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.
"Backgrounds" begins with the appendix Faulkner wrote in 1945 and sometimes referred to as another telling of The Souud and the Fury, and includes a selection of Faulkner's letters, excerpts from two Faulkner interviews, a memoir by Faulkner's friend Ben Wasson, and both versions of Faulkner's 1933 "Introduction" to the novel.
"Cultural and Historical Contexts" presents four different perspectives, two of them new to the Second Edition, on the South's place in history. Taken together, these works by C. Vann Woodward, Richard H. King, Carolyn Porter, and Robert Penn Warren provide the reader with valuable contexts for understanding the novel.
"Criticism" includes seventeen essays on The Sound and the Fury that collectively trace changes in the way we have viewed this novel over the last four decades. Among the critics represented (six of whom are new to the Second Edition) are Jean-Paul Sartre, Ralph Ellison, Olga W. Vickery, Cleanth Brooks, Michael Millgate, John Irwin, Myra Jehlen, David Minter, John Matthews, Thadious M. Davis, Wesley Morris, Minrose G. Gwin, Andrd Bleikasten, and Philip M. Weinstein. The Selected Bibliography has been thoroughly revised for this edition.
【目录】
Preface to the Second Edition
Editor's Note
The Text of The Sound and the Fury
Backgrounds
William Faulkner·Appendix. Compson: 1699-1945
William Faulkner·lefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
William Faulkner * Selected Letters
To Mrs. Walter B. McLean, Wednesday [late Sept. 1927]
To Horace Liveright, sunday,--october [16 Oct. 1927]
To Horace Liveright, 30 november [1927]
To Mrs. Walter B. McLean, Weduesday [probably Oct. 1928]
To Alfred Harcourt, 18 Feb. 1929
To Ben Wasson, Iearly summer, 1929]
To Ben Wasson, [early summer, 1929]
Ben Wasson·[Publishing The Sound and the Fury]
William Faulkner·An Introduction for The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner·An Introduction to The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner·Interview with lean Stein vanden Heuvel
William Faulkner·Class Conferences at the University of Virginia
Cultural and Historical Contexts
C. Vann Woodward·The Irony of Southern History
Robert Penn Warren·Faulkner: Past and Future
Richard H. King·A Southern Renaissance
Carolyn Porter·Faulkner's America
Criticism
lean-Paul Sartre·On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of Faulkner
Irving Howe·Faulkner and the Negroes
Ralph Ellison·Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity
Olga W. Vickery·The Sound and the Fury: A Study in Perspective
Cleanth Brooks·Man, Time, and Eternity
Michael Millgate·The Sound and the Fury: [Story and Novel]
John T. Irwin·[Doubling and Incest in The Sound and the Fury]
Myra Jehlen·[Faulkner's Fiction and Southern Society]
Donald M. Kartiganer·[The Meaning of Form in] The Sound and the Fury
David Minter·Faulkner, Childhood, and the Making of The Sound and the Fury
Warwick Wadlington·The Sound and the Fury:A Logic of Tragedy
John T. Matthews·The Discovery of Loss in The Sound and the Fury
Thadious M. Davis·[Faulkner's "Negro" in The Sound and the Fury]
Wesley Morris with Barbara Alverson Morris·A Writing Lesson: The Recovery of Antigone
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