William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1931

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story

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“A Rose for Emily” is William Faulkner’s most frequently anthologized and, therefore, best-known short story. It is also the first short story he published in a national magazine (

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, 30 April 1930). It was written during a four-year period (1927-1931) of incredible productivity during which Faulkner published five novels, found his mature voice in

The Sound and the Fury

, and also wrote and was regularly trying to place nearly other thirty stories in national magazines. So, “A Rose for Emily”, even though it was his first published short story, is not the work of a novice, but is, rather, a highly sophisticated work, written by Faulkner at the height of his powers, in which he combines elements from such popular genres as the macabre, Southern gothic, and the detective story…

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Citation: Meats, Stephen E.. "A Rose for Emily". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 January 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34876, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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