A Companion to William Faulkner

Copyright © 2007 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to William Faulkner

Editor(s): Richard C. Moreland

Published Online: 30 NOV 2007

Print ISBN: 9781405122245

Online ISBN: 9780470996881

DOI: 10.1002/9780470996881

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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.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xiv)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–4)

      Richard C. Moreland

  3. Part I: Contexts

    1. Chapter 1

      A Difficult Economy: Faulkner and the Poetics of Plantation Labor (pages 7–27)

      Richard Godden

    2. Chapter 2

      “We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves” (pages 28–45)

      Grace Elizabeth Hale and Robert Jackson

    3. Chapter 3

      A Loving Gentleman and the Corncob Man (pages 46–64)

      Anne Goodwyn Jones

    4. Chapter 4

      “C'est Vraiment Dégueulasse” (pages 65–84)

      Catherine Gunther Kodat

    5. Chapter 5

      The Synthesis of Marx and Freud in Recent Faulkner Criticism (pages 85–103)

      Michael Zeitlin

    6. Chapter 6

      Faulkner's Lives (pages 104–112)

      Jay Parini

  4. Part II: Questions

    1. Chapter 7

      Reflections on Language and Narrative (pages 115–132)

      Owen Robinson

    2. Chapter 8

      Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner (pages 133–147)

      Barbara Ladd

    3. Chapter 9

      “Why are you so Black?” Faulkner's Whiteface Minstrels, Primitivism, and Perversion (pages 148–164)

      John N. Duvall

    4. Chapter 10

      Shifting Sands (pages 165–179)

      Julia Leyda

    5. Chapter 11

      Faulkner's Families (pages 180–201)

      Arthur F. Kinney

    6. Chapter 12

      Changing the Subject of Place in Faulkner (pages 202–219)

      Cheryl Lester

    7. Chapter 13

      The State (pages 220–235)

      Ted Atkinson

    8. Chapter 14

      Violence in Faulkner's Major Novels (pages 236–251)

      Lothar Hönnighausen

    9. Chapter 15

      An Impossible Resignation (pages 252–268)

      Sean Latham

    10. Chapter 16

      Religion (pages 269–283)

      Leigh Anne Duck

    11. Chapter 17

      Cinematic Fascination in Light in August (pages 284–300)

      Peter Lurie

    12. Chapter 18

      Faulkner's Brazen Yoke (pages 301–318)

      Vincent Allan King

  5. Part III: Genres and Forms

    1. Chapter 19

      Faulkner's Genre Experiments (pages 321–341)

      Thomas L. McHaney

    2. Chapter 20

      “Make It New” (pages 342–358)

      Philip Weinstein

    3. Chapter 21

      Faulkner's Versions of Pastoral, Gothic, and the Sublime (pages 359–372)

      Susan V. Donaldson

    4. Chapter 22

      Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction (pages 373–393)

      Greg Forter

    5. Chapter 23

      William Faulkner's Short Stories (pages 394–409)

      Hans H. Skei

    6. Chapter 24

      Faulkner's Non-Fiction (pages 410–419)

      Noel Polk

    7. Chapter 25

      Faulkner's Texts (pages 420–426)

      Noel Polk

  6. Part IV: Sample Readings

    1. Chapter 26

      “By it I Would Stand or Fall” (pages 429–444)

      Donald M. Kartiganer

    2. Chapter 27

      Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystification in Absalom, Absalom! (pages 445–458)

      John Carlos Rowe

    3. Chapter 28

      “The Cradle of Your Nativity” (pages 459–476)

      Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber

  7. Part V: After Faulkner

    1. Chapter 29

      “He Doth Bestride the Narrow World Like a Colossus” (pages 479–498)

      Timothy P. Caron

    2. Chapter 30

      Faulkner, Latin America, and the Caribbean (pages 499–518)

      Deborah Cohn

    3. Chapter 31

      Faulkner's Continuance (pages 519–527)

      Patrick O'Donnell

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      Index (pages 528–538)

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