TY - BOOK AU - Volpe,Edmond L. TI - A reader's guide to William Faulkner: the short stories SN - 0815630476 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - PS3511.A86 Z9835 2004 U1 - 812/.54 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Syracuse, N.Y. PB - Syracuse University Press KW - Faulkner, William, KW - Short story KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309) and index N2 - Publisher description: The new guide, the first comprehensive book of its kind, offers analyses of all Faulkner's short stories, published and unpublished, that were not incorporated into novels or turned into chapters of a novel. Seventy-one stories receive individual critical analysis and evaluation. These discussions reveal the relationship of the stories to the novels and point up Faulkner's skills as a writer of short fiction. Although Faulkner often spoke disparagingly of the short story form and claimed that he wrote stories for money - which he did - Edmond L. Volpe's study reveals that Faulkner could not escape even in this shorter form his incomparable fictional imagination nor his mastery of narrative structure and technique ER -