Reading Faulkner
Subtitle: introductions to the first thirteen novels
By: Richard Marius ; compiled and edited by Nancy Grisham Anderson.
Contributors: Anderson, Nancy G., 1940-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: "An expository treatment of Faulkner's major works, Reading Faulkner comprises essays that are arranged in roughly chronological order, corresponding to Faulkner's development as a writer. In a way sure to captivate the imagination of a new reader of Faulkner, Marius explicates themes in Faulkner's work, and he sheds light on the larger social history that marked Faulkner's literary production."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and index.
Lectures originally written for a course on Faulkner at Harvard by Richard Marius.
Table of contents: title: Soldiers' pay; title: Mosquitoes; title: Flags in the dust; title: Faulkner and Blacks; title: The sound and the fury; title: As I lay dying; title: Sanctuary; title: Light in August; title: Pylon; title: Absalom, Absalom!; title: The unvanquished; title: The wild palms; title: The hamlet; title: Faulkner and the mythological world; title: Go down, Moses.