本书选用了8篇视角新颖的评论文章，旨在对美国**小说家福克纳进行全面的介绍和研究。全书共分为两大部分：**部分由5篇评论构成，主要从大处着眼，以福克纳的小说背景为前提，向读者展示了当时的美国社会文化。第二部分则深入分析和探讨了福克纳的三篇巨著：《喧嚣与骚动

"Preface
List of Contributors
Chronology of William Faulkners Life and Works
Abbreviations for Texts Cited
Introducti
N_Part I. The Texts in the World
1 Faulkner and Modernism
2 Faulkner and Postmodernism
3 Faulkner and the Culture Industry
4 Faulkner from a European Perspective
5 Looking for a Master Plan:Faulkner,Paredes,and the Colonial and Postcolonial Subject
Part II.The World in the Texts
6 Racial Awareness and Arrested Development:
7 Race in Light in August:Wordsymbols and Obverse Reflections
8 Absalom,Absalom!:(Un)Making the Father"