William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury met with only limited success when published in 1929, probably due to its fragmented, non-chronological structure. Since, however, it has become one of the most popular of Faulkner's novels, serving as a litmus paper upon which critical approaches have tested themselves. In the introduction to this volume Noel Polk traces the critical responses to the novel from the time of its publication to the present day. The essays that follow present contemporary reassessments of The Sound and the Fury from a variety of critical perspectives. Dawn Trouard offers us the women of The Sound and the Fury, reading against the grain of the predominant critical tradition that sees the women through the lens of masculine cultural biases. Donald M. Kartiganer comes to terms with the ways in which the novel simultaneously attracts readers and resists readings. Richard Godden discusses the relationship between incest and miscegenation. Noel Polk examines closely the way Faulkner experiments with language.
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"Not only do these essays provide us with terrific readings of Faulkner's great novel, but they also allow us to peer into the sometimes murky depths of current theory and practice....[A]s interesting for the critical desires they express as for their extraordinary readings of The Sound and the Fury." James M. Mellard, Mississippi Quarterly
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While it met with only limited success when published in 1929, this novel has since become one of the most popular of Faulkner's works. This study includes critical responses from the time of its publication to the present day as well as contemporary reassessments from a variety of critical perspectives.
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New York, William Faulkner, Random House, Caroline Compson, Dalton Ames, Miss Quentin, Melissa Meek, Modem Library, Compson Appendix, French Lick, Herbert Head, Quentin Compson, Joseph Blotner, The Most Splendid Failure, Uncle Maury, André Bleikasten, Caddy Compson, Editorial Handbook, Fiction's Inexhaustible Voice, Luce Irigaray, Carvel Collins, Cornell University Press, Frank Kermode, Gerald Bland, Horace Benbow New!
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When I began it I had no plan at all. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
most splendid failure, muddy drawers, eye dialect, masculine imaginary, young marster, loud world, corrected text Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, William Faulkner, Random House, Caroline Compson, Dalton Ames, Miss Quentin, Melissa Meek, Modem Library, Compson Appendix, French Lick, Herbert Head, Quentin Compson, Joseph Blotner, The Most Splendid Failure, Uncle Maury, André Bleikasten, Caddy Compson, Editorial Handbook, Fiction's Inexhaustible Voice, Luce Irigaray, Carvel Collins, Cornell University Press, Frank Kermode, Gerald Bland, Horace Benbow New!
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- The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix (Modern Library of the World's Best Books) by William Faulkner on 65 pages
- The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner on 64 pages
- William Faulkner : Novels 1930-1935 : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (Library of America) by William Faulkner on 12 pages
- Faulkner in the University, Introduction by Douglas Day by Frederick L. Gwynn on 8 pages
- United States Authors Series: William Faulkner, Rev. Ed. (Twayne's United States Authors) by Frederick J. Hoffman on 5 pages
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- Doing Science + Culture by Roddey Reid on page 196
- Doing Science + Culture by Roddey Reid on page 196
- Faulkner and the Ecology of the South (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series) by Joseph R. Urgo on page 45
- Faulkner And the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, And Cultural Politics by Ted Atkinson in Back Matter
- The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures by Jeff Karem in Back Matter
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