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Berland, Alwyn

Light in August: A Study in Black and White

Hardcover

ISBN: 0805780505

Paperback

ISBN: 0805781005

Brooks, Cleanth

William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country

ISBN: 0807116017

Kartiganer and Abadie

Faulkner and Ideology

Hardcover

ISBN: 0878057595

Paperback

ISBN: 0878057609

Millgate, Michael

New Essays on Light in August

ISBN: 0521313325

Ruppersburg, Hugh

Reading Faulkner: Light in August

Hardcover

ISBN: 0878057315

Paperback

ISBN: 0878057323

Swisher, Clarice

Readings on William Faulkner

Hardcover

ISBN: 1565106415

Paperback

ISBN: 1565106407

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.

Abel, Darrel. “Frozen Movement in Light in August.” Minter, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Light in August (1969): 42-54.

Arend, Mary Kate. “Perhaps the Narrator Protests Too Much: Conditional Narration in Light in August.” Journal of Narrative Technique 25.3 (Fall 1995): 285-300.

Banta, Martha. “The Razor, the Pistol, and the Ideology of Race Etiquette.” Faulkner and Ideology. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1992. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1995. 172-216.

Beppu, Keiko. “The Iconography of the Madonna and the American Imagination, 1: The Missing Joseph; 2: Roxana’s Daughters.” Kobe College Studies 38; 39.3 [112]; 3 [115] (March 1992): 93-104.

Bercovitch, Sacvan. “Culture in a Faulknerian Context.” Faulkner in Cultural Context. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1995. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1997. 284-310.

Berland, Alwyn. Light in August: A Study in Black and White. Twayne’s Masterwork Studies 95. New York: Twayne, 1992.

Bidney, Martin. “The Ring and the Book and Light in August: Faulkner’s Response to Browning.” Victorian Newsletter 81 (Spring 1992): 51-59.

Bloom, Harold. William Faulkner’s Light in August. Modern Critical Interpretations series. New York: Chelsea, 1988.

Bockting, Ineke. “Light in August and the Issue of Unreliability.” Literature and the New Interdisciplinarity: Poetics, Linguistics, History. Eds. Robert D. Sell and Peter Verdonk. DQR Studies in Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. 197-208.

Boker, Pamela A. “‘How Can He Be So Nothungry?’: Fetishism, Anorexia, and the Disavowal of the Cultural ‘I’ in Light in August.” Faulkner Journal 7.1-2 (Fall 1991-Spring 1992): 175-91.

Brooks, Cleanth. “The Community and the Pariah.” William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country. Rpt. in Minter, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Light in August (1969): 55-70.

Brown, William R. “Faulkner’s Paradox in Pathology and Salvation: Sanctuary, Light in August, Requiem for a Nun.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 9 (1967): 429-49.

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.

Burgess, M. J. “Watching (Jefferson) Watching: Light in August and the Aestheticization of Gender.” Faulkner Journal 7.1-2 (Fall 1991-Spring 1992): 95-114.

Chase, Richard. “Faulkner’s Light in August.” Minter, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Light in August (1969): 17-24.

---. “The Three Narratives of Light in August.” Readings on William Faulkner. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1998. 129-33.

Desotelle, Joanne Ruth Gowey. “The Conjunctive Novel: Form and Function.” DAI 52.4 (October 1991): 1327A-28A.

Dimino, Andrea. “From Goddess to ‘Galmeat’: Narrative Politics and Narrative Desire in Faulkner’s Novels.’ Faulkner Journal 10.2 (Spring 1995): 65-80.

Dondlinger, Mary Joanne. “Getting Around the Body: The Matter of Race and Gender in Faulkner’s Light in August.” Faulkner and the Natural World: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1996. Eds. Donald Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1999. 98-125.

Fadiman, Regina K. Faulkner’s Light in August: A Description and Interpretation of the Revisions. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1975.

Ford, Daniel G. “Comments on William Faulkner’s Temporal Vision in Sanctuary, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!” Southern Quarterly 15 (1977): 283-90.

Fowler, Doreen. “‘I Am Dying’: Faulkner’s Hightower and the Oedipal Moment.” Faulkner Journal 9.1-2 (Fall 1994-Spring 1994): 139-48.

