The Portable Faulkner

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The Portable Faulkner is a 1946 anthology edited by Malcolm Cowley that presents a curated selection of William Faulkner’s fiction, helping to establish his reputation and highlight the interconnected world of his Yoknapatawpha County stories.

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instanceOf anthology
book
short story collection
aimedTo highlightInterconnectedNatureOfFaulknersFiction
presentFaulknersFictionInChronologicalOrderOfYoknapatawphaHistory
associatedWithAuthor William Faulkner
authorOfIncludedWorks William Faulkner
containsWorksBy William Faulkner
containsWorksSetIn Yoknapatawpha County
contributedTo revivalOfWilliamFaulknersReputation
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
editor Malcolm Cowley
editorBirthName Malcolm Cowley
editorialApproach curatedSelection
reorderedTextsToClarifyYoknapatawphaChronology
editorNationality American
editorWroteIntroduction Malcolm Cowley
genre Southern Gothic
modernist literature
hasCanonicalStatus importantFaulknerAnthology
hasFormat print
hasInfluenceOn FaulknerScholarship
collegeTeachingOfFaulkner
includesWork Absalom, Absalom!
As I Lay Dying
Go Down, Moses
Light in August
Sanctuary
The Sound and the Fury
shortStoriesByWilliamFaulkner
influenced criticalReceptionOfWilliamFaulkner
intendedAudience generalReaders
literaryCritics
studentsOfAmericanLiterature
language English
mediaType book
notableFor makingFaulknersWorkMoreAccessibleToGeneralReaders
shapingMid20thCenturyUnderstandingOfFaulkner
partOfSeries The Portable Library
publicationYear 1946
publisher The Viking Press
surface form: Viking Press
subject AmericanSouth
familyAndMemory
raceAndHistoryInTheAmericanSouth
timePeriodOfReception mid20thCentury

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Yoknapatawpha County mapPublishedIn The Portable Faulkner