2010-2011 Academic Catalog

Feb 05, 2025

2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 231 - William Faulkner

Type of Course: Seminar

This course will focus on the Yoknapatawpha fiction of William Faulkner, those novels and stories set in “the little postage stamp of native soil” that he created and developed over more than three decades. As probably the strongest American novelist of his generation, certainly the one most clearly canonical, Faulkner invites consideration from many perspectives and, indeed, his fiction has been the chosen subject for some very good commentary by critics and scholars of almost every poststructuralist, as well as more traditional perspective. We will consider Faulkner as Modernist, as American writer, as Southerner and in any other way our discussion leads us. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (C-3) requirement.

Cross Listed: ENG 331

Instructor: Mr. Bassett

When Offered: Offered 2009-2010

Faculty: John Bassett, Ph.D. – President