---. “‘You Cant Beat a Woman’: Preoedipal Mother in Light in August.” Faulkner Journal 10.2 (Spring 1995): 55-64.

Friedman, Alan Warren. “The Frame-like Structure of Light in August.” Readings on William Faulkner. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1998. 134-40.

Gable, Harvey L., Jr. “Hightower’s Apotheosis in Light in August.” Mississippi Quarterly 49.3 (Summer 1996): 40.

Geismar, Maxwell. “Faulkner’s Novels are Experimental.” Readings on William Faulkner. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1998. 39-42.

Goellner, Ellen W. “Force and Form in Faulkner’s Light in August.” Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance. Eds. Ellen W. Goellner and Jacqueline Shea Murphy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1994. 182-201.

Goldberg, Wendy Fay. “Faulkner’s Haunted House: The Figure of the Recluse in Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!” DAI 57.6 (December 1996): 2475A.

Gray, Richard. “On Privacy: William Faulkner and the Human Subject.” Faulkner and Ideology. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1992. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1995. 45-69.

Hays, Peter L. “Racial Predestination: The Elect and the Damned in Light in August.” English Language Notes 33.2 (December 1995): 62-69.

Hlavsa, Virginia V. “The Crucifixion in Light in August: Suspending the Rules at the Post.” Faulkner and Religion. Eds. Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1991. 127-39.

---. Faulkner and the Thoroughly Modern Novel. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1991.

Ickstadt, Heinz. “The Discourse of Race and the ‘Passing’ Text: Faulkner’s Light in August.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 42.4 (1997): 529-36.

Jarraway, David R. “The Gothic Import of Faulkner’s ‘Black Son’ in Light in August.” American Gothic: New Inventions in a National Narrative. Eds. Robert K Martin and Eric Savoy. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1998. 57-74.

Jenkins, Lee. “Psychoanalytic Conceptualizations of Characterization: Or, Nobody Laughs in Light in August.” Kartiganer and Abadie, Faulkner and Psychology (1994): 189-218.

Jones, Anne Goodwyn. “The Work of Gender in the Southern Renaissance.” Southern Writers and Their Worlds. Eds. Christopher Morris and Steven G. Reinhardt. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1996. 41-56.

Kartiganer, Donald M. “‘What I Chose to Be’: Freud, Faulkner, Joe Christmas, and the Abandonment of Design.” Kartiganer and Abadie, Faulkner and Psychology (1994): 288-314.

King, Richard H. “World-Rejection in Faulkner’s Fiction.’ Faulkner and Religion. Eds. Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1991. 65-84.

Ladd, Barbara. Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1996.

LaLonde, Chris. “Words, ‘Barer’ Bonds, and Light in August.” Approaches to Narrative Fiction. Eds. Jon Buscall and Outi Pickering. Turku, Finland: University of Turku, 1999. 38-50.

Materassi, Mario. “Da Light in August a Luce d’agosto: I reati letterari di Elio Vittorini.” Le traduzioni italiane di William Faulkner. Ed. Sergio  Perosa. Venice, Italy: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1998. 75-96.

McKee, Patricia. Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1999.

McKinley, Gena. “Light in August: A Novel of Passing?” Faulkner in Cultural Context. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1995. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1997. 148-66.

Meeter, Glenn. “Male and Female in Light in August and The Hamlet: Faulkner’s ‘Mythical Method.’” Studies in the Novel 20.4 (Winter 1988): 404-16.

Miles, Caroline. “An Unshapely Whore and an Enchanting Beauty in William Faulkner’s Light in August.” Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (1996): n.p.

Millgate, Michael. “Faulkner’s Light in August.” The Achievement of William Faulkner. Rpt. in Minter, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Light in August (1969): 71-82.

Millgate, Michael, ed. New Essays on Light in August. The American Novel Series. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.

Minter, David L., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Light in August: A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Interpretations Series. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice, 1969.

Moreland, Richard C. “Faulkner and Modernism.” The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. Ed. Philip Weinstein. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. 17-30.

