The Sound and the Fury

by Stephen M. Ross and Noel Polk

Book Overview

This volume guides readers through one of William Faulkner's most complex novels. By common consent The Sound and the Fury is a seminal document of twentieth-century literature. Almost from the beginning, it has been a litmus test for critical approaches--from New Criticism to biography and manuscript analysis.

In the past two decades, nearly all of the newest critical theories have come calling on Faulkner's novel. Yet it resists or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878059369
• ISBN13: 9780878059362
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"