Light in August by William Faulkner

Light in August by William Faulkner

'Taylor’s edition is an invaluable resource for students and researchers. Faulkner’s own commentary, and that of leading historians and critics, will help readers sense the many historical and cultural tributaries converging in this great novel. The economic, racial, and gendered conditions of Depression-era Mississippi, along with the vibrant milieu of literary modernism, become visible in this Norton Critical Edition.” — Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan

"The Norton Critical Edition of Light in August appears at a key juncture, and Melanie Benson Taylor’s editorship points this up keenlyThe novel and the scholarship included here attest to the centrality of race in Yoknapatawpha, a fact well-known in the Faulkner community, yet wider understanding of which this volume will ensure. Benson Taylor has done more than skillfully edit a compendium. She has made a volume that is essential to ongoing efforts to teach and write about the increasingly race-conscious writer Faulkner became following The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying in the mid-1930s and beyond." -- Peter Lurie, University of Richmond

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. Melanie Benson Taylor is Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. She is Executive Editor of Native South. She is author of The Indian in American Southern Literature, Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause, and Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1919-2002. Her edited volumes include The Cambridge Companion to the Native American Novel, The Cambridge History of Native American Literature, and, with Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny, I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories.

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ISBN 13	9780393422603
ISBN 10	0393422607
Title	Light in August
Author	William Faulkner
Series	Norton Critical Editions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2022-10-30
Number of pages	632
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