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The Sound and the Fury: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions),Used
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury William Faulkners provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important Englishlanguage novels of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors while focusing new attention on both the novels contemporary reception and its rich cultural and historical contexts. The text for the Third Edition is again that of the corrected text scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the novel. David Minters annotations, designed to assist readers with obscure words and allusions, have been retained.Contemporary Reception, new to the Third Edition, considers the broad range of reactions to Faulkners extraordinary novel on publication. Michael Gorras headnote sets the stage for assessments by Evelyn Scott, Henry Nash Smith, Clifton P. Fadiman, Dudley Fitts, Richard Hughes, and Edward Crickmay. New materials by Faulkner (The Writer and His Work) include letters to Malcolm Cowley about The Portable Faulkner and Faulkners Nobel Prize for Literature address. Cultural and Historical Contexts begins with Michael Gorras insightful headnote, which is followed by seven seminal considerationsfive of them new to the Third Editionof southern history, literature, and memory. Together, these worksby C. Vann Woodward, Richard H. King, Richard Gray, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, William James, and Henri Bergsonprovide readers with important contexts for understanding the novel.Criticism represents eightyfive years of scholarly engagement with The Sound and the Fury. New to the Third Edition are essays by Eric Sundquist, Noel Polk, Doreen Fowler, Richard Godden, Stacy Burton, and Maria TruchanTataryn.A Chronology of Faulkners life and work is newly included along with an updated Selected Bibliography.
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