William Faulkner - Troubled Literary Genius | Biographical Documentary

The novels of Nobel Prize winning author William Faulkner are consistently ranked amongst the greatest and most influential works in world literature. As a writer he constantly experimented with new structures and stylistic devices and he is justly famous for the range and depth of his characterization and portrayals of complex and uncomfortable social issues. He produced 19 novels, dozens of short stories, screenplays, collections of poetry and public letters… but he was an intensely private man, who rarely smiled and drank heavily. In this biographical documentary Prof Yorston explores why a man who achieved so much in his life appeared to be so troubled. Finding Out More There are several very good biographies that document the facts of his life, but the motivations, the whys and wherefores of his writing and of his personal story remain elusive. The most detailed is Joseph Blotner’s mammoth two volume work which was later slimmed down to a mere 800 pages. But I liked the accounts by Richard Gray and Jay Parini and I’ve added these to my Amazon Store Page. https://www.amazon.com/shop/professorgraemeyorston Academic References Goodwin, D. W. (1992). Alcohol as muse. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 46(3), 422-433. McCall, W. Vaughn. "Electroconvulsive therapy in the era of modern psychopharmacology." International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 4.3 (2001): 315-324. Martin, J. (1983). William Faulkner: Construction and reconstruction in biography and psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 3(2), 295-340. Copyright Disclaimer The primary purpose of this video is educational. I have tried to use material in the public domain or with Creative Commons Non-attribution licences wherever possible. Where attribution is required, I have listed this below. I believe that any copyright material used falls under the remit of Fair Use, but if any content owners would like to dispute this, I will not hesitate to immediately remove that content. It is not my intention to infringe on content ownership in any way. If you happen to find your art or images in the video, please let me know and I will be glad to credit you. Images Wikimedia Commons Internet Archive The Wellcome Collection University of Mississippi Library of Congress Music Footprints In The Snow, performed by Cliff Carlisle (vocals, steel guitar) and his brother Bill Carlisle (guitar) PD Blue Grass - created with Udio beta, prompt "riding the rails" bluegrass/blues/folk tags, intro, track extension and outro added. Pie Plant Pete - Hand Me Down My Walking Cane PD Livery Stable Blues - Original Dixieland Jass Band, recorded 1917. Porch Blues Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The Colonel Zaccharia Hickman CC0 Anything you can dream - The Whole Other CCO Blue Creek Trail -Dan Lebowitz CC0 Coming Home - Dan Lebowitz CC0 One Down Dog - Wes Hutchinson CC0 Plantation by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Last Train to Mars - Dan Lebowiitz CC0 Cooper Cannell - Amazing Grace CC0 Forest Lullaby - Asher Fulero CCO Vespers on the Shore Mini Vandals CC0 Lobe - Mini Vandals CC0 Sweetly my heart - Asher Fulero CC0 No 2 Remembering Her - Esther Abrami CC0 Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Le Bananier Public domain City Walk - John Pattucci CC0 YouTube On the Rocks -Track Tribe CCO Wish you’d never left - Track Tribe CC0 The Mood Drops - Nathan Moore CC0 Blue Mood - Robert Munzinger CC0 Gridlock - John Pattucci CC0 Jane Street - Track Tribe CC0 Black Terrier Blues CC0 Tacklebox Blues CC0 Hon Kyoku Doung Maxwell/Zac Zinger CC0 Calm Cam -Track Tribe CC0 George Gershwin: 3 Preludes for Clarinet and Piano II. Clarinet: Byeon Gyu-ri, Piano: Kim Hwa-jeong CCAttribution PeriTune Café Musette CC3.0 Video edited by Manavi Sakunika and produced by Graeme Yorston and Tom Yorston