The Sound and The Fury (Norton Critical Editions)

by Faulkner, William

• ISBN13: 9780393964813
• ISBN10: 0393964817
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minter's annotations are designed to assist the reader with obscure words and allusions.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	ix	(4)
Editor's Note	xiii
The Text of The Sound and the Fury	1	(200)
Backgrounds	201	(38)
William Faulkner
Appendix. Compson: 1699-1945	203	(13)
William Faulkner
Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi	216	(2)
William Faulkner
Selected Letters	218	(4)
To Mrs. Walter B. McLean, Wednesday [late Sept. 1927]	218	(1)
To Horace Liveright, sunday,-october [16 Oct. 1927]	218	(1)
To Horace Liveright, 30 november [1927]	219	(1)
To Mrs. Walter B. McLean, Wednesday [probably Oct. 1928]	219	(1)
To Alfred Harcourt, 18 Feb. 1929	220	(1)
To Ben Wasson, [early summer, 1929]	220	(1)
To Ben Wasson, [early summer, 1929]	221	(1)
Ben Wasson
[Publishing The Sound and the Fury]	222	(3)
William Faulkner
An Introduction for The Sound and the Fury	225	(3)
William Faulkner
An Introduction to The Sound and the Fury	228	(4)
William Faulkner
Interview with Jean Stein vanden Heuvel	232	(2)
William Faulkner
Class Conferences at the University of Virginia	234	(5)
Cultural and Historical Contexts	239	(24)
C. Vann Woodward
The Irony of Southern History	241	(2)
Robert Penn Warren
Faulkner: Past and Future	243	(3)
Richard H. King
A Southern Renaissance	246	(1)
Carolyn Porter
Faulkner's America	255	(8)
Criticism	263	(180)
Jean-Paul Sartre
On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of Faulkner	265	(7)
Irving Howe
Faulkner and the Negroes	272	(3)
Ralph Ellison
Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity	275	(3)
Olga W. Vickery
The Sound and the Fury: A Study in Perspective	278	(11)
Cleanth Brooks
Man, Time, and Eternity	289	(8)
Michael Millgate
The Sound and the Fury: [Story and Novel]	297	(13)
John T. Irwin
[Doubling and Incest in The Sound and the Fury]	310	(7)
Myra Jehlen
[Faulkner's Fiction and Southern Society]	317	(7)
Donald M. Kartiganer
[The Meaning of Form in The Sound and the Fury	324	(19)
David Minter
Faulkner, Childhood, and the Making of The Sound and the Fury	343	(15)
Warwick Wadlington
The Sound and the Fury: A Logic of Tragedy	358	(12)
John T. Matthews
The Discovery of Loss in The Sound and the Fury	370	(23)
Thadious M. Davis
[Faulkner's "Negro" in The Sound and the Fury]	393	(4)
Wesley Morris
Barbara Alverson Morris
A Writing Lesson: The Recovery of Antigone	397	(8)
Minrose C. Gwin
Hearing Caddy's Voice	405	(7)
Andre Bleikasten
The Quest for Eurydice	412	(18)
Philip M. Weinstein
"If I Could Say Mother": Construing the Unsayable about Faulknerian Maternity	430	(13)
Selected Bibliography	443