Approaches to Teaching Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

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. The novel lends itself to a range of interpretations! posing both challenges and opportunities. Part 1 of this volume offers an extensive guide to reference materials helpful for both reading and teaching the novel;the essays in part 2 examine the historical! geographical! and cultural aspects of the novel; consider it as a modernist narrative; address gender! materiality! language! and family dynamics; and discuss the novel in comparative and intertextual terms.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick (EDT)/ Zwinger Donnell, O&apos, Patrick (EDT)/ Zwinger O'Donnell
• Assisted by: Patrick O'Donnell (Editor), Lynda Zwinger (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2011
• EAN: 9781603290852
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-085-2
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature; Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature 115
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology