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As I Lay Dying
A Norton Critical Edition
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This edition is ideal for students, scholars, and readers interested in modernist literature and Southern American culture. The extensive critical apparatus and annotations provide valuable insights for academic study and deeper literary appreciation.
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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. These introductions carefully frame the issues presented, with particular attention to As I Lay Dying's place in Faulkner's literary life. Contemporary Reception includes a selection of seven reviews, featuring those by Julia K. W. Baker, Henry Nash Smith, and Valery Larbaud. The Writer and His Work examines Faulkner's own claims regarding the composition of the novel and his changing opinions over time. This section includes sample pages from the manuscript, his Nobel Prize address, and additional writings by Faulkner on Yoknapatawpha County. Cultural Context reprints seven essays and advertisements — three selections new to the Second Edition — along with other materials that address questions of Southern motherhood, Agrarianism, and the Southern grotesque.
Criticism begins with the editor's introduction to As I Lay Dying's critical history and scholarly reception. Eleven critical essays are included, five of which are new to the Second Edition, by Olga W. Vickery, Cleanth Brooks, Eric Sundquist, Doreen Fowler, Dorothy J. Hale, Patrick O'Donnell, 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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ISBN: 9780393614534
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 August 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Edition: Second Edition
Contributors:
- Edited by Michael Gorra
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 373g
Pages: 442
About the Author
William Faulkner (1897–1962) is the Nobel Prize–winning 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 Faulkner’s 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.
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