Author:
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962, author.
Edition Statement:Third edition.
ImprintNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Descriptionxv, 528 pages ; 22 cm.
Note:The text of The sound and the fury -- Backgrounds and contexts -- Contemporary reception -- On William Faulkner's The sound and the fury / Evelyn Scott -- [Three southern novels] / Henry Nash Smith -- Two aspects of Telemachus / Dudley Fitts -- Introduction to The sound and the fury / Richard Hughes -- Review of The sound and the fury / Edward Crickmay -- The writer and his work -- Selected letters / William Faulkner -- [Publishing The sound and the fury] Ben Wasson -- That evening sun ; An introduction for The sound and the fury ; An introduction to The sound and the fury ; Letters to Malcolm Cowley about The portable Faulkner ; Appendix: Compson 1699-1945 ; Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature ; Interview with Jean Stein ; Class conferences at the University of Virginia ; Map of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi / William Faulkner -- Cultural and historical contexts -- The irony of southern history / C. Vann Woodward -- Fictions of history / Richard J. Gray -- From Lanterns on the levee: recollections of a planter's son / William Alexander Percy -- The lessons / Lillian Smith -- The stream of consciousness / William James -- Duration / Henri Bergson -- Criticism -- On The sound and the fury: time in the work of Faulkner / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The sound and the fury: a study in perspective / Olga W. Vickery -- Man, time, and eternity / Cleanth Brooks -- [Doubling and incest in The sound and the fury] / John T. Irwin -- [The meaning of form in The sound and the fury] / Donald M. Kartiganer -- Faulkner, childhood, and the making of The sound and the fury / David Minter -- The myth of The sound and the fury / Eric Sundquist -- [Faulkner's "negro" in The sound and the fury] / Thadious M. Davis -- An Easter without resurrection? / André Bleikasten -- Hearing Caddy's voice / Minrose C. Gwin -- "If I could say mother": construing the unsayable about Faulknerian maternity / Philip M. Weinstein -- Trying not to say: a primer on the language of The sound and the fury / Noel Polk -- "Little sister death": The sound and the fury and the denied unconscious / Doreen Fowler -- ["Trying to say": Benjamin Compson, forming thoughts, and the crucible of race] / Richard Godden -- Dialect and modernism in The sound and the fury / John T. Matthews -- Rereading Faulkner: authority, criticism, and The sound and the fury / Stacy Burton -- Textual abuse: Faulkner's Benjy / Maria Truchan-Tataryn -- William Faulkner : a chronology.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-528).
Note:"William Faulkner's provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors while focusing new attention on both the novel's contemporary reception and its rich cultural and historical contexts. The text for the Third Edition is again that of the corrected text scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the novel. David Minter's annotations, designed to assist readers with obscure words and allusions, have been retained. "Contemporary Reception," new to the Third Edition, considers the broad range of reactions to Faulkner's extraordinary novel on publication. Michael Gorra's headnote sets the stage for assessments by Evelyn Scott, Henry Nash Smith, Clifton P. Fadiman, Dudley Fitts, Richard Hughes, and Edward Crickmay. New materials by Faulkner ("The Writer and His Work") include letters to Malcolm Cowley about The Portable Faulkner and Faulkner's Nobel Prize for Literature address. "Cultural and Historical Contexts" begins with Michael Gorra's insightful headnote, which is followed by seven seminal considerations--five of them new to the Third Edition--of southern history, literature, and memory. Together, these works--by C. Vann Woodward, Richard H. King, Richard Gray, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, William James, and Henri Bergson--provide readers with important contexts for understanding the novel. "Criticism" represents eighty-five years of scholarly engagement with The Sound and the Fury. New to the Third Edition are essays by Eric Sundquist, Noel Polk, Doreen Fowler, Richard Godden, Stacy Burton, and Maria Truchan-Tataryn. A Chronology of Faulkner's life and work is newly included along with an updated Selected Bibliography." -- From the publisher.
