William Faulkner's The sound and the fury /
This classic novel, told in four chapters by four different voices, tells the story of the decline of the once prominent Compson family along with the deterioration of the Southern aristocratic class in the deep south after the Civil War.
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| Language: | English |
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Broomall, PA :
Chelsea House Publishers,
©1999.
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| Series: | Bloom's notes
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Table of Contents:
- Critical views
- Chronology of the novel / Jean-Paul Sartre ; Comic elements in the novel / John Arthos ; Faulkner's depiction of the Southern Negro / Ralph Ellison ; Thematic and plot structure of the novel / Olga W. Vickery ; Caddy's affair with Dalton Ames / Frederick J. Hoffmann ; Jason as a genuine Compson / Peter Swiggart ; Quentin Compson's moralism / John W. Hunt ; Points of view in the novel / Cleanth Brooks ; A.E. Housman's influence on the novel / Joseph Brogunier ; Sartre's critique of the novel / George C. Bedell ; Quentin Compson's dual nature / John T. Irwin ; Novel and literary modernism / Andre Bleikasten ; Novel as chivalric romance / Lynn G. Levins ; Faulkner's earlier works and the novel / Gary L. Stonum ; Novel as a classic tragedy / Warwick Wadlington ; Racism and Southern identity / Thadius M. Davis ; Rhetoric of the Quentin narrative / Gail L. Mortimer ; Benjy Compson as a Christ figure / Jessie M. Coffee ; Literary form and loss in the novel / James M. Cox ; Caddy Compson as sister and mother / Deborah Clarke.