The Sound and the Fury: A Norton Critical Edition

The Sound and the Fury: A Norton Critical Edition
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â€œA man is the sum of his misfortunes.â€
â€•William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
William Faulknerâ€™s provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors while focusing new attention on both the novelâ€™s contemporary reception and its rich cultural and historical contexts. The text for the Third Edition is again that of the corrected text scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the novel. David Minterâ€™s annotations, designed to assist readers with obscure words and allusions, have been retained.

â€œContemporary Reception,â€ new to the Third Edition, considers the broad range of reactions to Faulknerâ€™s extraordinary novel on publication. Michael Gorraâ€™s headnote sets the stage for assessments by Evelyn Scott, Henry Nash Smith, Clifton P. Fadiman, Dudley Fitts, Richard Hughes, and Edward Crickmay. New materials by Faulkner (â€œThe Writer and His Workâ€) include letters to Malcolm Cowley about The Portable Faulkner and Faulknerâ€™s Nobel Prize for Literature address. â€œCultural and Historical Contextsâ€ begins with Michael Gorraâ€™s insightful headnote, which is followed by seven seminal considerationsâ€•five of them new to the Third Editionâ€•of southern history, literature, and memory. Together, these worksâ€•by C. Vann Woodward, Richard H. King, Richard Gray, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, William James, and Henri Bergsonâ€•provide readers with important contexts for understanding the novel.

â€œCriticismâ€ represents eighty-five years of scholarly engagement with The Sound and the Fury. New to the Third Edition are essays by Eric Sundquist, Noel Polk, Doreen Fowler, Richard Godden, Stacy Burton, and Maria Truchan-Tataryn.

A Chronology of Faulknerâ€™s life and work is newly included along with an updated Selected Bibliography.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W W Norton & Co Inc
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 38538851
ReleaseDate 2014-02-11
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780393912692

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W W Norton & Co Inc
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	38538851
ReleaseDate	2014-02-11
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780393912692

The Sound and the Fury: A Norton Critical Edition

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