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- For the "corrected text" shown here, scholar Noel Polk used Faulkner's own ribbon typescript setting copy, corrected to account for his revisions in proof, his typing errors, and other clear inconsistencies and mistakes.
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As explained below, Noel consulted Faulkner's original typescripts to correct editorial changes made when the books were first published. Because of Noel's painstaking work, readers now have Faulkner's masterful novels close to how he originally wrote them.
For the "corrected text" shown here, scholar Noel Polk used Faulkner's own ribbon typescript setting copy, corrected to account for his revisions in proof, his typing errors, and other clear inconsistencies and mistakes.
Noel also did the editorial work for the corrected editions of all of William Faulkner's novels published in The Library of America and as individual volumes by Faulkner's publisher Random House.
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Walking Safari or, The Hippo Highway and Other Poems(January, 2012)Outside the Southern Myth: A Memoir(1997) Jackson: University Press of MississippiChildren of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner(1996) Jackson: University Press of MississippiReading Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury (1996) Glossary and commentary by Stephen M. Ross and Noel Polk. Jackson: University Press of MississippiNoel Polk was born in Picayune, Mississippi, on February 23, 1943. He received his B.A. in 1965 and his M.A.in 1966 from Mississippi College. In 1970 he earned his Ph.D.from the University of South Carolina. For twenty-seven years Po;k was Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi and the editor ofThe Southern Quarterly. His ea...
Mississippi State’s page for Noel Polk, professor emeritus and editor ofThe Mississippi Quarterly.The novel was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough and established his literary reputation, but was controversial given its themes. It is said Faulkner claimed it was a " potboiler ", written purely for profit, but this has been debated by scholars and Faulkner's own friends.
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- 1931
Aug 31, 2012 · William Faulkner and The Sound and the Fury: It’s good that he didn’t wait “until publishing grows up,” a previous Reader’s Almanac post. “Living Outside History,” an excerpt in The American Scholar from Noel Polk’s memoir of growing up in Picayune, Mississippi.
That’s perhaps why his novels are narratives that do not narrate, that stop and spin and go back and fill in, begin again; they live in and by Faulkner’s denial of sequentiality: they exist to deny logic and cohesion, from the fairly simple stream-of-consciousness disruptions of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and Sanctuary, to the ...
