A selective list of literary criticism for William Faulkner, favoring signed articles by known scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites
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Argiro, Thomas. "As though we were kin": Faulkner's black-Italian chiasmus MELUS, Fall, 2003 "A telling if scandalous revelation offered by Joel Williamson relates a significant feature of William Faulkner's ambivalent relationship to his deeply conflicted personal and cultural history"
Atkinson, Ted. A review of Faulkner and the Great Depression (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2006). Reviewed in The Mississippi Quarterly, Winter, 2005 by Caroline Miles
Atsma, Helen R. Calvinistic Visions of Time and Humanity in The Sound and the Fury, the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Baker, Charles R. A Certain Slant of Light: Teaching Light in August Through Hightower’s Epiphany The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (10/8/2004)
Banerjee, Supurna. "Black vs. White and New vs. Old in Go Down, Moses." The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (9/30/2004)
Barloon, Jim. "A Rose for Homer? The Limitations of a Reader-Response Approach to Faulkner’s 'A Rose for Emily'" ["A Rose for Miss Emily"]. The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (10/8/2004)
Blotner, Joseph. Writing William Faulkner's Biography," The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Byrne, Mary Ellen. "Town and Time: Teaching Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" ["A Rose for Miss Emily"]. The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (10/8/2004)
Byrne, Mary Ellen. "Barn Burning": A Story from the '30s, The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (9/30/2004)
Carvill, Caroline. Narrative Complexity, Voice, and Paper Assignments, the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Cass, Barbara Ann. "The Right Tools for the Job: Cash Bundren’s Tool Box in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying." The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (9/30/2004)
Ceylan, Deniz Tarba "Blurred Action, Blurred Narration: Three Scenes Of Hurry From William Faulkner." On unreliable narrators in Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, and Absalom, Absalom! Journal of American Studies of Turkey 7 (1998)
Dimino, Andrea. "Why Did the Snopeses Name Their Son 'Wallstreet Panic'? Depression Humor in Faulkner's The Hamlet." in Linda Wagner-Martin's William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism (2002)
Flaum, Morna. Elucidating Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying, the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Fowler, Doreen . Faulkner and Race. (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2007), preview at Google Books.
Friesen, Faye and Charles Peek. "What's in a Name? Etymology and As I Lay Dying." The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (9/30/2004)
Frye, Allen. "Faulkner's Distorted Crucifix: Wood Imagery in Light in August The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (10/8/2004)
Gautreaux, Tim. A writer opines on what is means to be a Southern author, from the Atlantic Monthly, March 14, 1997 (removed)
Hahn, Stephen. "Life Is Motion": Keats and Faulkner in the Classroom the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Hamblin, Robert. "Faulkner's Map of Yoknapatawpha: The End of Absalom, Absalom!" The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (9/29/2004)
Hamblin, Robert W. Did you ever have a sister?": Salinger's Holden Caulfield and Faulkner's Quentin Compson, [J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye] the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Hamblin, Robert W. "A Casebook on Mankind": Faulkner’s Use of Shakespeare, the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Hearn, Pamela. Teaching Faulkner: Meaning through Metaphor, the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Heyde, William A. "Tragi-Comedy and Comi-Tragedy in "Pantaloon in Black" The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (9/30/2004)
Holtz, Dan. Faulkner as a Framework for Studying the Civil War, the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Kartiganer, Donald. Transcript of a 1997 PBS program on William Faulkner with Professor Kartiganer and author Lee Smith, where Faulkner is discussed as both an innovative modernist and as a southern regionalist and the creator of Yoknapatawpha county
Kirkland, Karl. "He Could Do So Much for Me if He Just Would": Teaching Faulkner to Medical Students, the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Lester, Cheryl. Fifteen Ways of Looking at the Bundrens, the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Linnemann, Amy E.C. "The Decomposing Archetypes of Thomas Sutpen and Mr. Kurtz in the Motley Flag of Modernism." The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (9/29/2004)
Llewellyn, Dara. Waves of time in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses "Readers of William Faulkner must sort through complex chronological developments when reading his stories. "Go Down Moses" provides an example..."- In Studies in Short Fiction, Fall, 1996
Longe, Laurel. "Lucas Beauchamp, Joe Christmas, and the Color of Humanity." The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (10/8/2004)
Makowsky, Veronica. A Review of MLA Volume on The Sound and the Fury, the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Martin, Reginald. Faulkner's Southern reflections: the black on the back of the mirror in "Ad Astra." "William Faulkner's black characters are considered the strongest characters in his narratives," Section 1: Black South Culture, in African American Review, Spring, 1993
Ozdemir, Erinc. "The Thematic and Structural Function of Time in William Faulkner's 'The Bear'" On the role of time in this short story. Journal of American Studies of Turkey 3 (1996)
Peek, Charles A. "'Because if there is a God What the Hell is He for?': Frenchman's Bend and Its Piety in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying" Discusses whether religious sentiments in As I Lay Dying were hypocritical. The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (9/30/2004)
Peek, Charles A. "Teaching Faulkner's Go Down Moses." The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (9/30/2004)
Peek, Charles A. "That Evening Sun(g)": Blues Inscribing Black Space in White Stories. Southern Quarterly, Spring 2004.
