A Rose for Emily

by Faulkner, William; Polk, Noel; Kirszner, Laurie G.; Mandell, Stephen R.; Polk, Noel

• ISBN13: 9780155074712
• ISBN10: 0155074717
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-02
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location.

Table of Contents

About the Series	vi
Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
``A Rose for Emily'': Faulkner's Modern Gothic Masterpiece	2	(9)
An introduction to the story, its themes, and its setting in both traditional and modern contexts.
Literature	11	(18)
About the Author	12	(17)
``A Rose for Emily''	15	(8)
Matter Deleted from ``A Rose for Emily''	23	(2)
Discussion Questions	25	(1)
Research Questions	26	(3)
Secondary Sources	29	(108)
Faulkner in the University: Class Conferences at the University of Virginia 1957--1958. New York: Random, 1959, Faulkner responds to students' questions about the story	30	(3)
Gwynn, Frederick L.
Joseph Blotner
``The Telltale Hair: A Critical Study of William Faulkner's `A Rose for Emily.' '' Arizona Quarterly (1972): 301-.Heller provides an overview of the story's narrative and themes	33	(14)
Heller, Terry.
``Styles of Reading.'' Poetics Today 3.1 (Winter 1982): 207--15. Dillon uses ``A Rose for Emily'' to demonstrate how readers respond to a work of literature	47	(15)
Dillon, George L.
``The Narrator in `A Rose for Emily.' '' The Journal of Narrative Technique 1.3 (Sept. 1971): 159--78. Sullivan discusses conventional ``point of view'' and the narrator's participation in the story he or she is telling	62	(20)
Sullivan, Ruth.
``Irony and Isolation: Narrative Distance in Faulkner's `A Rose for Emily.' '' The Faulkner Journal 3.2 (Spring 1993): 3--12. Rodman argues that the narrator is in most ways a man as isolated from the community he describes as Emily herself and that his distance from that community is an important part of the story's meaning	82	(9)
Rodman, Isaac.
``How Readers Make Meaning.'' College Literature 9 (Fall 1982): 207--15. Crosman suggests that readers' own experiences and principles help them make meaning of a work of literature	91	(10)
Crosman, Robert.
``A Rose for Emily,' by William Faulkner.'' Short Story Theory at a Crossroads. Eds. Susan Lohafer and Jo Ellen Clarey. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1989. Brown reflects on the significance of the differences between the ``sequential'' manner in which Emily's life in Jefferson occurred and the ``configurational'' manner in which the narrator reports it	101	(9)
Brown, Suzanne Hunter.
``Emily Grierson's Oedipus Complex: Motif, Motive, and Meaning in Faulkner's `A Rose for Emily.' '' Studies in Short Fiction 17.4 (Fall 1980): 397--405. Scherting uses Freudian psychoanalysis to explore Faulkner's story	110	(9)
Scherting, Jack.
``A Rose for `A Rose for Emily.' '' The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978. Fetterley explores the patriarchal assumptions behind the town's and the narrator's attitudes toward Emily's life and death	119	(8)
Fetterley, Judith.
``Of Time and Its Mathematical Progression: Problems of Chronology in Faullkner's `A Rose for Emily.' '' Studies in Short Fiction 29.2 (Spring 1992): 195--204. Moore examines Faulkner's original manuscript to untangle the story's chronology	127	(10)
Moore, Gene M.
Sample Student Research Paper	137	(10)
Bibliography	147	(8)
A bibliography of sources for understanding ``A Rose for Emily,'' its background, and various interpretations of it.
Works by William Faulkner	148	(1)
Works about William Faulkner	149	(6)
Appendix: Documenting Sources	155	(14)
A Guide to MLA Documentation Style	156	(1)
Parenthetical References in the Text	157	(3)
The List of Works Cited	160	(7)
Explanatory Notes	167	(2)
Credits	169