Senior College Class - Reading Faulkner: As I Lay Dying

Join Chuck Peek for this entertaining class! Faulkner wrote a variety of works, most always in the modernist style. That means we, the readers, are sharing in the experience. Faulkner called As I Lay Dying his ‘tour de force,’ saying if he had to risk his reputation on just one work, it would be this. Sometimes referred to as the first novel of the Great Depression, it places a macabre funeral journey into the contexts both of rural Depression-era America and the mythic journeys of ancient literature, asking us, the readers, for both our sense of irony and deep compassion as well as inviting discussion. Along the way, Faulkner the Southwestern humorist emerges! Join us in the journey!