William Faulkner: The Contemporary Reviews

by M. Thomas Inge

Overview

This book, the first comprehensive collection of contemporary published reactions to the writing of William Faulkner from 1926 to 1962, documents the response of reviewers to specific works, and chronicles the development of Faulkner's reputation among the nation's book reviewers. The material presented here clarifies the development of Faulkner's literary career and provides a fuller understanding of the part played by book reviewing in the sales, promotion, and success of American literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521383776
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/24/1995
Series:	American Critical Archives , #5
Pages:	604
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.57(h) x 1.73(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Acknowledgements; The Marble Faun; Soldiers' Pay; Mosquitoes; Sartoris; The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Sanctuary; These Thirteen; Salmagundi; Miss Zilphia Gant; Light in August; A Green Bough; Doctor Martino and Other Stories; Pylon; Absalom! Absalom!; The Unvanquished; The Wild Palms; The Hamlet; Go Down, Moses and Other Stories; The Portable Faulkner; Intruder in the Dust; Knight's Gambit; Collected Stories; Notes on a Horsethief; Requiem for a Nun; Mirrors of Chartres Street; A Fable; The Faulkner Reader; Big Woods; The Town; New Orleans Sketches; Three Famous Short Novels; The Mansion; The Reivers.

Editorial Reviews

"Inge has provided a most helpful introduction that interprets the major patterns of this portion of Faulkner criticism with discernment and scholarly insight. Assuming that the 'American Critical Archives' series will continue the high standard represented here, one looks forward to future installments." Richmond Times-Dispatch

"...this volume of early reactions to one of the most challenging parts of the American canon can be ignored only at the peril of losing what Hans-Georg Gadamer might call 'the horizon of expectation,' the ideas and attitudes contemporary with the creation of Faulkner's art. Every once in a while a book re-creates context so well that it becomes part of the context. Cambridge has achieved this. Undergraduates should use this significant book; all graduate students will have to." Choice

"...an excellent reference source and a handy teaching tool." Popular Culture Association in the South Newsletter

"All libraries serving serious students of literature should have these volumes." Q. Grigg, Choice

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