A reader's guide to William Faulkner : the short stories / Edmond L. Volpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Volpe, Edmond L., 1922-2007.

Series:

Reader's guide series (Syracuse, N.Y.)

Reader's guides to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Faulkner, William.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

Short story--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Short story.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xv, 315 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2004.

Summary:

The new guide--the first comprehensive book of its kind--offers analyses of all Faulkner's short stories, published and unpublished, that were not incorporated into novels or turned into chapters of a novel. Seventy-one stories receive individual critical analysis and evaluation. These discussions reveal the relationship of the stories to the novels and point up Faulkner's skills as a writer of short fiction. Although Faulkner often spoke disparagingly of the short story form and claimed that he wrote stories for money--which he did--Edmond L. Volpe's study reveals that Faulkner could not escape even in this shorter form his incomparable fictional imagination nor his mastery of narrative structure and technique.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309) and index.

ISBN:

0815630476

OCLC:

54778405