William Faulkner

Summary: "When William Faulkner received the nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, he completed an emergence from comparative obscurity that had begun three years before. Since then, Faulkner has achieved the status of a world author. his works have been painstakingly." --

Record details

ISBN: 9781429838283
ISBN: 1429838280
Physical Description: 298 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, A division of EBSCO Publishing, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Salem Press.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	About this Volume -- Kathryn Stelmach Artuso / CAREER, LIFE, AND INFLUENCE: On William Faulkner -- Kathryn Stelmach Artuso ; Biography of William Faulkner -- Lorie Watkins Fulton / CRITICAL CONTEXTS: "The Past Is Never Dead": Faulkner's Relationship to Southern Culture and History -- Karen M. Andrews ; William Faulkner's Critical Reception -- Taylor Hagood ; Reading Faulkner through Morrison -- Doreen Fowler ; Misreading "the Other" as a Strategy of Narrative Empathy in Go Down, Moses -- Patrick E. Horn / CRITICAL READINGS: Faulkner on Cannibal: Digesting Conrad -- Jacques Pothier ; A Furious Echo: Hearing Dublin's Joyce in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha -- Kieran Quinlan -- As I Lay Dying, The Time of Man, and the Modern Folk Novel -- Mark Lucas ; "Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do Right?" William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, and Jurisprudence -- Bryan Giemza ; "Far from Home across the Sea": William Faulkner, Randall Kenan, and Taboo Sexualities -- Mary Alice Kirkpatrick -- Faulkner and the Bible: A Haunted Voice -- Norman W. Jones ; "A Summer of Wistaria": Old Tales and Talking, Story, and History in Absalom, Absalom! -- Hans H. Skei ; Faulkner and Film: The 1950s Melodramas -- D. Matthew Ramsey ; Hurling Yourself against the Beautiful: Faulkner and Creativity -- Amy Weldon / RESOURCES: Chronology of William Faulkner's Life ; Works by William Faulkner ; Bibliography ; About the Editor ; Contributors ; Index.
Target Audience Note:	10-A.