The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

This collection of essays explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory and writing in accessible English, ten major Faulkner scholars examine the enduring whole of Faulkner's work and bring into focus the broader cultural contexts that lent resonance to his work. The collection will be particularly useful to the student seeking a critical introduction to Faulkner, while also serving the dedicated scholar interested in recent trends in Faulkner criticism. This Collection Of Essays Explores Key Dimensions Of Faulkner's Widespread Cultural Import. Drawing On A Wide Range Of Cultural Theory, Ten Major Faulkner Scholars Examine Closely The Enduring Whole Of Faulkner's Oeuvre In Clearly Written And Intellectually Provocative Essays. Bringing Into Focus The Broader Cultural Contexts That Give His Work Its Resonance, The Collection Will Be Particularly Useful For The Student Seeking A Critical Introduction To Faulkner, While Serving Also The Dedicated Scholar Interested In Discerning Recent Trends In Faulkner Criticism. Together, These Essays Map Faulkner's Present-day Meaning By Exploring His Relations To Modernism And Postmodernism, To Twentieth-century Mass Culture, To European And Latin American Fiction, To Issues Of Gender Difference, And, Above All, To The Conflicted Scene Of U.s. Race Relations. Neither Assuming In Advance His Literary Greatness Nor Insisting That His Canonical Status Be Revoked, The Essays Ask Instead, What Is At Stake, Today, In Reading Faulkner? What Company Does He Keep? In What Ways Does His Work Intersect With Current Debates On Race And Gender? How Does His Practice Respond To Today's Questions About The Individual Subject's Insertion Within Broader Cultural Activities? Why, In Short, Should We Read Him Now? Faulkner And Modernism / Richard C. Moreland -- Faulkner And Postmodernism / Patrick O'donnell -- Faulkner And The Culture Industry / John Matthews / Faulkner From A European Perspective / André Bleikasten -- Looking For A Master Plan : Faulkner, Paredes, And The Colonial And Postcolonial Subject / Ramón Saldívar -- Racial Awareness And Arrested Development : The Sound And The Fury And The Great Migration (1915-1928) / Cheryl Lester -- Race In Light In August : Wordsymbols And Obverse Reflections / Judith Bryant Wittenberg -- Absalom, Absalom! : (un)making The Father / Carolyn Porter. Edited By Philip M. Weinstein. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 221-230) And Index. This collection of essays explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory and written in accessible English, ten major Faulkner scholars examine the enduring whole of Faulkner's oeuvre. Bringing into focus the broader cultural context which lent its resonance to his work, the collection will be particularly useful for the student seeking critical introduction to Faulkner, while also serving the dedicated scholar interested in recent trends in Faulkner criticism. Together these essays map Faulkner's contemporary meaning by exploring his relation to modernism and postmodernism, to twentieth-century mass culture, to European and Latin American fiction, to issues of gender difference, and, above all, to the conflicted scene of United States race relations. Neither assuming in advance his literary 'greatness' nor insisting that his canonical status be revoked, they instead pose the question: what is at stake today in reading Faulkner?

this Collection Of Essays By Ten Major Scholars Explores Faulkner's Widespread Cultural Import.