Noel Polk, editor de William Faulkner / Noel Polk, editor of William Faulkner

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"Noel Polk e o principal editor das Edicoes Corrigidas dos romances de William Faulkner, nas quais examina minuciosamente os manuscritos e textos datilografados do autor a fim de restaurar, tanto quanto possivel, a intencao autoral, recuperando palavras, frases e pontuacao originais. Polk tem publicado inumeros estudos criticos sobre Faulkner, incluindo Intertextuality in Faulkner (Atas do Segundo Coloquio Internacional William Faulkner em Paris, 1982), New Essays on The Sound and The Fury, um volume da serie “O Romance Americano”, da Cambridge University Press, Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun: A Critical Study (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981), An Editorial Handbook for William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (New York: Garland Pub., 1985.), Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996), Reading Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (Glossary and commentary by Stephen M. Ross and Noel Polk (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996), entre outros. Durante vinte e sete anos foi professor do Departamento de Ingles da University of Southern Mississippi e editor da revista The Southern Quarterly. Polk tem feito conferencias na Europa e na Uniao Sovietica. [...]" "This prestigious scholar, editor and critic from the United States has kindly agreed to speak on his work with William Faulkner to the Brazilian Public. Polk is the author of many in-depth studies on Faulkner – “Children of the Dark House”, “Reading Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury”, “Intertextuality in Faulkner”, “New Essays on The Sound and The Fury”, among others; and the editor of the corrected editions of all of Faulkner’s novels for Random House, Library of America and Vintage International. He was the editor of The Southern Quarterly for around 30 years and more recently (2004), as he joined the Department of English at Mississippi State University, he became editor of the important journal The Mississippi Quarterly. Dr. Polk has also been lecturing at universities around the world, as in Japain, France and Soviet Union. [...]"