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William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying: Essays - Articles - Reviews  
Author: Nicolas Tredell (Editor)
ISBN: 023112189X
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
This Guide explores the wealth of critical material generated by these two exceptional works of modernist fiction. From the initially mixed critical responses to the novels in the early 1930s, the Guide follows the enormous growth of interest in Faulkner's work across six decades. New writings shaped by a range of critical theories are discussed, offering the reader a clear view of the place now given to one of America's most innovative and influential novelists.


About the Author
Nicolas Tredell teaches at the University of Sussex.




William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying: Essays - Articles - Reviews

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Now recognized as two of Faulkner´s greatest novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) were commercial failures in the decade following their publication. By the end of the Second World War, however, the reputation of both novels had grown and Faulkner´s great fictional creation, Yoknapatawpha County, had become as much a part of America as any real area of the Mississippi landscape. This Guide explores the wealth of critical material generated by these two exceptional works of modernist fiction. From the initially mixed critical responses to the novels in the early 1930s, the Guide follows the enormous growth of interest in Faulkner´s work across six decades. New writings shaped by a range of critical theories are discussed, offering the reader a clear view of the place now given to one of America´s most innovative and influential novelists.

SYNOPSIS

This Guide explores the wealth of critical material generated by these two exceptional works of modernist fiction. From the initially mixed critical responses to the novels in the early 1930s, the Guide follows the enormous growth of interest in Faulkner´s work across six decades. New writings shaped by a range of critical theori

FROM THE CRITICS

Booknews

In five essays heavy with excerpts, Tredell traces the critical reception of the 1929 and 1930 novels by southern US writer Faulkner, widely considered to be among his most powerful. The chronological essays cover trying to say 1929-49; taming the furies in the 1950s and 1960s; sounding the depths in the 1970s; division, death, and desire in the 1980s; and mothers, signifying monkeys, and significant eyes in the 1990s. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

     



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