Critical Essays on William Faulkner

by Kinney, Arthur F.

• ISBN13: 9780816173143
• ISBN10: 0816173141
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-02-01
• Publisher: Twayne Pub

Summary

The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work. Essays include writings from the author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from the time they were writing, through the present day.

Each volume includes:

-- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches and sorting out the schools of thought

-- The most influential reviews and the best reprinted scholarly essays

-- A section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subject's contemporaries

-- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series

-- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments

-- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews

-- A name and subject index

Table of Contents

General Editor's Note
Publisher's Note
Textual Notes
Introduction	p. 1
Evangeline	p. 49
Sutpen I	p. 71
William Faulkner's Revolt in the Earth	p. 77
The Myth of the Cavalier	p. 85
Forms of Plantation Acculturation	p. 90
Myth Against History: The Case of Southern Womanhood	p. 92
Southern Women, Southern Households	p. 95
Miscegenation	p. 97
The War for States' Rights	p. 103
Witchcraft in Mississippi	p. 107
Poe in Mississippi	p. 114
The Itinerary of an Ideological Dream	p. 117
Mr. Faulkner Adds a Cubit	p. 119
Reviewing Reviews	p. 120
Sutpen and Southern History	p. 121
Fathers and Sons	p. 129
The Sutpens and the Blacks	p. 134
Fathers and Strangers: From Patriarchy to Counterfamily in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!	p. 143
The Significance of Thomas Sutpen	p. 151
Sutpen as Patriarch	p. 156
A Brief for Thomas Sutpen	p. 162
"We have waited long enough": Judith Sutpen and Charles Bon	p. 170
The Judith-Henry-Charles Triangle: The Innermost Kernel of Faulkner's Civil War in the Heart	p. 180
Silence, Indirection, and Judith Sutpen	p. 193
What Clytie Knew	p. 200
The Bon Lineage	p. 207
Eulalia Bon's Untold Story	p. 216
Charles Bon: The New Orleans Myth Made Flesh	p. 221
Rosa Coldfield as Daughter: Another of Faulkner's Lost Children	p. 227
The Other Coldfields: Gender, Commerce, and the Exchange of Bodies in Absalom, Absalom!	p. 239
App.: The Sutpen-Bon-Coldfield Genealogy	p. 251
App.: Chronology and Genealogy: The Authority of Fiction and the Fiction of Authority	p. 252
App.: The Biblical Background of Absalom, Absalom!	p. 259
App.: What We Know about Thomas Sutpen and His Children	p. 268
App.: What Quentin Saw "Out There"	p. 275
Index	p. 279
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