The Poetess Laureate of Yoknapatawpha County: Rosa Coldfield and the Power of Convention

Rosa Coldfield—one of the primary narrators of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! —wrote hundreds of poems and published some number of them in Jefferson’s local newspaper during the Civil War. She was, the novel tells us, “the town’s and the county’s poetess laureate.” Yet the fact of the poems t...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Faulkner journal 2020-10, Vol.34 (2), p.117-137
1. Verfasser:	Roberts, Jess
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	American Civil War American literature Attention Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Literary characters Literary criticism Novels Poetry
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