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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviations

I 1927–1932

1 Faulkner Discovers His Native Territory

Flags in the Dust (1926-1927; published 1973)

2 Faulkner’s First Great Novel: Anguish in the Genes

The Sound and the Fury (1929)

3 Destructive and Destroyed Being

The Coffin of Being

As I Lay Dying (1930)

A Grammar of Negative Being

Sanctuary (1931)

Demonic Incarnation and the Pestilential Word

Light in August (1932)

II 1935–1940

4 Verticality and Flight Passions

Pylon (1935)

5 Faulkner and the Civil War

Sutpen’s Vortex of Destruction

Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

Bayard’s Last Stand

The Unvanquished (1938)

6 Faulkner’s Dialectical Novel

The Wild Palms (1939)

7 Economic, Moral, and Sexual Passions in The Hamlet

The Hamlet (1940)

III 1942

8 Curing the Work of Time

Go Down, Moses (1942)

IV 1948–1962

9 Beginning the Work of Redemption

The Education of Chick Mallison

Intruder in the Dust (1948)

Redeeming the Earlier Works

Faulkner’s Paladin

Knight’s Gambit (1949)

10 December 1950

10 Cleansing the Temple

—Requiem for a Nun

Requiem for a Nun (1951)

11 War, Power, and The Book: Faulkner’s Fable for Tomorrow

A Fable (1944-1953; published 1954)

12 Social Comedy in Yoknapatawpha County

—The Town

The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959)

13 Serene and Comic: The Joyful Act of Closure

The Reivers (1962)

Notes

Bibliography

Index for Print Edition