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John Padgett

Debra Devi: Robert Johnson and the Myth of the Illiterate Bluesman - 0 views

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    agic practices drawn from African, Native American, and European sources. Many hoodoo practitioners can recite chapter-and-verse from European occult books like The Black Pullet, Secrets of the Psalms, and The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus.
John Padgett

The Southerner | Growing Up Southern - 1 views

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    Willie Morris - recounts story of meeting Robert Frost, who had some disparaging things to say about Morris's home state of Mississippi.
John Padgett

Faulkner at Virginia - 1 views

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    Audio of Faulkner's Q&A sessions at the University of Virginia, 1957-1958.
John Padgett

Writings of William Faulkner - C-SPAN Video Library - 2 views

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    Live from Rowan Oak, Faulkner's home in Oxford, Mississippi, Faulkner scholars Don Kartiganer and Thadious Davis talk about Faulkner's life, his novel "The Sound and the Fury," and take C-SPAN viewers' calls. This event was part of C-SPAN's "American Writers: A Journey Through History" series.
John Padgett

Absalom, Absalom! Electronic Initiative - 3 views

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    An interactive guide to William Faulkner's novel "Absalom, Absalom!" This site was created by Stephen Railton and Will Rourk at the University of Virginia.
John Padgett

Tomorrow (1972) - 3 views

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    A 1972 film based on the short story by William Faulkner, starring Robert Duvall. This film is often regarded as one of the most faithful adaptations of Faulkner's fiction on film. Available on YouTube (currently) in 12 parts. This link opens the "playlist" for the 12 parts of the film.
John Padgett

Southern Women Authors Project - 1 views

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    The Southern Women Authors Project, or SWAP, is "a gathering place for studying the lives and works of women writers of the American South," based at Louisiana State University.
John Padgett

Southern Spaces: An interdisciplinary journal about the regions, places, and cultures o... - 1 views

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    Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed online journal "exploring the real and imagined places of the American South and their connections with the wider world," based at Emory University
John Padgett

What was the most influential 20th-century Southern novel? - 1 views

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    A video debate between southern literary experts Noel Polk and Trudier Harris, on the SC-ETV program "Take on the South," produced in cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina. Aired originally on May 13, 2009.
John Padgett

The Sound and the Fury (1959) - complete film - 4 views

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    A loose 1959 film adaptation of "The Sound and the Fury," directed by Martin Ritt and starring Yul Brynner as Jason Compson, available (for now) on YouTube.
John Padgett

The Story of Temple Drake (1933) - 3 views

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    A 1933 film adaptation of Faulkner's "Sanctuary," available for viewing on YouTube.
John Padgett

William Faulkner at the University of Virginia - 2 views

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    A UVA alumnus reflects on William Faulkner's stint as the writer in residence at the University of Virginia in the late 1950s. Presented by the uvamagazine.
John Padgett

"As I Lay Dying" lecture by Robert Hamblin - for Oprah's Book Club - 2 views

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    Transcript of Faulkner scholar Robert Hamblin's lecture on William Faulkner's novel "As I Lay Dying," from 2005's "Summer of Faulkner" on Oprah's Book Club.
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