Reading William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Books & Reading
| Author: | Michael Cotsell | ISBN: | 9781847602060 |
| Publisher: | Humanities-Ebooks | Publication: | October 10, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Humanities-Ebooks | Language: | English |
| Author: | Michael Cotsell |
| ISBN: | 9781847602060 |
| Publisher: | Humanities-Ebooks |
| Publication: | October 10, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Humanities-Ebooks |
| Language: | English |
This study is intended both for first-time readers of The Sound and the Fury andsince it offers new scholarship and critical argument on Faulknerfor established critics and scholars. Chapter 1 provides some general context about Faulkner's life and work in the American South and 'Yoknapatawpha County', and introduces the form and style of Faulkner's novel. Chapter 2 provides a discussion of the contexts of Southern history and Faulkner's family history. Chapter 3 is a discussion of the influences on Faulkner of Modernist literature and Modernist psychology and philosophy. Chapter 4 gives a close commentary on each of the novel's four narratives
This study is intended both for first-time readers of The Sound and the Fury andsince it offers new scholarship and critical argument on Faulknerfor established critics and scholars. Chapter 1 provides some general context about Faulkner's life and work in the American South and 'Yoknapatawpha County', and introduces the form and style of Faulkner's novel. Chapter 2 provides a discussion of the contexts of Southern history and Faulkner's family history. Chapter 3 is a discussion of the influences on Faulkner of Modernist literature and Modernist psychology and philosophy. Chapter 4 gives a close commentary on each of the novel's four narratives
