Approaches to Teaching Faulkner's as I Lay Dying
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As I Lay Dying is considered by many both the most enigmatic and the most accessible of Faulkner's major works. The novel lends itself to a range of interpretations, posing both challenges and opportunities. Part 1 of this volume offers an extensive guide to reference materials helpful for both reading and teaching the novel;the essays in part 2 examine the historical, geographical, and cultural aspects of the novel; consider it as a modernist narrative; address gender, materiality, language, and family dynamics; and discuss the novel in comparative and intertextual terms.

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As I Lay Dying is considered by many both the most enigmatic and the most accessible of Faulkner's major works. The novel lends itself to a range of interpretations, posing both challenges and opportunities. Part 1 of this volume offers an extensive guide to reference materials helpful for both reading and teaching the novel;the essays in part 2 examine the historical, geographical, and cultural aspects of the novel; consider it as a modernist narrative; address gender, materiality, language, and family dynamics; and discuss the novel in comparative and intertextual terms.
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Patrick O'Donnell is professor of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of John Hawkes; Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction; Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative; Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia in Contemporary U.S. Fiction ; and The American Novel Now: Reading Contemporary American Fiction since 1980. He is the editor of New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49, the coeditor of Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction, and an associate editor of The Columbia History of the American Novel. He is currently working on a book about Henry James and contemporary cinema. Lynda Zwinger is associate professor of English at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Daughters, Fathers, and the Novel: The Sentimental Romance of Heterosexuality and of essays on Dickens, Henry James, queer theory, world literature, and popular film.