A Critical Companion to William Faulkner

A.Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Golay,Robert W. Hamblin

A Critical Companion to William Faulkner
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Facts On File Inc
Country
United States
Published
1 September 2008
Pages
562
ISBN
9780816064328

A Critical Companion to William Faulkner

A.Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Golay,Robert W. Hamblin

Critical Companion to William Faulkner - a major revision and expansion of
William Faulkner A to Z
- features more than 80,000 additional words. Character entries and Critical Commentary sections on Faulkner’s major works have been significantly expanded, and entirely new sections providing excerpts from contemporary reviews have been added. Other new features include further reading lists for Faulkner’s major novels and short stories as well as a detailed chronology of one of Faulkner’s greatest and most complicated works,
As I Lay Dying . This title covers such topics as: descriptions of characters in Faulkner’s fiction, such as Benjy and Quentin from
The Sound and the Fury ; details about Faulkner’s family, friends, colleagues, and critics; real and fictional places important to Faulkner’s life and literary development, from Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi to Hollywood; interviews and speeches given by Faulkner; and, ideas and events that influenced his life and works, including slavery, the Civil War, World War I, and civil rights.

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