Description
Book SynopsisHis organization of the works and his supplementary material provide both students and scholars with a concise overview of Faulkner studies from its New Critical beginnings through its current engagements with theory and history.
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Table of ContentsPreface
Part I: Myth and Religion
Chapter 1. Christian Symbols in Light in August
Chapter 2. Light in August: The Calvinism of William Faulkner
Chapter 3. The Role of Myth in Absalom, Absalom!
Part II: Temporality, History, and Trauma
Chapter 4. Enigmas of Being in As I Lay Dying
Chapter 5. "If Was Existed": Faulkner's Prophets and the Patterns of History
Chapter 6. On Lamentation and the Redistribution of Possessions: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and the New South
Chapter 7. "So I, who had never had a war . . .": William Faulkner, War, and the Modern Imagination
Chapter 8. Accounting for Slavery: Economic Narratives in Morrison and Faulkner
Part III: Gender and Race: Affect, the Body, and Identity
Chapter 9. Faulkner's Garden: Woman and the Immemorial Earth
Chapter 10. "The Beautiful One": Caddy Compson as Heroine of The Sound and the Fury
Chapter 11. Devious Channels of Decorous Ordering: A Lover's Discourse in Absalom, Absalom!
Chapter 12. Linda Snopes Kohl: Faulkner's Radical Woman
Chapter 13. Faulkner's Return to the Freudian Father: Sanctuary Reconsidered
Chapter 14. The Picture of Charles Bon: Oscar Wilde's Trip through Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha
Chapter 15. Extremities of the Body: The Anoptic Corporeality of As I Lay Dying
Part IV: Modernity and Modernist Technique
Chapter 16. Faulkner's Pylon and the Structure of Modernity
Chapter 17. Gothicism in Sanctuary: The Black Pall and the Crap Table
Chapter 18. Faulkner's Storied Novel: Go Down, Moses and the Translation of Time
Chapter 19. From Place to Place in The Sound and the Fury: The Syntax of Interrogation
Appendix A. Alternative Grouping of Essays
Appendix B. Chronological Listing of All Essays on Faulkner Published in MFS
List of Contributors
Index
