William Faulkner / editor, Kathryn Stelmach Artuso, Westmont College.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Artuso, Kathryn Stelmach, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.

Faulkner, William.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 298 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When William Faulkner received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, he completed an emergence from comparative obscurity that had begun three years before. Since then, Faulkner has achieved the status of a world author. His works have been painstakingly translated into many languages, and perhaps more critical books and articles have been written about him in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries than about any other writer with the exception of William Shakespeare. Critics and scholars from all over the world have contributed to the commentary. Faulkner's achievement has been compared favorably with the achievements of Henry James, Honoré de Balzac, and Charles Dickens; many critics regard him as the preeminent novelist of the twentieth century.Edited by Kathryn Stelmach Artuso, Assistant Professor of English at Westmont College, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the canonized American novelist. For readers who are studying Faulkner for the first time, a biographical sketch relates the details of his life and four essays survey the critical reception of his work, explore its cultural and historical contexts, situate Faulkner among his contemporaries, and review key themes in his work. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then move on to other original essays that explore a bevy of topics, such as the influence of James Joyce on Faulkner and his work, the author's tradition of literary pessimism, and the celebrated author's relationship to film and television. Among the contributors are Doreen Fowler, D. Matthew Ramsey, Jacques Pothier, and Bryan Giemza. Rounding out the volume are a chronology of Faulkner's life and a list of his principle publications as well as a bibliography for readers seeking to study this fascinating author in greater depth.

Contents:

On William Faulkner / Kathryn Stelmach Artuso

Biography of William Faulkner / Lorie Watkins Fulton

"The Past is Never Dead" : Faulkner's relationship to Southern culture and history / Karen M. Andrews

William Faulkner's critical reception / Taylor Hagood

Reading Faulkner through Morrison / Doreen Fowler

Misreading "the other" as a strategy of narrative empathy in Go down, Moses / Patrick E. Horn

Faulkner the cannibal: digesting Conrad / Jacques Pothier

A furious echo : hearing Dublin's Joyce in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha / Kieran Quinlan

As I lay dying, The time of man, and the modern folk novel / Mark Lucas

"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, and jurisprudence / Bryan Giemza

"Far from home across the sea" : William Faulkner, Randall Kenan, and taboo sexualities / Mary Alice Kirkpatrick

Faulkner and the Bible : a haunted voice / Norman W. Jones

"A summer of wistaria" : old tales and talking, story and history in Absalom, Absalom! / Hans H. Skei

Faulkner and film : the 1950s melodramas / D. Matthew Ramsey

Hurling yourself against the beautiful : Faulkner and creativity / Amy Weldon.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781429838443

1429838442

OCLC:

843334828