This collection of essays explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory and writing in accessible English, ten major Faulkner scholars examine the enduring whole of Faulkner's work and bring into focus the broader cultural contexts that lent resonance to his work. The collection will be particularly useful to the student seeking a critical introduction to Faulkner, while also serving the dedicated scholar interested in recent trends in Faulkner criticism.
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Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory and writing in accessible English, ten major scholars examine the enduring whole of Faulkner's work. They explore his relation to 20th-century mass culture, European and Latin American fiction, issues of gender difference, and U.S. race relations.
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When I think Faulkner, I'm usually reading, writing, or teaching (and learning) about his work, or performing some combination of these three activities, and perhaps it is these activities that suggest the three things I think of Faulkner's work as doing and enabling others to do, the things I think literature and other cultural work can do at its best. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dynastic father, grim sire, discerning reading, black butler, black migration, racial etiquette, racialized identity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joe Christmas, Thomas Sutpen, Charles Bon, Lay Dying, World War, Barton Fink, Civil War, Delta Autumn, Gavin Stevens, Quentin Compson, Byron Bunch, Gualinto Gómez, New South, Sam Fathers, Samuel Worsham Beauchamp, United States, Great Migration, Joanna Burden, Addie Bundren, Doc Hines, General Compson, George Washington Gómez, Lena Grove, Old South, The Bear New!
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When I think Faulkner, I'm usually reading, writing, or teaching (and learning) about his work, or performing some combination of these three activities, and perhaps it is these activities that suggest the three things I think of Faulkner's work as doing and enabling others to do, the things I think literature and other cultural work can do at its best. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dynastic father, grim sire, discerning reading, black butler, black migration, racial etiquette, racialized identity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joe Christmas, Thomas Sutpen, Charles Bon, Lay Dying, World War, Barton Fink, Civil War, Delta Autumn, Gavin Stevens, Quentin Compson, Byron Bunch, Gualinto Gómez, New South, Sam Fathers, Samuel Worsham Beauchamp, United States, Great Migration, Joanna Burden, Addie Bundren, Doc Hines, General Compson, George Washington Gómez, Lena Grove, Old South, The Bear New!
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- Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text by William Faulkner on 41 pages
- The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner on 39 pages
- The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix (Modern Library of the World's Best Books) by William Faulkner on 39 pages
- Light in August (The Corrected Text) by William Faulkner on 31 pages
- The Wild Palms by William Faulkner on 7 pages
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- What Else But Love? by Philip M. Weinstein on 5 pages
- Faulkner and Postmodernism (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series) by John N. Duvall on page 78, page 165, and Back Matter
- Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination by Peter Lurie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Creating Yoknapatawpha: Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction (Studies in Major Literary Authors) by Owen Robinson in Back Matter, and Index
- Teaching Faulkner: Approaches and Methods (Contributions to the Study of American Literature) by Stephen Hahn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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