Approaches to Teaching Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury

by Hahn, Stephen; Kinney, Arthur F.

• ISBN13: 9780873527385
• ISBN10: 0873527380
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series
Preface to the Volume
Introduction	p. 1
Materials
"Through the Fence, between the Curling Flower Spaces": Teaching the First Section of The Sound and the Fury	p. 27
"Trying to Say": Sound and Silence, Subject and Community in The Sound and the Fury	p. 38
Confronting Race in Faulkner: Strategies for Answering Difficult Questions	p. 44
Using Faulkner's Introduction to Teach The Sound and the Fury	p. 49
Private Writing and the Published Novel: Letters and Gifts	p. 58
The Compson Appendix as an Aid to Teaching The Sound and the Fury	p. 64
Order and Flight: Teaching The Sound and the Fury Using the Appendix	p. 68
Teaching The Sound and the Fury with Freud	p. 73
Giving Jung a Crack at the Compsons	p. 79
Teaching Religion and Philosophy in The Sound and the Fury	p. 84
Nihilists and Their Relations: A Nietzschean Approach to Teaching The Sound and the Fury	p. 89
History on the Margins and in the Mainstream: Teaching The Sound and the Fury in Its Southern Historical Context	p. 96
Contextualizing The Sound and the Fury: Sex, Gender, and Community in Modern American Fiction	p. 101
Teaching The Sound and the Fury in the Context of European Modernism	p. 108
Teaching The Sound and the Fury as a Postimpressionist Novel	p. 114
Text and Context: Teaching The Sound and the Fury after Deconstruction	p. 122
"Barn Burning" and The Sound and the Fury as an Introduction to Faulknerian Style and Themes	p. 128
Caddy and Nancy: Race, Gender, and Personal Identity in "That Evening Sun" and The Sound and the Fury	p. 134
Teaching Narrative as Meanig in "A Justice" and The Sound and the Fury	p. 140
"A Rose for Emily": The Faulknerian Construction of Meaning	p. 144
Desires Become Words: A Formal and Thematic Approach to Teaching "Dry September" and The Sound and the Fury	p. 150
Contributors and Survey Participants	p. 155
Works Cited: Books and Articles	p. 157
Works Cited: Audiovisual Materials	p. 168
Index	p. 171
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