Reading Faulkner: Light in August

Explaining the world of William Faulkners Light in August is the primary goal of this glossary. Like other books in this series it explains identifies and comments on many elements that a reader may find unfamiliar or difficult. These include the basic features of Faulkners fictional town of Jefferson and Yoknapatawpha County colloquialisms dialects folk customs and sayings farm implements biblical verses and geographic and demographic details. Written especially for puzzled readers teachers of Faulkner graduate students and interpretive scholars the Reading Faulkner books offer terms and explications that reveal the richly cultural world in Faulkners major works. Page references throughout are keyed to the definitive editions of Faulkner published by Library of America and to the Vintage editions prepared from the Library of America tapes. Hugh M. Ruppersburg head of the English department at the University of Georgia is the author of Voice and Eye in Faulkner Fiction.