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Critical essays on William Faulkner : the Compson family / [edited by] Arthur F. Kinney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical essays on American literaturePublication details: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1982.Description: xi, 433 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 081618464X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.52 19
LOC classification:
  • PS3511.A86 Z777 1982
Contents:
Introduction / Arthur F. Kinney -- The Kingdom of God. The kid learns. Mayday. An introduction to The sound and the fury I and II, A prefatory note for 'appendix : Compson, 1699-1945' / William Faulkner -- A family breaks up / Lyle Saxon -- Modernist manner over matter / Winfield Townley Scott -- Decayed gentility / Anon. -- Provincialism and Mr. Faulkner / Henry Nash Smith -- Told by an idiot / R.N.L. -- Tragic frustration / Basil Davenport -- Hardly worth while / Clifton P. Fadiman -- Introduction to The sound and the fury / Richard Hughes -- A study in madness / Derek Patmore -- Pathological delinquency / Anon. -- A disturbing beauty / G.W. Stonier -- Tainted blood / Anon. -- Nothing very pleasant / Orgill Mackenzie -- Preface to The sound and the fury / Maurice Edgar Coindreau -- On William Faulkner's The sound and the fury / Evelyn Scott -- Yoknapatawpha from a historical perspective / Irving Howe -- The sound and the fury : the tragedy of the lack of love / Carvel Collins -- The breakup of the Compsons / Cleanth Brooks -- The Compson legacy / Wendell V. Harris -- Order and disorder in The sound and the fury / H.P. Absalom -- The composition of The sound and the fury / Michael Millgate -- The ordeal of consciousness : psychological aspects of evil in The sound and the fury / Michel Gresset -- The eyes of innocence : Faulkner's the kingdom of God / Charles D. Peavy -- The beautiful one : Caddy Compson as heroine of The sound and the fury / Cahterine B. Baum -- Nihilism in Faulkner's The sound and the fury / John V. Hagopian -- The recollection and the blood : Jason's role in The sound and the fury / Duncan Aswell -- Quentin Compson : self-portrait of a young artist's emotions / Jackson J. Benson -- Profane time, sacred time, and Confederate time in The sound and the fury / Arthur Geffen -- The magician's wand : Faulkner's Compson appendix / Mary Jane Dickerson -- Faulkner's most splendid failure / Andre Bleikasten -- Voice in that evening sun : a study of Quentin Compson / May Cameron Brown -- Faulkner's narrative poetics in The sound and the fury / Arthur F. Kinney -- Narration as creative act : the role of Quentin Compson in Absalom, Absalom! / Thomas Daniel Young -- Candance / Alan Cheuse -- The disappearance of Quentin Compson / John W. Hunt -- Quentin Compson and Faulkner's drama of the generations / Donald M. Kartiganer -- In defense of Caroline Compson / Joan Williams -- Family conflict in The sound and the fury / John Earl Bassett.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction / Arthur F. Kinney -- The Kingdom of God. The kid learns. Mayday. An introduction to The sound and the fury I and II, A prefatory note for 'appendix : Compson, 1699-1945' / William Faulkner -- A family breaks up / Lyle Saxon -- Modernist manner over matter / Winfield Townley Scott -- Decayed gentility / Anon. -- Provincialism and Mr. Faulkner / Henry Nash Smith -- Told by an idiot / R.N.L. -- Tragic frustration / Basil Davenport -- Hardly worth while / Clifton P. Fadiman -- Introduction to The sound and the fury / Richard Hughes -- A study in madness / Derek Patmore -- Pathological delinquency / Anon. -- A disturbing beauty / G.W. Stonier -- Tainted blood / Anon. -- Nothing very pleasant / Orgill Mackenzie -- Preface to The sound and the fury / Maurice Edgar Coindreau -- On William Faulkner's The sound and the fury / Evelyn Scott -- Yoknapatawpha from a historical perspective / Irving Howe -- The sound and the fury : the tragedy of the lack of love / Carvel Collins -- The breakup of the Compsons / Cleanth Brooks -- The Compson legacy / Wendell V. Harris -- Order and disorder in The sound and the fury / H.P. Absalom -- The composition of The sound and the fury / Michael Millgate -- The ordeal of consciousness : psychological aspects of evil in The sound and the fury / Michel Gresset -- The eyes of innocence : Faulkner's the kingdom of God / Charles D. Peavy -- The beautiful one : Caddy Compson as heroine of The sound and the fury / Cahterine B. Baum -- Nihilism in Faulkner's The sound and the fury / John V. Hagopian -- The recollection and the blood : Jason's role in The sound and the fury / Duncan Aswell -- Quentin Compson : self-portrait of a young artist's emotions / Jackson J. Benson -- Profane time, sacred time, and Confederate time in The sound and the fury / Arthur Geffen -- The magician's wand : Faulkner's Compson appendix / Mary Jane Dickerson -- Faulkner's most splendid failure / Andre Bleikasten -- Voice in that evening sun : a study of Quentin Compson / May Cameron Brown -- Faulkner's narrative poetics in The sound and the fury / Arthur F. Kinney -- Narration as creative act : the role of Quentin Compson in Absalom, Absalom! / Thomas Daniel Young -- Candance / Alan Cheuse -- The disappearance of Quentin Compson / John W. Hunt -- Quentin Compson and Faulkner's drama of the generations / Donald M. Kartiganer -- In defense of Caroline Compson / Joan Williams -- Family conflict in The sound and the fury / John Earl Bassett.