William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

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Harold Bloom
Infobase Publishing, 2008 - 230 páginas
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner s fourth novel, was his first attempt at a wholly self-conscious style. Faulkner s willingness to experiment affords his readers no stable perspective from which to comprehend the decline of the Compson family. The informative title is filled with new critical essays on Faulkner s masterpiece.
 

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Introduction
1
The Composition of The Sound and the Fury
3
Rev Shegogs Powerful Voice
31
An Easter Without Resurrection?
41
Construing the Unsayable About Faulknerian Maternity
67
All Things Become Shadowy Paradoxical
81
The Dynamics of Alcoholism in The Sound and the Fury
111
Quentins Recognition of His Guilt
131
The Man with the Gay Red Tie in Faulkners The Sound and the Fury
181
William Faulkners Sources of Agency in The Sound and the Fury
197
Chronology
211
Contributors
215
Bibliography
217
Acknowledgments
221
Index
223
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Themes in The Sound and the Fury
149

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Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and has also focused his attentions on history and the Bible. He has written over twenty books and edited countless others. He is one of the most famous critics in the world and considered an expert in many fields. In 2010 he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts. His works include Fallen Angels, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of The King James Bible. Harold Bloom passed away on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, at the age of 89.

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