Literature insights [electronic resource]. William Faulkner : the Sound and the fury / Michael Cotsell.

ISBN:

9781847600554

9781282040465

Title:

Literature insights [electronic resource]. William Faulkner : the Sound and the fury / Michael Cotsell.

Author:

Moseley, C. W. R. D. (Charles W. R. D.), general editor.

Publication Information:

Tirril, Penrith : Humanities-Ebooks, 2008.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (104 pages)

Series:

Humanities Insights

General Note:

Title from PDF title page (viewed July 27, 2011).

Includes glossary of psychological terms.

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.

Local Note:

eBooks on EBSCOhost

Personal Subject:

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Sound and the fury.

Added Author:

Moseley, C. W. R. D. (Charles W. R. D.),

Cotsell, Michael.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2008

Publication Information:

Tirril, Penrith : Humanities-Ebooks, 2008.

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Summary

This study is intended both for first-time readers of The Sound and the Fury andsince it offers new scholarship and critical argument on Faulknerfor established critics and scholars. Chapter 1 provides some general context about Faulkners life and work in the American South and Yoknapatawpha County, and introduces the form and style of Faulkners novel. Chapter 2 provides a discussion of the contexts of Southern history and Faulkners family history. Chapter 3 is a discussion of the influences on Faulkner of Modernist literature and Modernist psychology and philosophy. Chapter 4 gives a close commentary on each of the novel's four narratives.