Eye of the Storm

Eye of the Storm: William Faulkner¿s Flags in the Dust, upholds William Faulkner¿s artistic compromise for material necessity. It studies the effect of the editing on themes, imagery, plot structure, transitions, centers, openings, endings, characters and the socio-historical publication contexts of William Faulkner¿s Flags in the Dust to draw delightfully startling conclusions. Faulkner allowed his agent to edit and significantly reduce his third novel, Flags in the Dust, published as Sartoris in 1929. Until his death, Faulkner never referred to his third novel as Sartoris, but as Flags, finally published posthumously in 1973. Honoring Faulkner¿s greatness by refusing to limit his writing to the constraints of a single critical discipline, Eye of the Storm synthesizes several theories in relation to their relevant interaction with the dimensions of Faulkner¿s writing. This original and flexible response to exigent critical theories also offers a method for all comparative manuscript studies ¿ literary or otherwise.