Powell, Janice A. "Changing Portraits in 'A Rose for Emily'" The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (10/8/2004)
Saur, Pamela S. Property, wealth, and the "American Dream" in "Barn Burning." The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (9/30/2004)
Schwartz, Benjamin. An article takes up the topic of the desire of readers to undersand the American South and of writers to explain it, in a review of three books on the subject. Atlantic Monthly, December 1997 (removed)
Seaber, Ruth K. The Four of the Apocalypse: Addie and Cora, Sula and Nel and the Collapse of the Mythic, The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (9/29/2004)
Shiffman, Smadar. Romantic, radical, and ridiculous: Faulkner's hero as an oxymoron, in Style, Spring, 1995
Singal, Daniel J. Brief description of Singal's William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist, (Univ. of North Carolina Press), with chapter excerpts
Street, Anna J. Untimely Loss: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Vanderwerken, David. Faulkner’s Underworld Communities in Light in August and Sanctuary, the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Wainwright, Michael. "Coordination Problems in the Work of William Faulkner." Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 2007
Wannamaker, Annette. Viewing Addie Bundren Through a Feminist Lens. The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter (9/29/2004)
Williams, John. Dilsey, Shegog's Sermon, and the Meaning of Time, the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Teaching One Hundred Years of Solitude with The Sound and the Fury [Gabriel Garcia Marquez and William Faulkner] the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
A Teacher's Guide to William Faulkner, acknowledges students' difficulties with Faulkner, and recommends approaching him as interpreter of history, in the sense of the history of modernism and southern and American history, and exploring his portrayals of sex, social class, and especially race. From textbook publisher Heath,
Resources for teaching William Faulkner from C-Span's American Writers series
The Teaching Faulkner Newsletter, published by the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State Univ., has useful articles but their links have been unstable. Some of the articles are indexed here
Discussion questions for As I Lay Dying from Random House
Discussion questions for Absalom, Absalom! from Random House
Discussion questions for The Sound and the Fury from Random House
William Faulkner's speech on accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950
Short appreciation of The Sound and the Fury, by Joan Smith in salon.com
A biography of William Faulkner, with pictures, from the Univ of Mississippi writers page
About Oxford, Mississippi's two hometown authors, William Faulkner and John Grisham, in salon.com
On Faulkner's literary references to Texas. From Literary San Antonio by Paul McQuien and Kim G. Hochmeister, at San Antonio College
Recommended reading list for "That Evening Sun," from Univ. of Mississippi
An electronic chronology of Absalom, Absalom by professor Stephen Railton at Univ. of Va. "[O]ur goal is to take as much advantage as we can of the capacities of electronic technology to help first-time readers orient themselves inside the stories William Faulkner is telling in Absalom, Absalom! while preserving some aspect of the experience of reading it."
A web site on William Faulkner from Univ. of Mississippi has some useful resources, such as an annotated summary of the major critical treatments of some works
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