Reader's Guide to William Faulkner: The Short Stories

The new guide, the first comprehensive book of its kind, offers analyses of all Faulkner's short stories, published and unpublished, that were not incorporated into novels or turned into chapters of a novel.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 moneywhich he didEdmond 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.

Author: Edmond Volpe
Publisher: Syracuse University Publications in Continuin
Published: 06/01/2004
Pages: 332
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.12w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780815630470

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2004 pg. 664

About the Author
Edmond L. Volpe, professor emeritus at the City College of New York, served as president of the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. He has edited and written fifteen books (including A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner: The Novels, also published by Syracuse University Press) and published many articles on American literature and higher education.