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Arnold, Edwin T.

Reading Faulkner: Sanctuary

Hardcover

ISBN: 0878058737

Paperback

ISBN: 0878058745

Brooks, Cleanth

William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country

ISBN: 0807116017

Fowler and Abadie

Faulkner and Popular Culture

Hardcover

ISBN: 0878054332

(out of print)

ISBN: 0878054340

Honnighausen, Löthar

Faulkner’s Discourse: An International Symposium

ISBN: 3484401168

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.

Adamowski, T. H. “Faulkner’s Popeye: The ‘Other’ as Self.” Canfield, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary (1982). 32-48. Rpt. in Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Eds. André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995. 51-66.

Arnold, Edwin T. Reading Faulkner: Sanctuary. Reading Faulkner Series. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996.

Barnett, Pamela E. “The Language of Rape: Sexual Violence in Novels by Faulkner, Naylor and Morrison.” DAI 57.4 (October 1996): 1614A.

Bassett, John E. “Sanctuary: Personal Fantasies and Social Fictions.” South Carolina Review 13.1 (Fall 1981): 73-82.

Bleikasten, André. “‘Cet affreux gout d’encre’: Emma Bovary’s Ghost in Sanctuary.” Gresset and Polk, Intertextuality in Faulkner (1985). 36-56.

---. “La Rehabilitation de Temple Drake: Sanctuary et la critique feministe.” Etudes Anglaises 48.4 (October-December 1995): 442-52.

---. “Terror and Nausea: Bodies in Sanctuary.” Faulkner Journal 1.1 (Fall 1985): 17-29.

Bleikasten, André, and Nicole Moulinoux, eds. Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995.

Bloom, Harold, ed. William Faulkner’s Sanctuary. Modern Critical Interpretations series. New York: Chelsea, 1988.

Bockting, Ineke. “‘Dont Think I’m Afraid to Tell’: Talking and Taboo in William Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Litteratures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone 5 (1995): 267-75.

Boon, Kevin A. “Temple Defiled: The Brainwashing of Temple Drake in Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Faulkner Journal 6.2 (Spring 1991): 33-50.

Brooks, Cleanth. “Discovery of Evil (Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun).” William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country (1963): 116-40.

Brown, Calvin S. “Sanctuary: From Confrontation to Peaceful Void.” Mosaic 7.1 (1973): 75-95.

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.

Buchanan, Ron. “‘I Want You to Be Human’: The Potential Sexuality of Narcissa Benbow.” Mississippi Quarterly 41.3 (Summer 1988): 447-58.

Campbell, Christopher D. “Sweeney among the Bootleggers: Echoes of Eliot in Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Faulkner Journal 13.1-2 (Fall 1997-Spring 1998): 101-09.

Canfield, John Douglas, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary: A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Interpretations Series. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice, 1982.

Cesari-Stricker, Florence. “La Mecanique des chocs et la physique des flux dans Sanctuary.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Litteratures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone 5 (1995): 277-82.

Chapdelaine, Annick. “Translating the Comic: A Case Study of Sanctuaire.” Faulkner Journal 8.2 (Spring 1993): 67-83.

Chappell, Charles. “The Memphis Lawyer and His Spine: Another Piece in the Sanctuary Puzzle.” Essays in Literature 13.2 (Fall 1986): 331-38.

Chapple, Richard L. “Character Parallels in Crime and Punishment and Sanctuary.” Germano-Slavica: A Canadian Journal of Germanic and Slavic Comparative Studies 2.1 (1976): 5-14.

Cohen, Philip. “‘A Cheap Idea...Deliberately Conceived to Make Money’: The Biographical Context of William Faulkner’s Introduction to Sanctuary.” Faulkner Journal 3.2 (Spring 1988): 54-66.

Cox, Dianne Luce. “A Measure of Innocence: Sanctuary’s Temple Drake.” Mississippi Quarterly 39.3 (Summer 1986): 301-24.

Creighton, Joanne V. “Self-Destructive Evil in Sanctuary.” Twentieth Century Literature 18 (1972): 259-70.

