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Faulkner and His Critics

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Drawn from the pages of Modern Fiction Studies—with its distinguished tradition of publishing scholarship on William Faulkner—this landmark volume collects nineteen seminal essays that focus on Faulkner’s most popular fiction, reflecting the enduring relevance of his canon.

The essays are grouped thematically into four categories—Myth and Religion; Temporality, History, and Trauma; Gender and Race: Affect, the Body, and Identity; and Modernity and Modernist Technique. For ease of use in the classroom, MFS editor John N. Duvall has also included two appendixes. The first is an alternative table...

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Drawn from the pages of Modern Fiction Studies—with its distinguished tradition of publishing scholarship on William Faulkner—this landmark volume collects nineteen seminal essays that focus on Faulkner’s most popular fiction, reflecting the enduring relevance of his canon.

The essays are grouped thematically into four categories—Myth and Religion; Temporality, History, and Trauma; Gender and Race: Affect, the Body, and Identity; and Modernity and Modernist Technique. For ease of use in the classroom, MFS editor John N. Duvall has also included two appendixes. The first is an alternative table of contents that arranges the critiques by major novels. The second appendix lists all of the essays chronologically, and provides a full list of all seventy-three Faulkner essays published by MFSover the years.

Duvall’s introduction explains the critical role of MFS in the evolution of Faulkner studies. His organization of the works and his supplementary material provide both students and scholars with a concise overview of Faulkner studies from its New Critical beginnings through its current engagements with theory and history.

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Preface
Part I: Myth and Religion
Chapter 1. Christian Symbols in Light in August
Chapter 2. Light in August: The Calvinism of William Faulkner
Chapter 3. The Role of Myth in Absalom, Absalom!
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Preface
Part I: Myth and Religion
Chapter 1. Christian Symbols in Light in August
Chapter 2. Light in August: The Calvinism of William Faulkner
Chapter 3. The Role of Myth in Absalom, Absalom!
Part II: Temporality, History, and Trauma
Chapter 4. Enigmas of Being in As I Lay Dying
Chapter 5. "If Was Existed": Faulkner's Prophets and the Patterns of History
Chapter 6. On Lamentation and the Redistribution of Possessions: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and the New South
Chapter 7. "So I, who had never had a war...": William Faulkner, War, and the Modern Imagination
Chapter 8. Accounting for Slavery: Economic Narratives in Morrison and Faulkner
Part III: Gender and Race: Affect, the Body, and Identity
Chapter 9. Faulkner's Garden: Woman and the Immemorial Earth
Chapter 10. "The Beautiful One": Caddy Compson as Heroine of The Sound and the Fury
Chapter 11. Devious Channels of Decorous Ordering: A Lover's Discourse in Absalom, Absalom!
Chapter 12. Linda Snopes Kohl: Faulkner's Radical Woman
Chapter 13. Faulkner's Return to the Freudian Father: Sanctuary Reconsidered
Chapter 14. The Picture of Charles Bon: Oscar Wilde's Trip through Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha
Chapter 15. Extremities of the Body: The Anoptic Corporeality of As I Lay Dying
Part IV: Modernity and Modernist Technique
Chapter 16. Faulkner's Pylon and the Structure of Modernity
Chapter 17. Gothicism in Sanctuary: The Black Pall and the Crap Table
Chapter 18. Faulkner's Storied Novel: Go Down, Moses and the Translation of Time
Chapter 19. From Place to Place in The Sound and the Fury: The Syntax of Interrogation
Appendix A. Alternative Grouping of Essays
Appendix B. Chronological Listing of All Essays on Faulkner Published in MFS
List of Contributors
Index

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John N. Duvall

John N. Duvall is the Margaret Church Distinguished Professor of English at Purdue University. The editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, he is the author of Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction: From Faulkner to Morrison.
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