"Not only do these essays provide us with terrific readings of Faulkner's great novel, but they also allow us to peer into the sometimes murky depths of current theory and practice....[A]s interesting for the critical desires they express as for their extraordinary readings of The Sound and the Fury." James M. Mellard, Mississippi Quarterly

• Preface; 1. Introduction Noel Polk; 2. Faulkner's text which is not one Dawn Trouard; 3. Now I can write: Faulkner's novel of invention Donald M. Kartiganer; 4. Quentin Compson: Tyrrhenian vase or crucible of race Richard Godden; 5. Trying not to say: a primer of the language of The Sound and the Fury Noel Polk; Notes; Bibliography.

"Not only do these essays provide us with terrific readings of Faulkner's great novel, but they also allow us to peer into the sometimes murky depths of current theory and practice....[A]s interesting for the critical desires they express as for their extraordinary readings of The Sound and the Fury." James M. Mellard, Mississippi Quarterly

• Preface; 1. Introduction Noel Polk; 2. Faulkner's text which is not one Dawn Trouard; 3. Now I can write: Faulkner's novel of invention Donald M. Kartiganer; 4. Quentin Compson: Tyrrhenian vase or crucible of race Richard Godden; 5. Trying not to say: a primer of the language of The Sound and the Fury Noel Polk; Notes; Bibliography.

"Not only do these essays provide us with terrific readings of Faulkner's great novel, but they also allow us to peer into the sometimes murky depths of current theory and practice....[A]s interesting for the critical desires they express as for their extraordinary readings of The Sound and the Fury." James M. Mellard, Mississippi Quarterly

• Preface; 1. Introduction Noel Polk; 2. Faulkner's text which is not one Dawn Trouard; 3. Now I can write: Faulkner's novel of invention Donald M. Kartiganer; 4. Quentin Compson: Tyrrhenian vase or crucible of race Richard Godden; 5. Trying not to say: a primer of the language of The Sound and the Fury Noel Polk; Notes; Bibliography.