Degenfelder, E. Pauline. “The Four Faces of Temple Drake: Faulkner’s Sanctuary, Requiem for a Nun, and the Two Film Adaptations.” American Quarterly 28 (1977): 544-60.

DeShong, Scott. “Toward an Ethics of Reading Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Journal of Narrative Technique 25.3 (Fall 1995): 238-57.

Diaz-Diocaretz, Myriam. “‘Look What He Has Already Done to Me’: Modality and Temple Drake.” Honnighausen, Faulkner’s Discourse: An International Symposium (1989). 214-22.

Dunleavy, Linda. “Sanctuary, Sexual Difference, and the Problem of Rape.” Studies in American Fiction 24.2 (Autumn 1996): 171-91.

Eddy, Charmaine. “The Policing and Proliferation of Desire: Gender and the Homosocial in Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Faulkner Journal 14.2 (1999): 21-39.

Ellstrom, Karen Aubrey. “Faulkner’s Closing of the Doors in Sanctuary.” Notes on Mississippi Writers 20.2 (1988): 63-73.

Eschliman, Herbert R. “A Deconstruction of Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 8 (1983): 1-5.

Esslinger, Pat M. “No Spinach in Sanctuary.” Modern Fiction Studies 18 (1972-73): 555-58.

Fiedler, Leslie. “Pop Goes the Faulkner: In Quest of Sanctuary.” Fowler and Abadie, Faulkner and Popular Culture (1990). 75-92.

Folks, Jeffrey J. “Women at the ‘Crossing of the Ways’: Faulkner’s Portrayal of Temple Drake.” Ford, Heir and Prototype: Original and Derived Characterizations in Faulkner (1987). 59-69.

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.

Forter, Gregory. “Faulkner’s Black Holes: Vision and Vomit in Sanctuary.” Mississippi Quarterly 49.3 (Summer 1996): 537-62.

Fowler, Doreen. “Time and Punishment in Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun.” Renascence 38.4 (Summer 1986): 245-55.

Frazier, David L. “Gothicism in Sanctuary: The Black Pall and the Crap Table.” Canfield, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary (1982). 49-58. Rpt. in Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Eds. André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995. 13-22.

Gantt, Patricia M. “‘This Guerilla Warfare of Everyday Life’: The Politics of Clothing in Faulkner’s Fiction.” Mississippi Quarterly 49.3 (Summer 1996): 409-23.

Graham, Philip. “Patterns in Faulkner’s Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun.” Tennessee Studies in Literature 8 (1963): 39-46.

Gresset, Michel. “Fascination.” Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Eds. André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995. 205-13.

---. “Of Sailboats and Kites: The ‘Dying Fall’ in Faulkner’s Sanctuary and Beckett’s Murphy.” Gresset and Polk, Intertextuality in Faulkner (1985). 57-72.

Guerard, Albert J. “The Misogynous Vision as High Art: Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Southern Review 12 (1976): 215-31.

Hamblen, Abigail Ann. “Faulkner’s Pillar of Endurance: Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun.” Midwest Quarterly 6 (1965): 369-75.

Hanley, Lawrence F. “Popular Culture and Crisis: King Kong Meets Edmund Wilson.” Radical Revisions: Rereading 1930s Culture. Eds. Bill Mullen and Sherry Lee Linkon. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996. 242-63.

Hardt, John S. “And Faulkner Nodded: Calvin Coolidge in Sanctuary.” Notes on Mississippi Writers 12 (1979): 30-31.

Heller, Terry. “Mirrored Worlds and the Gothic in Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Mississippi Quarterly 42.3 (Summer 1989): 247-59.

Heller, Terry. “Notes on Technique in Black Humor.” Black Humor: Critical Essays. Ed. Alan R. Pratt. Garland Studies in Humor 2. New York: Garland, 1993. 197-214.

Heller, Terry. “Terror and Empathy in Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Arizona Quarterly 40.4 (Winter 1984): 344-64.

Honnighausen, Löthar, and André Bleikasten, (trans.). “Madame Bovary et le martin-pecheur de Caroline: Regionalism et modernisme dans Sanctuaire.” Europe: Revue Littéraire Mensuelle 70. 753-754 (January-February 1992): 45-56. In French.

