Faulkner and His Critics
Drawn from the pages of Modern Fiction Studies—with its distinguished tradition of publishing scholarship on William Faulkner—this landmark volume collects nineteen seminal essays that focus on Faulkner’s most popular fiction, reflecting the enduring relevance of his canon.

The essays are grouped thematically into four categories—Myth and Religion; Temporality, History, and Trauma; Gender and Race: Affect, the Body, and Identity; and Modernity and Modernist Technique. For ease of use in the classroom, MFS editor John N. Duvall has also included two appendixes. The first is an alternative table of contents that arranges the critiques by major novels. The second appendix lists all of the essays chronologically, and provides a full list of all seventy-three Faulkner essays published by MFSover the years.

Duvall’s introduction explains the critical role of MFS in the evolution of Faulkner studies. His organization of the works and his supplementary material provide both students and scholars with a concise overview of Faulkner studies from its New Critical beginnings through its current engagements with theory and history.

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Faulkner and His Critics
Drawn from the pages of Modern Fiction Studies—with its distinguished tradition of publishing scholarship on William Faulkner—this landmark volume collects nineteen seminal essays that focus on Faulkner’s most popular fiction, reflecting the enduring relevance of his canon.

The essays are grouped thematically into four categories—Myth and Religion; Temporality, History, and Trauma; Gender and Race: Affect, the Body, and Identity; and Modernity and Modernist Technique. For ease of use in the classroom, MFS editor John N. Duvall has also included two appendixes. The first is an alternative table of contents that arranges the critiques by major novels. The second appendix lists all of the essays chronologically, and provides a full list of all seventy-three Faulkner essays published by MFSover the years.

Duvall’s introduction explains the critical role of MFS in the evolution of Faulkner studies. His organization of the works and his supplementary material provide both students and scholars with a concise overview of Faulkner studies from its New Critical beginnings through its current engagements with theory and history.

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Drawn from the pages of Modern Fiction Studies—with its distinguished tradition of publishing scholarship on William Faulkner—this landmark volume collects nineteen seminal essays that focus on Faulkner’s most popular fiction, reflecting the enduring relevance of his canon.

The essays are grouped thematically into four categories—Myth and Religion; Temporality, History, and Trauma; Gender and Race: Affect, the Body, and Identity; and Modernity and Modernist Technique. For ease of use in the classroom, MFS editor John N. Duvall has also included two appendixes. The first is an alternative table of contents that arranges the critiques by major novels. The second appendix lists all of the essays chronologically, and provides a full list of all seventy-three Faulkner essays published by MFSover the years.

Duvall’s introduction explains the critical role of MFS in the evolution of Faulkner studies. His organization of the works and his supplementary material provide both students and scholars with a concise overview of Faulkner studies from its New Critical beginnings through its current engagements with theory and history.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801896996
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2010
Series: A Modern Fiction Studies Book
Pages: 408
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

John N. Duvall is the Margaret Church Distinguished Professor of English at Purdue University. The editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, he is the author of Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction: From Faulkner to Morrison.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Myth and Religion

Chapter 1 Christian Symbols in Light in August Beekman W. Cottrell 3

Chapter 2 Light in August: The Calvinism of William Faulkner Alwyn Berland 11

Chapter 3 The Role of Myth in Absalom, Absalom! Donald M. Kartiganer 24

Temporality, History, and Trauma

Chapter 4 Enigmas of Being in As I Lay Dying Robert Hemenway 41

Chapter 5 "If Was Existed": Faulkner's Prophets and the Patterns of History James G. Watson 56

Chapter 6 On Lamentation and the Redistribution of Possessions: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and the New South Rebecca Saunders 66

Chapter 7 "So I, who had never had a war ...": William Faulkner, War, and the Modern Imagination Donald M. Kartiganer 97

Chapter 8 Accounting for Slavery: Economic Narratives in Morrison and Faulkner Erik Dussere 122

Gender and Race: Affect, the Body, and Identity

Chapter 9 Faulkner's Garden: Woman and the Immemorial Earth Karl E. Zink 149

Chapter 10 "The Beautiful One": Caddy Compson as Heroine of The Sound and the Fury Catherine B. Baum 162

Chapter 11 Devious Channels of Decorous Ordering: A Lover's Discourse in Absalom, Absalom! Linda Kauffman 175

Chapter 12 Linda Snopes Kohl: Faulkner's Radical Woman Keith Louise Fulton 196

Chapter 13 Faulkner's Return to the Freudian Father: Sanctuary Reconsidered Doreen Fowler 210

Chapter 14 The Picture of Charles Bon: Oscar Wilde's Trip through Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha Ellen Crowell 236

Chapter 15 Extremities of the Body: The Anoptic Corporeality of As I Lay Dying Erin E. Edwards 275

Modernity and Modernist Technique

Chapter 16 Faulkner's Pylon and the Structure of Modernity Donald T. Torchiana 305

Chapter 17 Gothicism in Sanctuary: The Black Pall and the Crap Table David L. Frazier 324

Chapter 18 Faulkner's Storied Novel: Go Down, Moses and the Translation of Time Ronald Schleifer 336

Chapter 19 From Place to Place in The Sound and the Fury: The Syntax of Interrogation Cheryl Lester 358

Appendix A Alternative Grouping of Essays 375

Appendix B Chronological Listing of All Essays on Faulkner Published in MFS 377

List of Contributors 381

Index 385

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