Neumann, Claus-Peter. “Knowledge and Control in William Faulkner’s Light in August.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 24.1 (1999): 53-75.

Newman, David. “‘The Vehicle Itself Is Unaware’: New Criticism the Limits of Reading Faulkner.” Mississippi Quarterly 48.3 ( 1995): 481-99.

O’Donnell, Patrick. “Faulkner in Light of Morrison.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned. Eds. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1997. 219-27.

Peppers, Cathy. “What Does Faulkner Want? Light in August as a Hysterical Male Text.” Faulkner Journal 9.1-2 (Fall 1993-Spring 1994): 125-37.

Pitavy, François. Faulkner’s Light in August. Rev. ed. Trans. Gillian E. Cook. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1973.

Polk, Noel. “‘The Dungeon Was Mother Herself’: William Faulkner: 1927-1931.” Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Eds. André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995. 165-86.

Puchek, Peter. “Faulkner’s Light in August: Epiphany, Eternity, and Time.” Southern Quarterly 36.1 (Fall 1997): 25-36.

Reid, Gregory. “Wind in August: Les Fous de Bassan’s Reply to Faulkner.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Etudes en Littérature Canadienne16.2 (1991): 112-27.

Rogers, David. “The Irony of Idealism: William Faulkner and the South’s Construction of the Mulatto.” The Discourse of Slavery: Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison. Eds. Carl Plasa and Betty J. Ring. London: Routledge, 1994. 166-90.

Romine, Scott. The Narrative Forms of Southern Community. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1999.

Ruppersburg, Hugh M. Reading Faulkner: Light in August. Reading Faulkner Series. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994.

Sugarman, Helen Lynne. “‘He Was Getting It Involved with Himself’: Identity and Reflexivity in William Faulkner’s Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!” Southern Quarterly 36.2 (Winter 1998): 95-102.

Sullivan, M. Nell. “Persons in Pieces: Races and Aphanisis in Light in August.” Mississippi Quarterly 49.3 (Summer 1996): 497-517.

Thompson, Carlyle Van. “The ‘White’ to Pass: Miscegenation, Mimicry, and Masquerade in Chesnutt, Johnson, Larsen, and Faulkner.” DAI 58.9 (March 1998): 3530.

Tidey, Ashley Turman. “Reflections across the Color Line: White Double Consciousness and the Heritage of Slavery.” DAI 57.12 (June 1997): 5155.

Timms, David. “Carnival Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner’s Light in August.” Lee, William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Fiction (1990).

Toomey, David. “The Human Heart in Conflict: Light in August’s Schizophrenic Narrator.” Studies in the Novel 23.4 (Winter 1991): 452-69.

Vanderwerken, David L. “The Abused Childhood of Joe Christmas.” Arkansas Review 5.1-2 (1996): 113-17.

Vickery, Olga W. “The Shadow and the Mirror: Light in August.” The Novels of William Faulkner. Rpt. in Minter, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Light in August (1969): 25-41.

Wachholz, Michael. “Marginality and William Faulkner’s Light in August.” Cultural Difference and the Literary Text: Pluralism and the Limits of Authenticity in North American Literatures. Eds. Winfried Siemerling and Katrin Schwenk. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1996. 130-41.

Wadlington, Warwick. “The Guns of Light in August: War and Peace in the Second Thirty Years War.” Faulkner in Cultural Context. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1995. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1997. 125-47.

Watkins, Ralph. “‘It Was Like I Was the Woman and She Was the Man’: Boundaries, Portals, and Pollution in Light in August.” Southern Literary Journal 26.2 (Spring 1994): 11-24.

Watson, Jay. “Overdoing Masculinity in Light in August: Or, Joe Christmas and the Gender Guard.” Faulkner Journal 9.1-2 (Fall 1993-Spring 1994): 149-77.

---. “Writing Blood: The Art of the Literal in Light in August.” Faulkner and the Natural World: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1996. Eds. Donald Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1999. 66-97.

Weinstein, Philip, 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.

Wittenberg, Judith Bryant. “Race in Light in August: Wordsymbolism and Obverse Reflections.” The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. Ed. Philip Weinstein. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. 146-67.

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