The Widow of Windsor and the Spinster of Jefferson: A Possible Source for Faulkner's Emily Grierson

This article, published in The Faulkner Journal, proposes that William Faulkner’s characterization of Emily Grierson in his famous short story “A Rose for Emily” may have been influenced by earlier literary figures, particularly the “widow of Windsor” — a symbolic figure representing traditional female roles of upper social status. The author, Gary L. Kriewald, suggests that Faulkner might have drawn from classical or early modern sources of the Western literary canon when shaping Emily’s persona as a reclusive spinster in Jefferson, Mississippi, juxtaposing social expectations of femininity, tradition, and resistance to change. The article explores how these source figures may have informed Faulkner’s psychological and thematic construction of Emily’s character, connecting historical representations of female aristocracy with Southern Gothic motifs found in Faulkner’s narrative.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Kriewald, Gary L.

Đề mục:

Literary criticism

Nhà xuất bản:

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Fall 2003

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Nguồn gốc:

The Faulkner Journal, Volume 19, Number 1, Fall 2003, Pages 3-10

Liên kết:

ISSN 0884-2949

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The Widow of Windsor and the Spinster of Jefferson: A Possible Source for Faulkner's Emily Grierson

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