{"product_id":"a-companion-to-william-faulkner-9781405122245","title":"A Companion to William Faulkner","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis comprehensive Companion to William Faulkner reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies.      Explores the contexts, criticism, genres and interpretations of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American novelist.      Comprises original essays written by leading scholars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.\" \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard C. Moreland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I Contexts 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 A Difficult Economy: Faulkner and the Poetics of Plantation Labor 7\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Godden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 \"We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves\": Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain 28\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGrace Elizabeth Hale and Robert Jackson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 A Loving Gentleman and the Corncob Man: Faulkner, Gender, Sexuality, and The Reivers 46\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnne Goodwyn Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 \"C'est Vraiment Dégueulasse\": Meaning and Ending in A bout de souffle and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem 65\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatherine Gunther Kodat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Synthesis of Marx and Freud in Recent Faulkner Criticism 85\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Zeitlin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Faulkner's Lives 104\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJay Parini\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II Questions 113\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Refl ections on Language and Narrative 115\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOwen Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner 133\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarbara Ladd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 \"Why Are You So Black?\" Faulkner's Whiteface Minstrels, Primitivism, and Perversion 148\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn N. Duvall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Shifting Sands: The Myth of Class Mobility 165\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJulia Leyda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Faulkner's Families 180\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eArthur F. Kinney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Changing the Subject of Place in Faulkner 202\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCheryl Lester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The State 220\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTed Atkinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Violence in Faulkner's Major Novels 236\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLothar Hönnighausen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 An Impossible Resignation: William Faulkner's Post-Colonial Imagination 252\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSean Latham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Religion: Desire and Ideology 269\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeigh Anne Duck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Cinematic Fascination in Light in August 284\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Lurie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Faulkner's Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great Divide 301\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVincent Allan King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III Genres and Forms 319\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Faulkner's Genre Experiments 321\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas L. McHaney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 \"Make It New\": Faulkner and Modernism 342\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilip Weinstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Faulkner's Versions of Pastoral, Gothic, and the Sublime 359\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan V. Donaldson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction 373\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGreg Forter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 William Faulkner's Short Stories 394\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHans H. Skei\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Faulkner's Non-Fiction 410\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNoel Polk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Faulkner's Texts 420\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNoel Polk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV Sample Readings 427\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 \"By It I Would Stand or Fall\": Life and Death in As I Lay Dying 429\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDonald M. Kartiganer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystifi cation in Absalom, Absalom! 445\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Carlos Rowe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 \"The Cradle of Your Nativity\": Codes of Class Culture and Southern Desire in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy 459\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEvelyn Jaffe Schreiber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART V After Faulkner 477\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 \"He Doth Bestride the Narrow World Like a Colossus\": Faulkner's Critical Reception 479\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimothy P. 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