New essays on Light in August / edited by Michael Millgate.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Millgate, Michael, editor.

Series:

American Novel.

The American novel

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Light in August.

Faulkner, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 151 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Light in August (1932) is one of William Faulkner's most important, most challenging, and most widely studied novels, demanding to be approached from many angles and with a variety of critical and scholarly skills. Here five distinguished critics offer just such a range of approaches, discussing the novel in terms of its composition and its place in Faulkner's oeuvre; its structure and narrative techniques; its relation to the religious, racial, and sexual assumptions of the society it depicts; its presentation of women and handling of gender-related issues; and the social and moral implications of the 'hero' status accorded to a figure like Joe Christmas. Each contributor has had a double ambition: to write clearly and directly, thus making the volume accessible to the widest possible audience, and to write freshly and originally, so as to enhance - even for those thoroughly familiar with the existing criticism - understanding and appreciation of Light in August itself and of Faulkner's work as a whole.

Contents:

"A novel: not an anecdote": Faulkner's Light in August / Michael Millgate

Plots and counterplots: The structure of Light in August / Martin Kreiswirth

Light in August: the closed society and its subjects / André Bleikasten

The women of Light in August / Judith Bryant Wittenberg

On the difference between prevailing and enduring / Alexander Welsh.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-62045-4