The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner [Hardcover]

This new Companion offers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.This book offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. John T. Matthews provides an introduction to the new ways Faulkner is being read in the twenty-first century, and bears witness to his continued importance as an American and world writer.This book offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. John T. Matthews provides an introduction to the new ways Faulkner is being read in the twenty-first century, and bears witness to his continued importance as an American and world writer.The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety of topics in Faulkners fiction, such as its reflection of the concurrent emergence of cinema, social inequality and rights movements, modern ways of imagining sexual identity and behavior, the Souths history as a plantation economy and society, and the persistent effects of traumatic cultural and personal experience. This new Companion provides an introduction to the fresh ways Faulkner is being read in the twenty-first century, and bears witness to his continued importance as an American and world writer.1. New media ecology Julian Murphet; 2. History's dark markings: Faulkner and film's racial representation Peter Lurie; 3. 'What moves at the margin': William Faulkner and race Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman; 4. Faulkner and biopolitics Patricia E. Chu; 5. As I Lay Dying and the modern aesthetics of ecological crisis Susan Scott Parrish; 6. Faulkner and trauma: ol£I