On Faulkner

Series Introduction vii

Faulkner's Wilderness (1959) / Otis B. Wheeler 1

Colonel Thomas Sutpen as Existentialist Hero (1962) / William J. Sowder 11

Procrustean Revision in Go Down, Moses (1965) / Marvin Klotz 26

Absalom, Absalom!: The Discovery of Values (1965) / Donald M. Kartiganer 42

"Pantaloon": The Negro Anomaly as the Heart of Go Down, Moses (1972) / Walter Taylor 58

The Time of Myth and History in Absalom, Absalom! (1973) / Patricia Tobin 73

The Value and Limitations of Faulkner's Fictional Method (1975) / Brent Harold 92

Faulkner, Childhood, and the Making of The Sound and the Fury (1979) / David Minter 110

The Sound and the Fury: A Logic of Tragedy (1981) / Warwick Wadlington 128

Narrative Styles (1981) / J. E. Bunselmeyer 143

"The Whole Burden of Man's History of His Impossible Heart's Desire": The Early Life of Faulkner (1982) / Jay Martin 162

Embedded Story Structures in Absalom, Absalom! (1983) / Philip J. Egan 185

Centers, Openings, and Endings: Some Constants (1984) / Martin Kreiswirth 201

The Mirror, the Lamp, and the Bed: Faulkner and the Modernists (1985) / Virginia V. Hlavsa 214

The Illusion of Freedom in The Hamlet and Go Down, Moses (1985) / Margaret M. Dunn 235

Predestination and Freedom in As I Lay Dying (1989) / Charles Palliser 252

The Symbolist Connection (1987) / Alexander Marshall, III 269

Index 283