In a series of essays written especially for this volume, five distinguished critics offer a range of approaches, discussing the novel in terms of its composition and position in Faulkner's career, its structure and narrative techniques, and its relation to the religious, racial, and sexual assumptions of the society it represents.
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An analysis of structure and narrative is supplemented by interpretations of the religious, racial and sexual implications of William Faulkner's controversial depiction of the American South.
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WHEN his seventh novel, Light in August, was published in October 1932, William Faulkner was just thirty-five years old and at the peak of his creative powers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fictive present, narrative expectations, class conferences Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joe Christmas, William Faulkner, Lena Grove, New York, Joanna Burden, Byron Bunch, Random House, Lay Dying, University of Virginia, Miss Burden, Percy Grimm, Cleanth Brooks, Selected Letters, Critical Heritage, Nobel Prize, Gail Hightower, Gavin Stevens, Lucas Burch, Doc Hines, Bleak House, Dry September, Joseph Blotner, New Haven, The Yoknapatawpha Country, Yale University Press New!
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WHEN his seventh novel, Light in August, was published in October 1932, William Faulkner was just thirty-five years old and at the peak of his creative powers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fictive present, narrative expectations, class conferences Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joe Christmas, William Faulkner, Lena Grove, New York, Joanna Burden, Byron Bunch, Random House, Lay Dying, University of Virginia, Miss Burden, Percy Grimm, Cleanth Brooks, Selected Letters, Critical Heritage, Nobel Prize, Gail Hightower, Gavin Stevens, Lucas Burch, Doc Hines, Bleak House, Dry September, Joseph Blotner, New Haven, The Yoknapatawpha Country, Yale University Press New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Light in August (The Corrected Text) by William Faulkner on 93 pages
- Light in August (Modern Library) by William Faulkner on 93 pages
- The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner on 26 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 26 pages
- Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text by William Faulkner on 12 pages
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- Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination by Peter Lurie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Teaching Faulkner: Approaches and Methods (Contributions to the Study of American Literature) by Stephen Hahn on page 95, and page 103
- The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Philip M. Weinstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance by Ellen W. Goellner on page 199
- Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Philip M. Weinstein in Back Matter
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