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Informationen zum Autor Patrick O'Donnell is professor of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of John Hawkes ; Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction ; Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative ; Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia in Contemporary U.S. Fiction ; and The American Novel Now: Reading Contemporary American Fiction since 1980 . He is the editor of New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49, the coeditor of Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction , and an associate editor of The Columbia History of the American Novel . He is currently working on a book about Henry James and contemporary cinema. Lynda Zwinger is associate professor of English at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Daughters, Fathers, and the Novel: The Sentimental Romance of Heterosexuality and of essays on Dickens, Henry James, queer theory, world literature, and popular film. Klappentext As I Lay Dying is considered by many both the most enigmatic and the most accessible of Faulkner’s major works. It is also the most dramatic; the journey of the Bundrens, a family of poor farmers in the South in the early twentieth century, unfolds like a one-act play, full of natural disaster and human madness. Taught in high school, college, and graduate courses, the novel lends itself to a wide range of interpretations, posing both challenges and opportunities for the instructor. Part 1 of this Approaches volume, “Materials,” offers an extensive guide to reference materials helpful for both reading and teaching As I Lay Dying. In Part 2, “Approaches,” fourteen essays examine the historical, geographic, and cultural aspects of the novel; consider it as a modernist narrative; address such issues as gender, materiality, language, and family dynamics; and discuss the novel in comparative and intertextual terms. Teachers will find suggestions for course design, in-class exercises, and assignments to help students explore a variety of themes, including death and mourning, the role of the mother, work, and the relation between nature and culture....
