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OverviewThis Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 corrected text and is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. Backgrounds and Contexts is divided into three sections, each of which includes a concise introduction by Michael Gorra that carefully frames the issues presented, with particular attention to As I Lay Dying's place in Faulkner's literary life. Contemporary Reception reprints American, English, and French reviews by Clifton Fadiman, Henry Nash Smith, Edwin Muir, and Maurice Coindreau, among others, along with Valery Larbaud's never-before-translated preface to the first French edition of the novel. The Writer and His Work examines Faulkner's claim to have written the novel in six weeks without changing a word. It includes his comments on the book's composition along with his later thoughts on and changing opinions of it, sample pages from the manuscript, his Nobel Prize address, and the little-known short story in which he first used the title. Cultural Context reprints an essay by Carson McCullers and an excerpt from James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men along with other materials that address questions of Southern Agrarianism and the Southern grotesque. Criticism begins with the editor's introduction to As I Lay Dying's critical history and scholarly reception. Eleven major essays are provided by Olga W. Vickery, Cleanth Brooks, Calvin Bedient, Andr? Bleikasten, Eric Sundquist, Stephen M. Ross, Doreen Fowler, Patrick O'Donnell, Richard Gray, John Limon, and Donald M. Kartiganer. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William Faulkner , Michael Gorra (Smith College)Publisher: WW Norton & Co Imprint: WW Norton & Co Edition: Critical edition Volume: 0 Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.330kg ISBN: 9780393931389ISBN 10: 0393931382 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 19 January 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Replaced By: 9780393614534 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Inactive Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text The Text of As I Lay Dying Backgrounds and Contexts CONTEMPORARY RECEPTION 1. Margaret Cheney Dawson * Beside Addie's Coffin 2. Julia K. W. Baker * Literature and Less 3. Clifton P. Fadiman * Morbidity in Fiction 4. Henry Nash Smith * A Troubled Vision 5. Henry Seidel Canby * The School of Cruelty 6. Maurice-Edgar Coindreau * William Faulkner 7. Valery Larbaud * Preface to Tandis que j'agonise 8. Edwin Muir * From New Novels THE WRITER AND HIS WORK 1. William Faulkner * Adolescence 2. William Faulkner * As I Lay Dying 3. William Faulkner * Introduction to the Modern Library edition of Sanctuary 4. William Faulkner * An Introduction for The Sound and the Fury 5. William Faulkner * Address upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature 6. William Faulkner * The Paris Review Interview 7. William Faulkner * Class Conferences at the University of Virginia 8. William Faulkner * Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi [Map] 9. William Faulkner * Sample pages from the manuscript and carbon typescript of As I Lay Dying CULTURAL CONTEXT 1. Carson McCullers * The Russian Realists and Southern Literature 2. Fred Hobson * Benighted South 3. Andrew Nelson Lytle * The Hind Tit 4. James Agee * The Gudger House 5. Thoms D. Clark * From Pills, Petticoats and Plows: The Southern Country Store 6. C. D. Mitchell, M.D. * Thirty-Sixth Biennial Report of the Mississippi State Insane Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi. From July 1, 1925 to June 30, 1927 CRITICISM 1. Olga W. Vickery * The Dimension of Consciousness 2. Cleanth Brooks * Odyssey of the Bundrens 3. Calvin Bedient * Pride and Nakedness: As I Lay Dying 4. Andre Bleikasten * The Setting 5. Eric Sundquist * Death, Grief, Analogous Form: As I Lay Dying 6. Stephen M. Ross * Mimetic Voice 7. Doreen Fowler * Matricide and the Mother's Revenge: As I Lay Dying 8. Patrick O'Donnell * Between the Family and the State: Nomadism and Authority in As I Lay Dying 9. Richard Gray * A Southern Carnival 10. John Limon * Addie in No Man's Land 11. Donald M. Kartiganer * By It I Would Stand or Fall : Life and Death in As I Lay Dying William Faulkner: A Chronology Selected BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationWilliam Faulkner (1897-1962) is the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, among other works. These two novels were originally published by Liveright in the 1920s. Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and, for his work as a reviewer, of the Balakian Award from the National Book Critics Circle. His books include The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War; Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of on American Masterpiece, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography; The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany; After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie; The English Novel at Mid-Century; and, as editor, The Portable Conrad and the Norton Critical Editions of The Sound and the Fury and The Portrait of a Lady. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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