"“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntles ..."
"Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him one of America’s finest writers of the twentieth century. The four novels in this Library of America collection display an astonishing range of characters and treatments in his Depression-era fiction.As I Lay Dying (1930) is a combination of comedy, horror, and compassion, a narrative woven from the inarticulate desires of a peas ..."
Children of the Dark House(2nd Edition) Text and Context in Faulkner by NoelPolk Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1998 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-57806-103-7, ISBN: 1-57806-103-2
"This book by a major scholar of William Faulkner's writings collects choice selections of his Faulkner criticism from the past fifteen years. Its publication underscores the significance of his indispensable work in Faulkner studies, both in criticism and in the editing of Faulkner's texts. Here, Polk's focus is mainly upon the context of Freudian themes, expressly in the works written between 1927 and 1932, the period in which Faulkne ..."
Intruder in the dust A concordance to the novel (The Faulkner concordances) by William Faulkner, NoelPolk Hardcover, 620 Pages, Published 1983 by Faulkner Concordance Advisory Board, With The Support Of The Faculty Development And Research Fund, U.S. Military Academy And The National Endowment For The Humanities ISBN-13: 978-0-8357-0621-6, ISBN: 0-8357-0621-4
Children of the Dark House Text and Context in Faulkner: Text and Context in Faulkner by NoelPolk 288 Pages, Published 1996 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-605-2, ISBN: 1-60473-605-4
"It is clearly a maternal tree and may suggest that Horace was mothered to death
as a child under its iron, impervious bosom. Not incidentally, Narcissa seems well
on her way to doing this to her son, especially in the Original Text, and Horace
thinks Ruby is overmothering her child too when he accuses her of holding it too
much, though to be sure the reader of the revised text only cannot understand
why Horace thinks this. Another ..."
Children of the Dark House Text and Context in Faulkner by NoelPolk Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1996 by Univ Pr Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-867-9, ISBN: 0-87805-867-2
William Faulkner(1st Edition) Novels 1926-1929: Soldiers' Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust / The Sound and the Fury (Library of America) by William Faulkner, NoelPolk, Joseph Blotner Hardcover, 1,170 Pages, Published 2006 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-931082-89-1, ISBN: 1-931082-89-8
"The Library of America edition of the novels of William Faulkner culminates with this volume presenting his first four, each newly edited, and, in many cases, restored with passages that were altered or (in the case of Mosquitoes) expurgated by the original publishers. This is Faulkner as he was meant to be read. In these four novels we can track Faulkner's extraordinary evolution as, over the course of a few years, he discovers and ma ..."
"Inge, 87-89. Sullivan, Ruth. "The Narrator in A Rose for Emily.'" Journal of
Narrative Technique 1 (1971): 159-78. West, Ray B., Jr. "Atmosphere and Theme
in Faulkner's A Rose for Emily.'" William Faulkner: Four Decades of Criticism. Ed.
Linda Welshimer Wagner. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1973. 192-98. Film
Adaptation of "A Rose for Emily" A Rose for Emily. Screenplay by H. Kaye Dyal.
Dir. Lyndon Chubbuck. Pyramid Films, 1982. ..."
"The years 1942 to 1954 saw William Faulkner’s rise to literary celebrity—sought after by Hollywood, lionized by the critics, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1950 and the Pulitzer and National Book Award for 1954. But, despite his success, he was plagued by depression and alcohol and haunted by a sense that he had more to achieve—and a finite amount of time and energy to achieve it.This Library of America volume collects the novels written duri ..."
"Introduction Faulkner between the texts / Michel Gresset Space between Sanctuary / Noel Polk "Cet affreux gout d'encre" : Emma Bovary's Ghost in Sanctuary / Andre Bleikasten Of sailboats and kites : the "Dying fall" in Faulkner's Sanctuary and Beckett's Murphy / Michel Gresset Oratory and the dialogical in Absalom, Absalom! / Stephen M. Ross Wild Palms : degraded culture, devalued texts / Pamela Rhodes & Richard Godden Forgetting ..."
Natchez Before 1830 (The L.O. Crosby, Jr., memorial lectures in Mississippi culture) by NoelPolk Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 1989 by Univ Pr Of Mississippi (Txt) ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-380-3, ISBN: 0-87805-380-8
"This informative study representing a variety of scholarly perspectives reveals the cultural, historical, economic, political, and even geographical evolution of Old Natchez, which until now has been given little attention. In some ways, Natchez is among the best-known of American towns. Because of its strategic location high atop the Mississippi River bluffs, it became, in the early years of this country's development, the cultural an ..."
Intruder in the Dust(1st Edition) Typescript Draft, Typesetting Copy, and Miscellaneous Material (William Faulkner Manuscripts, No. 17) by William Faulkner, NoelPolk Hardcover, 733 Pages, Published 1987 by Garland Publishing, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-8240-6838-7, ISBN: 0-8240-6838-6
"First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."
Walking Safari Or, the Hippo Highway and Other Poems by NoelPolk Paperback, 98 Pages, Published 2012 by Texas Review Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-74-8, ISBN: 1-933896-74-4
"The poems in the first part of this book are set in and/or inspired by my walking safari in the South Luangwa Valley of Zambia in the summer of 2010."
"This is the hardcover edition of You Would Not Believe What Watches: Suttree and Cormac McCarthy's Knoxville. This handsome volume is identical in content to the paperback edition."