As I Lay Dying

Name: As I Lay Dying
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ISBN: 9780393931389

ISBN-10: 0393931382

ISBN-13: 9780393931389

Edition: 2009

Authors: William Faulkner, Michael Gorra, Michael Gorra, William Faulkner

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List price: $18.02
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/4/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.10" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Michael Gorra teaches English at Smith College. His books include After Empire, The Bells in Their Silence, and, as editor, the Norton Critical Edition of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.



Introduction


Note on the Text


The Text of As I Lay Dying


Backgrounds and Contexts


Contemporary Reception



Beside Addie's Coffin




Literature and Less




Morbidity in Fiction




A Troubled Vision




The School of Cruelty




William Faulkner




"Preface" to Tandis que j'agonise




From New Novels



The Writer and His Work



Adolescence




As I Lay Dying




Introduction to the Modern Library edition of Sanctuary




An Introduction for The Sound and the Fury




Address upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature




The Paris Review Interview




Class Conferences at the University of Virginia




Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi [Map]




Sample pages from the manuscript and carbon typescript of As I Lay Dying



Cultural Context



The Russian Realists and Southern Literature




Benighted South




The Hind Tit




The Gudger House




From Pills, Petticoats and Plows: The Southern Country Store




Thirty-Sixth Biennial Report of the Mississippi State Insane Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi. From July 1, 1925 to June 30, 1927



Criticism



The Dimension of Consciousness




Odyssey of the Bundrens




Pride and Nakedness: As I Lay Dying




The Setting




Death, Grief, Analogous Form: As I Lay Dying




Mimetic Voice




Matricide and the Mother's Revenge: As I Lay Dying




Between the Family and the State: Nomadism and Authority in As I Lay Dying




A Southern Carnival




Addie in No Man's Land




"By It I Would Stand or Fall": Life and Death in As I Lay Dying



A Chronology



Selected Bibliography