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This page intentionally left blank TheCambridgeIntroductionto William Faulkner Knownforhisdistinctivevoiceandhisevocativedepictionsoflifein theAmericanSouth,NobellaureateWilliamFaulknerisrecognizedas oneofthemostimportantauthorsofthetwentiethcentury.This introductorybookprovidesstudentsandreadersofFaulknerwitha clearoverviewofhislifeandwork.Hisnineteennovels,includingThe SoundandtheFury,AsILayDying,Absalom,Absalom!,andGoDown, Moses,arediscussedindetail,asarehismajorshortstoriesand nonfiction.Focusedontheworksthemselves,butalsoprovidinguseful informationabouttheircriticalreception,thisIntroductionisan accessibleguidetoFaulkner’schallengingandcomplexoeuvre. TheresaM.TownerisProfessorofLiteraryStudiesattheUniversityof TexasatDallas. Cambridge Introductions to Literature Thisseriesisdesignedtointroducestudentstokeytopicsandauthors. Accessibleandlively,theseintroductionswillalsoappealtoreaderswhowantto broadentheirunderstandingofthebooksandauthorstheyenjoy. (cid:1) Idealforstudents,teachers,andlecturers (cid:1) Concise,yetpackedwithessentialinformation (cid:1) Keysuggestionsforfurtherreading Titlesinthisseries: ChristopherBalme TheCambridgeIntroductiontoTheatreStudies EricBulson TheCambridgeIntroductiontoJamesJoyce WarrenChernaik TheCambridgeIntroductiontoShakespeare’sHistoryPlays JohnXirosCooper TheCambridgeIntroductiontoT.S.Eliot PatrickCorcoran TheCambridgeIntroductiontoFrancophoneLiterature GreggCrane TheCambridgeIntroductiontotheNineteenth-CenturyAmerican Novel KirkCurnutt TheCambridgeIntroductiontoF.ScottFitzgerald JanetteDillon TheCambridgeIntroductiontoEarlyEnglishTheatre JanetteDillon TheCambridgeIntroductiontoShakespeare’sTragedies JaneGoldman TheCambridgeIntroductiontoVirginiaWoolf KevinJ.Hayes TheCambridgeIntroductiontoHermanMelville NancyHenry TheCambridgeIntroductiontoGeorgeEliot LeslieHill TheCambridgeIntroductiontoJacquesDerrida DavidHoldeman TheCambridgeIntroductiontoW.B.Yeats AdrianHunter TheCambridgeIntroductiontotheShortStoryinEnglish C.L.Innes TheCambridgeIntroductiontoPostcolonialLiteratures M.JimmieKillingsworth TheCambridgeIntroductiontoWaltWhitman PericlesLewis TheCambridgeIntroductiontoModernism RomanMcDonald TheCambridgeIntroductiontoSamuelBeckett WendyMartin TheCambridgeIntroductiontoEmilyDickinson PeterMessent TheCambridgeIntroductiontoMarkTwain DavidMorley TheCambridgeIntroductiontoCreativeWriting IraNadel TheCambridgeIntroductiontoEzraPound LelandS.Person TheCambridgeIntroductiontoNathanielHawthorne JohnPeters TheCambridgeIntroductiontoJosephConrad SarahRobbins TheCambridgeIntroductiontoHarrietBeecherStowe MartinScofield TheCambridgeIntroductiontotheAmericanShortStory EmmaSmith TheCambridgeIntroductiontoShakespeare PeterThomson TheCambridgeIntroductiontoEnglishTheatre,1660–1900 JanetTodd TheCambridgeIntroductiontoJaneAusten TheresaM.Towner TheCambridgeIntroductiontoWilliamFaulkner JenniferWallace TheCambridgeIntroductiontoTragedy The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner THERESA M. TOWNER UniversityofTexasatDallas CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521855464 © Theresa M. Towner 2008 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2008 ISBN-13 978-0-511-56855-8 eBook (Dawsonera) ISBN-13 978-0-521-85546-4 hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-67155-2 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. ForAlisonLeslieSloan –mygirl Contents Listofabbreviations page ix Preface xi Chapter 1 Life 1 Chapter 2 Works 10 Soldiers’Pay 12 Mosquitoes 14 Sartoris/FlagsintheDust 15 TheSoundandtheFury 16 AsILayDying 24 Sanctuary 28 LightinAugust 32 Pylon 37 Absalom,Absalom! 39 TheUnvanquished 46 IfIForgetThee,Jerusalem(TheWildPalms) 48 TheHamlet 51 GoDown,Moses 55 IntruderintheDust 62 RequiemforaNun 64 AFable 66 TheTown 68 TheMansion 69 TheReivers 72 Shortstories 75 Nonfiction 81 vii viii Contents Chapter 3 Contexts 85 Chapter 4 Critical reception 95 Notes 104 Guidetofurtherreading 107 Index 110
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