English 390: Faulkner

Spring, 2006

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Professor Olmsted

Rice 108

Phone: 775-8582

e-mail: John.Olmsted@oberlin.edu

Office hours: TuTh 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Texts:

William Faulkner, Flags in the Dust/Sartoris (1926-1929)

______________, The Sound and the Fury (1929) [Norton Critical Edition, ed. David Minter, Second Edition]

______________, Light in August (1932)

______________, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

______________, The Unvanquished (1934-1937)

______________, Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner (1930-1955)

Class Schedule:

Week of

February 6 Introduction

“A Rose for Emily” (1930)

“Honor” (1930)

“Red Leaves” (1930)

“Dry September” (1931)

“That Evening Sun” (1931)

http://www6.semo.edu/cfs/tfn_online/emily_barloon2.htm

February 13 Flags in the Dust

(reading journal due February 14)

February 20 Flags in the Dust

(reading journal due February 21)

“There was a Queen” (1933)

February 27 The Sound and the Fury

March 6 The Sound and the Fury

March 13 Faulkner and the Critics

(Paper due March 16)

March 20 Light in August

March 27 SPRING BREAK

April 3 Light in August

April 10 Light in August

(reading journal due April 13)

Absalom,Absalom!

April 17 Absalom, Absalom!

April 24 Absalom, Absalom!

May 1 The Unvanquished

May 8 Concluding Discussions

FINAL PAPER DUE MAY 11

Participants in this class are required to attend all classes, come to class on time, take an active part in discussion, and hand in assigned work when it is due.

All papers should be delivered in printed form only. Late papers will be downgraded.

Two papers, each ten to fourteen pages in length, and three reading journals, each three pages long, are required.

There is a useful Selected Bibliography of critical books and articles on Faulkner in the Norton edition of The Sound and the Fury, pp. 443-446.

The best places to start your WWW research on Faulkner:

· William Faulkner on the Web http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html

· The William Faulkner Foundation (Rennes, France) http://www.uhb.fr/faulkner

· Faulkner Resources on the Web http://www.semo.edu/cfs/

· The Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University http://www6.semo.edu/cfs/

· Teaching Faulkner Newsletter http://www.semo.edu/cfs/teaching/index.htm

· William Faulkner Filmography http://www.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Faulkner,+William

· The Faulkner Journal http://www.english.ucf.edu/faulkner/

· William Faulkner Society of Japan http://www.senshu-u.ac.jp/~thb0559/faulkner.htm

The William Faulkner Collection http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/collections/faulkner/

Hypertext edition of The Sound and the Fury http://www.usask.ca/english/faulkner/