Download or read book Approaches to Teaching Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury written by Stephen Hahn and published by Modern Language Assn of Amer. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of William Faulkner have become Pt. of the undergraduate canon in the decades since he received the Nobel Prize in 1950. While many of Faulkner's novels and stories are assigned to high school and college students, the editors of this volume focus on The Sound and the Fury because the novel is representative of Faulkner's best writing and accessible to many levels of teaching and learning. The novel also lends itself to exploration of many topics, including biographical fiction, the decline of the Old South and the rise of the New South, the influence of American and European literary traditions, and the treatment of subjectivity and language. ... Publisher description.