Author:
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962, author.
Edition Statement:Second edition.
ImprintNew York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
Descriptionxiv, 427 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Note:The text of As I lay dying -- Backgrounds and context -- Contemporary reception -- Beside Addie's coffin / Margaret Cheney Dawson -- [Literature and less] / Julia K.W. Baker -- Morbidity in fiction / Clifton P. Fadiman -- [A troubled vision] / Henry Nash Smith -- [The school of cruelty] / Henry Seidel Canby -- [William Faulkner] / Maurice-Edgar Coindreau -- Preface to Tandis que j'agonise de William Faulkner / Valery Larbaud -- The writer and his work -- Adolescence ; As I lay dying ; Introduction to the Modern Library edition of Sanctuary ; An introduction for The sound and the fury ; Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature ; [The Paris review interview] ; Class conferences at the University of Virginia ; Map: Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi ; Sample pages from the manuscript and carbon typescript of As I lay dying / William Faulkner -- Cultural context -- Benighted South / Fred Hobson -- from The hind tit / Andrew Nelson Lytle -- [The Gudger house] / James Agee and Walker Evans -- from Pills, petticoats and plows: the Southern country store / Thomas D. Clark -- from Thirty-sixth biennial report of the Mississippi State Insane Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi, from July 1, 1925, to June 20, 1927 / C.D. Mitchell, M.D., Superintendent -- from Mothers of the South: portraiture of the white tenant farm woman / Margaret Jarman Hagood -- Advertisements for abortifacients -- Criticism -- The dimensions of consciousness / Olga W. Vickery -- Odyssey of the Bundrens / Cleanth Brooks -- Death, grief, analogous form: As I lay dying / Eric Sundquist -- Matricide and the mother's revenge: As I lay dying / Dareen Fowler -- As I lay dying's heterogeneous discourse / Dorothy J. Hale -- Between the family and the state: nomadism and authority in As I lay dying / Patrick O'Donnell -- As I lay dying in the machine age / John T. Matthews -- Addie in no man's land / John Limon -- Mired mediations: As I lay dying, a horse, a fish, telepathy, and economics / Richard Godden -- As I lay dying and the modern aesthetics of ecological crisis / Susan Scott Parrish -- Inhuman remains: the production and decomposition of the human in William Falkner's South / Erin E. Edwards -- William Faulkner: a chronology.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-427).
Note:"This Norton Critical Edition of As I Lay Dying, second edition, features William Faulkner's experimental Southern novel with editorial annotations. This canonical twentieth-century work centers on the Bundren family following the death of matriarch Addie Bundren. The story uses fifteen separate and largely unreliable narrators to describe the arduous trip that the surviving members of the family make to bury Addie in Jefferson, Mississippi. The "Backgrounds and Contexts" section covers Faulkner, his work, and early receptions of the novel. A variety of theoretical essays can be found in the "Criticism" section on topics including grief, matricide, and narration. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included in this edition."-- Provided by publisher.
