New Essays on Light in August

by Michael Millgate (Editor)

Overview

In a series of essays written especially for this volume, five distinguished critics offer a range of approaches, discussing the novel in terms of its composition and position in Faulkner's career, its structure and narrative techniques, and its relation to the religious, racial, and sexual assumptions of the society it represents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521313322
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/26/1987
Series:	The American Novel
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.35(d)

Table of Contents

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.