William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870136127 ISBN 13: 9780870136122

Publisher: Michigan State University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Few twentieth-century writers are as revered as William Faulkner. This collection brings together the best literary criticism on Faulkner from the last six decades, detailing the imaginative and passionate responses to his still-controversial novels. By focusing on the criticism rather than the works, Linda Wagner-Martin shows the primary directions in Faulkner’s influence on critics, writers, and students of American literature today. This invaluable volume reveals the patterns of change in literary criticism over time, while exploring the various critical streams—language theory, feminism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis—that have elevated Faulkner’s work to the highest rank of the American literary pantheon.

About this title

About the Author:

Linda Wagner-Martin holds the Hanes Chair of American Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has received Guggenheim, NEH, ACLS, and Rockefeller Fellowships and has served as president of the American literature section of the MLA, and as president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0870136127
• ISBN 13: 9780870136122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 421
• Editor: Wagner-Martin Linda