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The following books listed in this bibliography are available for purchase online, or you may use the ISBN to order it from your local bookstore:

Brooks, Cleanth

William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country

ISBN: 0807116017

Kartiganer and Abadie

Faulkner and the Natural World

Hardcover

ISBN: 1578061202

Paperback

ISBN: 1578061210

Kinney, Arthur

Go Down, Moses: The Miscegenation of Time

Hardcover

ISBN: 0805783687

Paperback

ISBN: 0805785728

Swisher, Clarice

Readings on William Faulkner

Hardcover

ISBN: 1565106415

Paperback

ISBN: 1565106407

Wagner-Martin, Linda

New Essays on Go Down, Moses

Hardcover

ISBN: 052145431X

Paperback

ISBN: 0521456096

Note: This listing is provided as a guide to locate scholarly print resources (typically books and articles) pertaining to Faulkner. Except in a few rare instances, these resources are not freely available on the Internet. Some resources may be available via subscription-based online databases, such as Ebscohost, JSTOR, Literature Online, Project MUSE, and netLibrary, to name just a few. Check with your local library for availability. Because they are protected by copyright, none of the bibliographical resources listed here are available online at this web site.

Abrams, Cheryl Rene. “Mammy or Ideal: The Black Surrogate Mother in William Faulkner’s Novels.” DAI 56.2 (August 1995): 547A.

Anderson, Carl L. “Faulkner’s ‘Was’: ‘A Deadlier Purpose Than Simple Pleasure.’” American Literature 61.3 (October 1989): 414-28.

Arnold, David L. “There Is No Such Thing as ‘Was.’” Journal of Narrative Technique 26.2 (Spring 1996): 172-86.

Atkinson, Stephen. “Constructing History in Go Down, Moses and Beloved:  A Critical and Pedagogical Perspective.” Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 22 (1997): 21-27.

Balhorn, Mark. “Paper Representations of the Non-Standard Voice.”Visible Language 32.1 (1998): 56-74.

Barker, Stephen. “From Old Gold to I.O.U.’s: Ike McCaslin’s Debased Genealogical Coin.” Faulkner Journal 3.1 (Fall 1987): 2-25.

Bedard, Brian. “The Real Meaning of William Faulkner’s ‘The Bear.’” South Dakota Review 34.1 (Spring 1996): 3-5.

Benoit, Raymond. “Archetypes and Ecotones: The Tree in Faulkner’s ‘The Bear’ and Irving’s ‘Rip Van Winkle.'” Notes on Contemporary Literature 22.1 (January 1992): 4-5.

Brooks, Cleanth. “The Story of the McCaslins (Go Down, Moses).” William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country (1963): 244-78.

Bluestein, Gene. “Faulkner and Miscegenation.” Arizona Quarerly 45.2 (Summer 1987): 151-64.

Buell, Lawrence. “Faulkner and the Claims of the Natural World.” Faulkner and the Natural World: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1996. Eds. Donald Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1999. 1-18.

Butor, Michel. “Las relaciones de parentesco en ‘El Oso.’” La Palabra y El Hombre: Revista de la Universidad Veracruzana 103 (July-September 1997): 147-58.

Canfield, J. Douglas. “Faulkner’s Grecian Urn and Ike McCaslin’s Empty Legacies.” Arizona Quarterly 36.4 (Winter 1980): 359-84.

Clarke, Graham. “Marking Out and Digging In: Language as Ritual in Go Down, Moses.” Lee, William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Fiction (1990): 147-64.

Cook, Eleanor. “Reading Typologically, for Example, Faulkner.” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 63.4 (December 1991): 693-711.

Davis, Thadious M. “The Game of Courts: Go Down, Moses, Arbitrary Legalities, and Compensatory Boundaries.” New Essays on Go Down, Moses. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. 129-54.

Dunn, Margaret M. “The Illusion of Freedom in The Hamlet and Go Down, Moses.” American Literature 57.3 (October 1985): 407-23.

Duvall, John N. “Doe Hunting and Masculinity: Song of Solomon and Go Down, Moses.” Arizona Quarterly 47.1 (Spring 1991): 95-115.

Early, James. The Making of Go Down, Moses. Dallas: Southern Methodist UP, 1972.

Evans, David H. “Taking the Place of Nature: ‘The Bear’ and the Incarnation of America.” Faulkner and the Natural World: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1996. Eds. Donald Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1999. 179-97.

