A Companion to William Faulkner

This comprehensive Companion to William Faulkner reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies. Explores the contexts, criticism, genres and interpretations of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American novelist. Comprises original essays written by leading scholars. Guides readers through the plethora of critical approaches to Faulkner over the past few decades. Exemplifies current Faulkner scholarship, as well as critically reflecting on previous interpretations.

Richard C. Moreland is Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies in English, and former Director of Graduate Studies in English at Louisiana State University. His previous publications include Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting (1990) and Learning from Difference: Teaching Morrison, Twain, Ellison, and Eliot (1999).

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Contexts
A Difficult Economy: Faulkner and the Poetics of Plantation Labor
"We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves": Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain
A Loving Gentleman and the Corncob Man: Faulkner, Gender, Sexuality, and The Reivers
"C'est Vraiment D?gueulasse": Meaning and Ending in A bout de souffle and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
The Synthesis of Marx and Freud in Recent Faulkner Criticism
Faulkner's Lives
Questions
Reflections on Language and Narrative
Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner
"Why Are You So Black?" Faulkner's Whiteface Minstrels, Primitivism, and Perversion
Shifting Sands: The Myth of Class Mobility
Faulkner's Families
Changing the Subject of Place in Faulkner
The State
Violence in Faulkner's Major Novels
An Impossible Resignation: William Faulkner's Post-Colonial Imagination
Religion: Desire and Ideology
Cinematic Fascination in Light in August
Faulkner's Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great Divide
Genres and Forms
Faulkner's Genre Experiments
"Make It New": Faulkner and Modernism
Faulkner's Versions of Pastoral, Gothic, and the Sublime
Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction
William Faulkner's Short Stories
Faulkner's Non-Fiction
Faulkner's Texts
Sample Readings
"By It I Would Stand or Fall": Life and Death in As I Lay Dying
Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystification in Absalom, Absalom!
"The Cradle of Your Nativity": Codes of Class Culture and Southern Desire in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy
After Faulkner
"He Doth Bestride the Narrow World Like a Colossus": Faulkner's Critical Reception
Faulkner, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Influence, Politics, and Academic Disciplines
Faulkner's Continuance
Index
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A Companion to William Faulkner

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