Student Companion to William Faulkner (Student Companions to Classic Writers)

one Of America's Greatest Writers, William Faulkner Wrote Fiction That Combined Spellbinding Southern Storytelling With Modernist Formal Experimentation To Shape An Enduring Body Of Work. In His Fictional Yoknapatawpha County—based On The Region Around His Hometown Of Oxford, Mississippi—he Created An Entire World Peopled With Unforgettable Characters Linked Into An Intricate Historical And Social Web. An Introduction To The Nobel-prize-winning Author's Life And Work, This Book Devotes Opening Chapters To His Biography And Literary Heritage And Subsequent Chapters To Each Of His Major Works. The Analytical Chapters Start With His Most Accessible Book, the Unvanquished , A Civil-war-era Account Of A Boy's Coming Of Age. The Following Chapters Orient Readers To Elements Of Plot, Character, And Theme In Faulkner's Masterpieces: the Sound And The Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light In August , And absalom, Absalom! Also Analyzed And Discussed Are Some Of Faulkner's Most Often Anthologized Short Stories, Including a Rose For Emily And Barn Burning , And The Longer Stories the Bear, Spotted Horses , And the Old Man That Were Incorporated In The Novels go Down, Moses , the Hamlet , And if I Forget Thee, Jerusalem . Clear, Insightful Analyses Of The Elements Of Faulkner's Fiction Are Supplemented With Alternative Readings From A Variety Of Critical Approaches Including Gender, Rhetorical, Performance, And Cultural Studies Perspectives. Series Foreword ......Page 9 Acknowledgments ......Page 11 1 William Faulkner: A Southern Heart in Conflict with Itself......Page 13 2 Faulkner’s Literary Heritage......Page 21 3 The Unvanquished (1938) and Sartoris (1929)......Page 31 4 The Sound and the Fury (1929)......Page 43 5 As I Lay Dying (1930)......Page 57 6 Light in August (1932)......Page 73 7 Absalom, Absalom! (1936)......Page 93 8 Short Fiction......Page 111 Selected Bibliography ......Page 127 Index......Page 149 William Faulkner based his fictional Yoknapatawpha County on the region around his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi. He peopled it with unforgettable characters in an intricately interconnected historical and social world. This clear, insightful book introduces readers to the plots, characters, and themes of his major works A Comprehensive Guide To William Faulkner Provides A Biography And A Critical Assessment Of His Literary Heritage And Influences And Discusses The Author's Major Works, Examining The Plot, Character, Themes, Style, And Setting Of Each. Examines the major works of American author William Faulkner including "The Sound and the Fury," "As I Lay Dying," and "Light in August." Presents biographical information on Faulkner's life and discusses his literary influences