num_pages: 160
description: In a series of essays written especially for this volume, five distinguished critics offer a range of approaches, discussing the novel in terms of its composition and position in Faulkner's career, its structure and narrative techniques, and its relation to the religious, racial, and sexual assumptions of the society it represents.
language: English
title: New Essays on Light in August
titlecomplete: New Essays on Light in August (The American Novel)
ratings_count: 7
series: The American Novel
publisher: Cambridge University Press