juncture of critical identity formation. Both Faulkner and Oates exhibit what Zender calls a "self-consciously ambiguous approach to motive" that creates "a pleasing sense
William Faulkner uses opposition and tension to great effect within his story, "Barn Burning." He explores oppositions like Sarty's blood ties to his father vs. The pull of moral imperative, and decent behaviour to society in general. These oppositions help to create the tension and mood in the story, and serve as a literary device to illustrate his themes of the initiation of the adolescent into adult life, and the
William Faulkner A renowned novelist, William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897 (The Columbia Encyclopedia). Eight years prior to his birth, his grandfather was killed by an ex-partner in business. William Faulkner was the eldest of the siblings. During his school life, William loved sports and was a quarterback in the football team and his passion for writing poetry existed since he was only 13 years old.