New Essays on The Sound and the Fury (Hardcover)

William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury met with only limited success when published in 1929, probably due to its fragmented, non-chronological structure. Since, however, it has become one of the most popular of Faulkner's novels, serving as a litmus paper upon which critical approaches have tested themselves. In the introduction to this volume Noel Polk traces the critical responses to the novel from the time of its publication to the present day. The essays that follow present contemporary reassessments of The Sound and the Fury from a variety of critical perspectives. Dawn Trouard offers us the women of The Sound and the Fury, reading against the grain of the predominant critical tradition that sees the women through the lens of masculine cultural biases. Donald M. Kartiganer comes to terms with the ways in which the novel simultaneously attracts readers and resists readings. Richard Godden discusses the relationship between incest and miscegenation. Noel Polk examines closely the way Faulkner experiments with language.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The American Novel
Release date:	October 1993
First published:	1993
Editors:	Noel Polk
Dimensions:	224 x 144 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	196
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-45114-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-521-45114-0
Barcode:	9780521451147

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