The sound and the fury : an authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism

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Reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues of the idiot Benjy and his brothers, Quentin and Jason. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 (Author)
Other Authors: Gorra, Michael Edward (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Norton critical edition
Subjects:
Faulkner, William, > 1897-1962. > Sound and the fury.
Faulkner, William, > 1897-1962 > Criticism and interpretation.
Faulkner, William, > 1897-1962.
Sound and the fury (Faulkner, William)
Compson, Caddy (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
People with mental disabilities > Fiction.
African American women cooks > Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class) > Fiction.
Illegitimate children > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
African American women cooks.
Aristocracy (Social class)
Brothers and sisters.
Compson, Caddy (Fictitious character)
Illegitimate children.
People with mental disabilities.
Mississippi > Fiction.
Mississippi.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Fiction.
Novels.
Table of Contents:
  • The text of The sound and the fury
  • Backgrounds and contexts. Contemporary reception
  • (On William Faulkner's The sound and the fury / Evelyn Scott
  • [Three Southern novels] / Henry Nash Smith
  • Two aspects of Telemachus / Dudley Fitts
  • Introduction to The sound and the fury / Richard Hughes
  • Review of the The sound and the fury / Edward Crickmay)
  • The writer and his work
  • (Selected letters / William Faulkner
  • [Publishing The sound and the fury] / Ben Wasson
  • That evening sun ; An introduction to The sound and the fury ; Letters to Malcolm Cowley about The portable Faulkner ; Appendix: Compson 1699-1945 ; Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature ; Interview with Jean Stein ; Class conferences at the University of Virginia / William Faulkner
  • Map of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi)
  • Cultural and historical contexts
  • (The irony of Southern history / C. Vann Woodward
  • Fictions of history / Richard J. Gray
  • From Lanterns on the levee: recollection of a planter's son / William Alexander Percy
  • The lessons / Lillian Smith
  • The stream of consciousness / William James
  • Duration / Henri Bergson)
  • Criticism
  • (On The sound and the fury: time in the work of Faulkner / Jean-Paul Sartre
  • The sound and the fury: a study in perspective / Olga W. Vickery
  • Man, time, and eternity / Cleanth Brooks
  • [Doubling and incest in The sound and the fury] / John T. Irwin
  • [The meaning of form in The sound and the fury] / Donald M. Kartiganer
  • Faulkner, childhood, and the making of The sound and the fury / David Minter
  • The myth of The sound and the fury / Eric Sundquist
  • [Faulkner's "Negro" in The sound and the fury] / Thadious M. Davis
  • An Easter without Resurrection? / André Bleikasten
  • Hearing Caddy's voice / Minrose C. Gwin
  • "If I could say mother": construing the unsayable about Faulknerian maternity / Philip M. Weinstein
  • Trying not to say: a primer on the language of The sound and the fury / Noel Polk
  • "Little sister death": The sound and the fury and the denied unconscious / Doreen Fowler
  • ["Trying to say": Benjamin Compson, forming thoughts, and the crucible of race] / Richard Godden
  • Dialect and modernism in The sound and the fury / John T. Matthews
  • Rereading Faulkner: authority, criticism, and The sound and the fury / Stacy Burton
  • Textual abuse: Faulkner's Benjy)
  • William Faulkner : a chronology.

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