Detective Dupin Reads William Faulkner Solutions to Six Yoknapatawpha Mysteries

by Chappell, Charles

• ISBN13: 9781573091657
• ISBN10: 1573091650
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: International Scholars Publications

Summary

This work is a fascinating blend of literary interpretation in narrational form. Within the framework of a fiction a critical study takes shape that is basedon solid up to to date research (ninety-six entries appear in list of works cited) and will be of value to both serious Faulkner scholars and general academic readers alike, particularly those interested in mystery and detective fiction, southern literature, the works of Poe and, of course, the Yoknapatawpha novels.

Table of Contents

Introducing Dupin and Company
Meet Mister Narrator and His Burg	3	(4)
Plaint of the Perplexed Professor	7	(8)
Walking Across Murryville	15	(16)
Our Ratiocinist Revealed	31	(22)
The Case of the Furtive Memphis Lawyer in Sanctuary
Bullish Back-Porch Boogie	53	(12)
Tapping the Stein and the Spine	65	(15)
Ballads at the Old Cafe	80	(19)
The Case of Ms. Quentin's Second-Story Job in The Sound and the Fury
Campus Shaft	99	(11)
Blackboard Jumble	110	(8)
Take Me Out to the Mules' Game	118	(4)
Mysteries of One Kind or Another	122	(5)
Risky Business at Twilight Time	127	(30)
The Case of Quentin Compson's Suicide Site in The Sound and the Fury
Hospital Street Blues	157	(5)
Bridge Over Tempting Waters	162	(15)
Tracking the Troubled Mississippian	177	(22)
The Case of Addie Bundren's Mathematical Bequest in As I Lay Dying
Bare-Chested Running Choir	199	(11)
Count No Count	210	(17)
New Slant on an Old Testament	227	(30)
The Case of Faulkner's Arch-Villain in Light in August
Neatsy Keen	257	(8)
Head of the Crass	265	(34)
The Case of the Infatuated Final Narrator in Light in August
Simple and Odd	299	(11)
Gets Around, Gets Around, A Body Gets Around	310	(31)
Epilogue	341	(2)
Notes	343	(14)
Works Cited	357