Faulkner from Within. William H. Rueckert

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      Faulkner from Within

      Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner

      William H. Rueckert

      Parlor Press

      Anderson, South Carolina

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      Grateful acknowledgment is made to the University of Virginia Library for permission to use the cover image from the William Faulkner Papers (#6074) in The Albert and Shirley Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

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      Library of Congress Control Number: 2003115229

      Rueckert, William H. 1926–

      Faulkner from within : destructive and generative being in the novels of William Faulkner / William H. Rueckert.

      Includes notes, bibliographical references, and index.

       1. Faulkner, William, 1897–1962—Criticism and interpretation.

      I. Title. II. Series.

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      For My Sons

      Theron, Quentin, Jordan, Morgan

      And our Faulknerian life together

      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)

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