Fessenden, William E. “Temporal Structure and Meaning: The Defamiliarization of the Reader in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.” DAI 51.11 (May 1991): 3743A.

Godden, Richard. “Agricultural Adjustment, Revenants, Remnants, and Counter-Revolution in Faulkner’s ‘The Fire and the Hearth.’” Faulkner Journal 12.2 (Spring 1997): 41-55.

Gold, Joseph. “‘The Bear’ as Allegory and Essay.” Readings on William Faulkner. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1998. 78-83.

Gwin, Minrose. “Her Shape, His Hand: The Spaces of African American Women in Go Down, Moses.” New Essays on Go Down, Moses. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. 73-100.

Ho, Wen-ching. “Sex accross the Color Line in Go Down, Moses.” Studies in English Literature and Linguistics 18 (May 1992): 29-49.

Hoffman, Daniel. Faulkner’s Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1989.

Hoffmann, Gerhard. “Myth, Ideology, Symbol and Faulkner’s Modernism/Postmodernism in Go Down, Moses.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 42.4 (1997): 661-78.

Kinney, Arthur F. Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The McCaslin Family. Critical Essays in American Literature Series. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990.

---. Go Down Moses: The Miscegenation of Time. Twayne’s Masterwork Studies 148. New York: Twayne, 1996.

Kleppe, Sandra Lee. “The Curse of God in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.” Literature & Theology: an International Journal of Theory, Criticism & Culture 10.4 (December 1996): 361-69.

Kuyk, Dirk, Jr. Threads Cable-Strong: William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell UP, 1983.

Ladd, Barbara. “‘Too Positive a Shape Not to Be Hurt’: Go Down, Moses, History and the Woman Artist in Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples.” Bucknell Review: a Scholarly Journal of Letters, Arts & Sciences 39.1 (1995): 79-103.

Liu, Xian. “Echoing ‘Pantaloon in Black’ in Chinese.” Faulkner Journal 10.1 (Fall 1994): 57-74.

Llewellyn, Dara. “Waves of Time in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.” Studies in Short Fiction 33.4 (Fall 1996): 497-513.

Lydenberg, John. “‘The Bear’ as a Nature Myth.” Readings on William Faulkner. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1998. 84-93.

MacKethan, Lucinda H. “The Grandfather Clause: Reading the Legacy from ‘The Bear’ to Song of Solomon.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned. Eds. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1997. 99-114.

Matthews, John T. “Touching Race in Go Down, Moses.” New Essays on Go Down, Moses. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. 21-47.

May, Rachel. “Sensible Elocution: How Translation Works in & upon Punctuation.” The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication 3.1 (1997): 1-20.

Meeter, Glenn. “Molly’s Vision: Lost Cause Ideology and Genesis in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.” Faulkner and Ideology. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1992. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1995. 277-96.

Moore, Gene M. “From Regional Bears to National Myths: The Rewriting of William Faulkner.” “Writing” Nation and “Writing” Region in America. Eds. Theo D’haen and Hans Bertens. Amsterdam: VU UP, 1996.  139-44.

O’Donnell, Patrick. “Faulkner and Postmodernism.” The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. Ed. Philip Weinstein. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. 31-50.

---. “Remarking Bodies: Divagations of Morrison from Faulkner.” Faulkner, His Contemporaries, and His Posterity. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Tubingen: Francke, 1993. 322-27.

Ozdemir, Erinc. “The Thematic and Structural Function of Time in William Faulkner’s ‘The Bear.’” Journal of American Studies of Turkey 3 (1996): 95-105.

Peters, John G. “Repudiation, Wilderness, Birthright: Reconciling Conflicting Views of Faulkner’s Ike McCaslin.” English Language Notes 33.3 (March 1996): 39-46.

Powers, Lyall H. “The Structure of Go Down, Moses.” Readings on William Faulkner. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1998. 159-67.

Prewitt, Wiley C., Jr. “Return of the Big Woods: Hunting and Habitat in Yoknapatawpha.” Faulkner and the Natural World: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1996. Eds. Donald Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1999. 198-21.

Reesman, Jeanne Campbell. American Designs: The Late Novels of James and Faulkner. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991.

