Teaching Faulkner : approaches and methods / edited by Stephen Hahn and Robert W. Hamblin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hahn, Stephen, 1950-

Hamblin, Robert W.

Series:

Contributions to the study of American literature 1092-6356 ; no. 9.

Contributions to the study of American literature, 1092-6356 ; no. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Study and teaching.

Faulkner, William.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

Mississippi--In literature--Study and teaching.

Mississippi.

Physical Description:

ix, 221 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.

Summary:

Provides fresh insights and practical suggestions for the classroom study of several of Faulkner's finest novels and stories.

Contents:

Why Faulkner?

When the Dancing Mind Meets Inquiring Minds: The Nobel Profession in Practice / Theresa M. Towner 11

"No Longer at Ease Here": Faulkner in the New Millennium / Philip M. Weinstein 19

Why I, a Woman of Color from India, Enjoy Teaching William Faulkner / Rajini Srikanth 31

Approaches and Methods

Tracing Racial Assumptions: Teaching "That Evening Sun" / Doreen Fowler 47

"Handy" Ways to Teach "That Evening Sun" / Charles A. Peek 53

"Who Says What about Whom to Whom?": Teaching the Fourth Section of The Sound and the Fury / Stephen Hahn 59

"Words That Don't Fit": As I Lay Dying and Graciliano Ramos's Barren Lives / Catarina Edinger 73

Faulkner, Cather, and "Lost Ladies" / Mary McAleer Balkun 85

The Invention of Sunday: Eloquence and Counter-Eloquence in Light in August / James D. Bloom 97

Entering the Dark House: Teaching Absalom, Absalom! through Citizen Kane / John N. Duvall 105

Teaching The Unvanquished / Veronica Makowsky, Bradley Johnson 117

Reading Faulkner Pragmatically: The Hamlet and William James / David H. Evans 125

Teaching Go Down, Moses: "Was," Faulkner's "Nigger Stories," and Now / Arthur F. Kinney 131

Teaching "The Bear" as an Artifact of Frontier Mythology / Peter Alan Froehlich 137

Teaching Intruder in the Dust through Its Political and Historical Context / Robert W. Hamblin 151

"The Sum of Your Ancestry": Cultural Context and Intruder in the Dust / Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber 163

The Drama of Teaching Requiem for a Nun / Christopher LaLonde 171

Teaching Faulkner's "Case Histories" / David L. Vanderwerken 181

Tense Unresolve: Ending a Course on Faulkner / Terrell L. Tebbetts 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-205) and index.

ISBN:

0313315906

OCLC:

44541868