Contemporary Reception, new to the Third Edition, considers the broad range of reactions to Faulkner\'s extraordinary novel on publication.
A Chronology of Faulkner\'s life and work is newly included along with an updated Selected Bibliography..
New to the Third Edition are essays by Eric Sundquist, Noel Polk, Doreen Fowler, Richard Godden, Stacy Burton, and Maria Truchan-Tataryn.
Criticism represents eighty-five years of scholarly engagement with The Sound and the Fury .
King, Richard Gray, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, William James, and Henri Bergson--provide readers with important contexts for understanding the novel.
Vann Woodward, Richard H.
Together, these works--by C.
Cultural and Historical Contexts begins with Michael Gorra\'s insightful headnote, which is followed by seven seminal considerations--five of them new to the Third Edition--of southern history, literature, and memory.
New materials by Faulkner (The Writer and His Work) include letters to Malcolm Cowley about The Portable Faulkner and Faulkner\'s Nobel Prize for Literature address.
Fadiman, Dudley Fitts, Richard Hughes, and Edward Crickmay.
Michael Gorra\'s headnote sets the stage for assessments by Evelyn Scott, Henry Nash Smith, Clifton P.
Contemporary Reception, new to the Third Edition, considers the broad range of reactions to Faulkner\'s extraordinary novel on publication
