New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781107689565
Subjects: American literature, history and criticism, 20th century; Faulkner, william, 1897-1962; Southern states, in literature
Description: "The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety of topics in Faulkner's fiction, such as its reflection of the concurrent emergence of cinema, social inequality and rights movements, modern ways of imagining sexual identity and behavior, the South's history as a plantation economy and society, and the persistent effects of traumatic cultural and personal experience. This new Companion provides an introduction to the innovative ways Faulkner is being read in the twenty-first century, and bears witness to his continued importance as an American and world writer"-- Provided by publisher.