Cover -- Copyright and Licence -- Title Page -- Contents -- A Note on the Author -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Faulkner's Life and Work -- 1. 1 'Yoknapatawpha County' -- 1.2 Early Fiction -- 1.3 The Chronicles -- 1.4 Novels of Contemporary Life -- 1.5 The 'Commitment' Writings -- 1.6 The Composition of The Sound and the Fury -- 1.7 The 'Dark House' -- 1.8 Introduction to the form of The Sound and the Fury -- 1.9 Summary of the sections -- 1.10 Race in The Sound and the Fury -- Chapter 2: Contexts -- 2.1 The South -- 2.2. Oxford -- 2.3 Southern Religion -- 2.4. Views of the South by Southerners -- 2.5 The Falkners -- 2.6 Literary Influences before Modernism -- Chapter 3: Faulkner and Modernism -- 3.1 Modernism at 'Ole Miss'' and in New Orleans -- 3.2 Predecessors to the Modernist Novel -- 3.3 New York 1920-21 -- 3.4 Faulkner and the 'Lost Generation' -- 3.5 France 1925-6 -- 3.6 Modernist Influences: Philosophy and Psychology -- Chapter 4: Reading The Sound and the Fury -- 4.1 Reading the title -- 4.2 The Idiot's Tale -- 4.3 The Suicide's Tale -- 4.4 The Nasty Boy's Tale -- 4. 5 (Who) Is Caddy? -- 4.6 The Racist's Tale? -- Appendix I: Faulkner's Commentaries on The Sound and the Fury -- A Short Bibliography -- Glossary of Psychological Terms: -- Humanities Insights.