New Essays on Light in August

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-521-30814-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 341 g

Reihe: The American Novel

Light in August (1932) is one of William Faulkner's most important, most challenging, and most widely studied novels, demanding to be approached from many angles and with a variety of critical and scholarly skills. Here five distinguished critics offer just such a range of approaches, discussing the novel in terms of its composition and its place in Faulkner's oeuvre; its structure and narrative techniques; its relation to the religious, racial, and sexual assumptions of the society it depicts; its presentation of women and handling of gender-related issues; and the social and moral implications of the 'hero' status accorded to a figure like Joe Christmas. Each contributor has had a double ambition: to write clearly and directly, thus making the volume accessible to the widest possible audience, and to write freshly and originally, so as to enhance - even for those thoroughly familiar with the existing criticism - understanding and appreciation of Light in August itself and of Faulkner's work as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Millgate, Michael

Elliot, Emory

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series editor's preface; 1. Introduction Michael Millgate; 2. 'A Novel: Not an Anecdote': Faulkner's Light in August Michael Millgate; 3. Plots and counterplots: the structure of Light in August Martin Kreiswirth; 4. Light in August: the closed society and its subjects André Bleikasten; 5. The women of Light in August Judith Bryant Wittenberg; 6. On the difference between prevailing and ending Alexander Welsh; Notes on contributors; Selected bibliography.