Approaches to Teaching Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

Patrick O'Donnell is professor of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of John Hawkes; Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction; Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative; Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia in Contemporary U.S. Fiction; and The American Novel Now: Reading Contemporary American Fiction since 1980. He is the editor of New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49, the coeditor of Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction, and an associate editor of The Columbia History of the American Novel. He is currently working on a book about Henry James and contemporary cinema. Lynda Zwinger is associate professor of English at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Daughters, Fathers, and the Novel: The Sentimental Romance of Heterosexuality and of essays on Dickens, Henry James, queer theory, world literature, and popular film.

"This volume of essays on As I Lay Dying will fill a longtime need for teachers and students of Faulkner. The editors have provided us with an aid that should help both new teachers and veterans to teach it more fully and effectively." --Gail L. Mortimer, professor emerita of English, University of Texas, El Paso