Literature insights the Sound and the fury / William Faulkner :
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.
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to Faulkner's life and work. 'Yoknapatawpha County'
- Early fiction
- The chronicles
- Novels of contemporary life
- The 'Commitment' writings
- The composition of The Sound and the Fury
- The 'Dark House'
- Introduction to the form of The Sound and the Fury
- Summary of the sections
- Race in The Sound and the Fury.
- Contexts. The South
- Oxford
- Southern religion
- Views of the South by Southerners
- The Falkners
- Literary influences before Modernism.
- Faulkner and Modernism. Modernism at 'Ole Miss' and in New Orleans
- Predecessors to the Modernist novel
- New York 1920-21
- Faulkner and the 'Lost Generation'
- France 1925-6
- Modernist influences: philosophy and psychology.
- Reading The Sound and the Fury. Reading the title
- The idiot's tale
- The suicide's tale
- The nasty boy's tale
- (Who) is Caddy?
- The racist's tale?
- Appendix I: Faulkner's commentaries on The Sound and the Fury.
