As I Lay Dying (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
442
Utgivningsdatum
2022-08-30
Upplaga
Second Edition
Förlag
WW Norton & Co
Medarbetare
Gorra, Michael (smith College) (red.)
Dimensioner
216 x 130 x 25 mm
Vikt
373 g
ISBN
9780393614534

As I Lay Dying

A Norton Critical Edition

Häftad,  Engelska, 2022-08-30
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This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 corrected text and is accompanied by newly updated and expanded explanatory annotations and an introduction by Michael Gorra. Backgrounds and Contexts is divided into three sections, each of which includes a concise introduction by Michael Gorra that carefully frames the issues presented, with particular attention to As I Lay Dyings place in Faulkners literary life. Contemporary Reception includes a selection of seven reviews, including those by Julia K. W. Baker, Henry Nash Smith, and Valery Larbaud. The Writer and His Work examines Faulkners own claims regarding the composition of the novel and his changing opinions over time, sample pages from the manuscript, his Nobel Prize address, and additional writings by Faulkner on Yoknapatawpha County. Cultural Context reprints seven essays and advertisementsthree selections new to the Second Editionalong with other materials that address questions of Southern motherhood, Agrarianism, and the Southern grotesque. Criticism begins with the editors introduction to As I Lay Dyings critical history and scholarly reception. Eleven critical essays are includedfive new to the Second Editionby Olga W. Vickery, Cleanth Brooks, Eric Sundquist, Doreen Fowler, Dorothy J. Hale, Patrick ODonnell, John T. Matthews, John Limon, Richard Godden, Susan Scott Parrish, and Erin E. Edwards. A chronology and a selected bibliography are also included.
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William Faulkner (18971962) is the Nobel Prizewinning author of The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, among other works. These two novels were originally published by Liveright in the 1920s. Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and, for his work as a reviewer, of the Balakian Award from the National Book Critics Circle. His books include The Saddest Words: William Faulkners Civil War; Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of on American Masterpiece, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography; The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany; After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie; The English Novel at Mid-Century; and, as editor, The Portable Conrad and the Norton Critical Editions of The Sound and the Fury and The Portrait of a Lady.