Volpe, Edmond Loris.

A reader's guide to William Faulkner : the short stories / Edmond L. Volpe. - 1st ed. - Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2004. - xv, 315 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index.

Publisher description: The new guide, the first comprehensive book of its kind, offers analyses of all Faulkner's short stories, published and unpublished, that were not incorporated into novels or turned into chapters of a novel. Seventy-one stories receive individual critical analysis and evaluation. These discussions reveal the relationship of the stories to the novels and point up Faulkner's skills as a writer of short fiction. Although Faulkner often spoke disparagingly of the short story form and claimed that he wrote stories for money - which he did - Edmond L. Volpe's study reveals that Faulkner could not escape even in this shorter form his incomparable fictional imagination nor his mastery of narrative structure and technique.

0815630476 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2004005262


Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 --Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.


Short story--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

PS3511.A86 / Z9835 2004

812/.54