Reading William Faulkner: 'The Sound and the Fury'

Reading William Faulkner: 'The Sound and the Fury'
ISBN-10
1847602061
ISBN-13
9781847602060
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
121
Language
English
Published
2012-10-10
Publisher
eBook Partnership
Author
Michael Cotsell

Description

This study is intended both for first-time readers of The Sound and the Fury and-since it offers new scholarship and critical argument on Faulkner-for 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

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