Camb Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press, 1/12/2008
EAN 9780521421676, ISBN10: 0521421675
Paperback, 264 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
This collection of essays explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory and written in accessible English, ten major Faulkner scholars examine the enduring whole of Faulkner's oeuvre. Bringing into focus the broader cultural context which lent its resonance to his work, the collection will be particularly useful for the student seeking critical introduction to Faulkner, while also serving the dedicated scholar interested in recent trends in Faulkner criticism. Together these essays map Faulkner's contemporary meaning by exploring his relation to modernism and postmodernism, to twentieth-century mass culture, to European and Latin American fiction, to issues of gender difference, and, above all, to the conflicted scene of United States race relations. Neither assuming in advance his literary 'greatness' nor insisting that his canonical status be revoked, they instead pose the question: what is at stake today in reading Faulkner?
Introduction Philip M. Weinstein
Part I. The Texts in the World
1. Faulkner and modernism Richard Moreland
2. Faulkner and postmodernism Patrick O'Donnell
3. Faulkner and the culture industry John T. Matthews
4. Faulkner from a European perspective André Bleikasten
5. Looking for a master plan
Faulkner, Paredes, and the colonial and postcolonial subject Ramón SaldÃÂvar
Part II. The World in the Texts
6. Racial awareness and arrested development
The Sound and the Fury and The Great Migration (1915–1928) Cheryl Lester
7. Race in Light in August
word symbols and obverse reflections Judith Bryant Wittenberg
8. Absalom, Absalom!
(Un)making the father Carolyn Porter
Conclusion
the stakes of reading Faulkner
discerning reading Warwick Wadlington
Index.