| New Essays on the Sound and the Fury Contributor(s): Polk, Noel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521457343 ISBN-13: 9780521457347 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1993 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| LCCN: 93000568 |
| Series: American Novel (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.46" W x 8.48" (0.50 lbs) 196 pages |