A Companion to Faulkner Studies
Publishing Details
A Companion to Faulkner Studies
By (Author) Charles Peek
Edited by Robert W. Hamblin
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Greenwood Press
30th June 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
813.52
Physical Properties
432
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
1049g
Description
Expert contributors survey and evaluate critical approaches to Faulkner's works William Faulkner is one of the most widely read and studied American writers. His works have also generated a vast body of scholarship and elicited criticism from a wide range of approaches. Because of its size, scope, and diversity, accessing that scholarship has become difficult for scholars, students, and general readers alike. This reference work comprehensively overviews the present state of Faulkner studies. The volume includes chapters written by expert contributors. Each chapter defines a particular critical approach and surveys the contributions of that approach to Faulkner studies. Some of the approaches covered are archetypal, biographical, feminist, historical, and psychological, among others. The book closes with a selected, general bibliography and glossary of critical terms. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the field Each chapter is devoted to a particular critical approach. The volume comprehensively overviews Faulkner scholarship Includes a glossary of critical terms Surveys the whole body of Faulkner's works
Reviews
"[A]chieves the laudable goals the editors have set."-Journal of American Studies
[A]chieves the laudable goals the editors have set.-Journal of American Studies
The field of Faulkner studies seems so broad and horizonless that even experienced scholars need a map to plot its various ways. Peek and Hamblin, along with 12 other contributors, provide a most useful set of charts. The essays guide readers through the broad fields of criticism and theory: mythic, archetypal, historical, formalist, modernist, postmodernist, cultural, psychological, feminist, gender, rhetorical, reader response, popular culture, textual, and thematic....An excellent complement to the editors' A William Faulkner Encyclopedia, this volume will be a handy starting point for research. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.-Choice
This is a useful and demanding book... which would probably enlarge the range of most undergraduate students.-English
"This is a useful and demanding book... which would probably enlarge the range of most undergraduate students."-English
"The field of Faulkner studies seems so broad and horizonless that even experienced scholars need a map to plot its various ways. Peek and Hamblin, along with 12 other contributors, provide a most useful set of charts. The essays guide readers through the broad fields of criticism and theory: mythic, archetypal, historical, formalist, modernist, postmodernist, cultural, psychological, feminist, gender, rhetorical, reader response, popular culture, textual, and thematic....An excellent complement to the editors' A William Faulkner Encyclopedia, this volume will be a handy starting point for research. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."-Choice
Author Bio
CHARLES A. PEEK is Professor of English and Director of the Prairie Institute at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. ROBERT W. HAMBLIN is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University.