Robinson, David W., and Caren J. Town. “‘Who Dealt These Cards?’: The Excluded Narrators of Go Down, Moses.” Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal 37.2 (Summer 1991): 192-206.

Ross, Stephen M.. “Thick-Tongued Fiction: Julia Peterkin and Some Implications of the Dialect Tradition.” Faulkner, His Contemporaries, and His Posterity. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Tubingen: Francke, 1993. 229-44.

Rowe, John Carlos. “The African-American Voice in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.” Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities. Ed. J. Gerald Kennedy. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 1995. 76-97.

Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe. “‘Old Carothers’ Doomed and Fatal Blood’: The Layers of the Ledgers in Go Down, Moses.” Faulkner Journal 12.2 (Spring 1997): 87-88.

---. “Imagined Edens and Lacan’s Lost Object: The Wilderness and Subjectivity in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.” Mississippi Quarterly 50.3 (Summer 1997): 477-92.

Sensibar, Judith L. “Who Wears the Mask? Memory, Desire, and Race in Go Down, Moses.” New Essays on Go Down, Moses. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. 101-27.

Taylor, Nancy Drew. Annotations to William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses. William Faulkner, Annotions to the Novels Series. New York: Garland, 1994.

---. “William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses: Sources, Background, Annotations.” DAI 51.11 (May 1991): 3748A.

Trilling, Lionel. “Race as a Theme in Go Down, Moses.” Readings on William Faulkner. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1998. 168-71.

Utley, Fancis Lee, Lynn Z. Bloom, and Arthur F. Kinney, eds. Bear, Man, and God: Eight Approaches to William Faulkner’s “The Bear.” 2nd. ed. New York: Random House, 1971.

VanderVeen, Arthur A. “Faulkner, the Interwar Gold Standard, and Discourses of Value in the 1930s.” Faulkner Journal 12.1 (Fall 1996): 43-62.

Verich, Thomas M. “Go Down, Moses and Other Stories: A Preliminary Census of the Limited, Signed Edition of 100 Numbered Copies.” Mississippi Quarterly 44.3 (Summer 1991): 337-45.

Wagner-Martin, Linda, ed. New Essays on Go Down, Moses. The American Novel Series. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Wall, Carey. “Go Down, Moses: The Collective Action of Redress.” Faulkner Journal 7.1-2 (Fall 1991-Spring 1992): 151-74.

Wallach, Rick. “Moby Bear: Thematic and Structural Concordances between William Faulkner’s ‘The Bear’ and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.” Southern Literary Journal 30.1 (Fall 1997): 43-54.

Wang, Jennie. Novelistic Love in the Platonic Tradition: Fielding, Faulkner, and the Postmodernists. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.

---. “Romantic Love and Its Repudiation of Cultural Legacy: Faulkner’s Silver Horn in ‘Delta Autumn.’” Short Story 4.2 (Fall 1996): 85-102.

Watson, Neil. “The ‘Incredibly Loud ... Miss-fire’: A Sexual Reading of Go Down, Moses.” Faulkner Journal 9.1-2 (Fall 1993-Spring 1994): 113-23.

Weinstein, Philip M. “Mister: The Drama of Black Manhood in Faulkner and Morrison.” Faulkner and Gender. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1994. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996. 273-96.

---, and Jacques Pothier, (trans.). “La Constitution du sujet: Joe Christmas et Ike McCaslin.” Europe: Revue Littéraire Mensuelle 70. 753-754 (January-February 1992): 80-91. In French.

Westling, Louise. “Women, Landscape, and the Legacy of Gilgamesh in Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses.” Mississippi Quarterly 48.3 (Summer 1995): 501-21.

Wittenberg, Judith Bryant. “Go Down, Moses and the Discourse of Environmentalism.” New Essays on Go Down, Moses. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. 49-71.

Wolfe, Gary K. “The Bear and the Aleph: Gregory Benford’s Against Infinity.” New York Review of Science Fiction 30 (February 1991): 1, 8-11.

Zender, Karl F. “Faulkner and the Politics of Incest.” American Literature 70.4 (December 1998): 739-65.

Zorzi, Rosella Mamoli. “Faulkner and a Contemporary Feminist Novel: From Faulkner’s The Bear to Aritha Van Herk’s The Tent Pig.” Faulkner, His Contemporaries, and His Posterity. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Tubingen: Francke, 1993.

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