As I lay dying : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

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"First published in 1930, As I Lay Dying has long been recognized not only as one of William Faulkner's greatest works, but also as the most accessible of his major novels. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 Corrected Text and is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations." "In addition to the text's essays and criticism, a chronology and a selected bibliography are also included."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780393931389
0393931382

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xiii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:

This edition is based on the 1985 corrected text published by The Library of America, and includes Valery Larbaud's never-before-translated preface to the first French edition
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

The text of As I lay dying
Backgrounds and contexts
Beside Addie's coffin / Margaret Cheney Dawson
Literature and less / Julia K.W. Baker
Morbidity in fiction / Clifton P. Fadiman
A troubled vision / Henry Nash Smith
The school of cruelty / Henry Seidel Canby
William Faulkner / Maurice-Edgar Coindreau
"Preface" to Tandis que j'agonise / Valery Larbaud
From New novels / Edwin Muir
Adolescence ; AS I lay dying ; "Introduction" to the modern library edition of Sanctuary ; An introduction for The sound and the fury ; Address upon receiving the Nobel prize for literature ; The Paris review interview ; Class conferences at the University of Virginia ; Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha county, Mississippi [map] ; Sample pages from the manuscript and carbon typescript of As I lay dying / William Faulkner
The Russian realists and southern literature / Carson McCullers
Benighted south / Fred Hobson
The hind tit / Andrew Nelson Lytle
The gudger house / James Agee
From Pills, petticoats and plows : the southern country store / Thomas D. Clark
Thirty-sixth biennial report of the Mississippi State Insane Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi. From July 1, 1925 to June 30, 1927 / C.D. Mitchell, M.S., Superintendent
Criticism
The dimensions of consciousness / Olga W. Vickery
Odyssey of the bundrens / Cleanth Brooks
Pride and nakedness : As I lay dying / Calvin Bedient
The setting / André Bleikasten
Death, grief, analogous form : As I lay dying / Eric Sundquist
[Mimetic voice] / Stephen M. Ross
Matricide and the mother's revenge : As I lay dying / Doreen Fowler
Between the family and the state : nomadism and authority in As I lay dying / Patrick O'Donnell
[A southern carnival] / Richard Gray
Addie in no man's land / John Limon
"By it I would stand r fall" : life and death in As I lay dying / Donald M. Kartiganer
William Faulkner : a chronology

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2009039276

Control Number:

1871548

Other Authors:

Gorra, Michael Edward

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