Hurd, Myles. “Faulkner’s Horace Benbow: The Burden of Characterization and the Confusion of Meaning in Sanctuary.” College Language Association Journal 23 (1980): 416-30.

Inge, M. Thomas. “Faulkner Reads the Funny Papers.” Fowler and Abadie, Faulkner and Humor (1986). 153-90.

Irwin, John T. “Horace Benbow and the Myth of Narcissa.” Kartiganer and Abadie, Faulkner and Psychology (1994). 242-71.

Keane-Temple, Rebecca. “The Sounds of Sanctuary: Horace Benbow’s Consciousness.” Mississippi Quarterly 50.3 (Summer 1997): 445-50.

Keefer, T. Frederick. “William Faulkner’s Sanctuary: A Myth Examined.” Twentieth Century Literature 15 (1969): 97-104.

Kerr, Elizabeth M. “The Creative Evolution of Sanctuary.” Faulkner Studies: An Annual of Research, Criticism, and Reviews 1 (1980): 14-28.

Kinney, Arthur F. “Sanctuary: Style as Vision.” Canfield, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary (1982). 109-19.

Kirchdorfer, Ulf. “Sanctuary: Temple as a Parrot.” Faulkner Journal 6.2 (Spring 1991): 51-53.

Knights, Pamela E. “The Cost of Single-Mindedness: Consciousness in Sanctuary.” Faulkner Journal 5.1 (Fall 1989): 3-10.

Kubie, Lawrence S. “William Faulkner’s Sanctuary: An Analysis.” Canfield, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary (1982). 25-31.

LaLonde, Chris. “‘In Other Words’: Language, Identity, and Ideology in William Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Chiba Review 18 (1996): 24-42.

Lippman, Carlee. “William Faulkner and Patrick Suskind: Speaking the Unspeakable.” Literary Half-Yearly 32.2 (July 1991): 73-85.

Lyday, Lance. “Faulkner’s Miss Reba and Shakespeare’s Drunken Porter.” Lamar Journal of the Humanities 16.1 (Spring 1990): 69-80.

Lyday, Lance. “Sanctuary: Faulkner’s Inferno.” Mississippi Quarterly 35.3 (Summer 1982): 243-53.

Madden, David. “Photographs in the 1929 Version of Sanctuary.” Fowler and Abadie, Faulkner and Popular Culture (1990). 93-109.

Malraux, André. “Preface to William Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Trans. Violet M. Horvath. Southern Review 10 (1974): 889-91.

Mason, Robert L. “A Defense of Faulkner’s Sanctuary.”Georgia Review 21 (1967): 430-38.

Materassi, Mario. “Che cosa c’e nel nome di Popeye?” Le traduzioni italiane di William Faulkner. Ed. Sergio  Perosa. Venice, Italy: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1998. 177-91.

Matthews, John T. “The Elliptical Nature of Sanctuary.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 17.3 (Spring 1984): 246-65. Rpt. in Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Eds. André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995. 103-23.

McDonald, Hal. “Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Explicator 55.4 (Summer 1997): 222-23.

McHaney, Thomas L. “Sanctuary and Frazer’s Slain Kings.” Canfield, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary (1982). 79-92. Rpt. in Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Eds. André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995. 35-50.

Meriwether, James B. “The Manuscript of Faulkner’s Introduction to Sanctuary.” Mississippi Quarterly 36.3 (Summer 1983): 475-81.

Miller, James E., Jr. “Sanctuary: Yoknapatawpha’s Waste Land.” The Twenties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama. Ed. Warren French. Deland, Fla.: Everett/Edwards, 1975. 249-67.

Millgate, Michael. “Faulkner’s First Trilogy: Sartoris, Sanctuary, and Requiem for a Nun.” Fowler and Abadie, Fifty Years of Yoknapatawpha (1980). 90-109.

Millgate, Michael. “Undue Process: William Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Rough Justice: Essays on Crime in Literature. Ed. M. L. Friedland. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991. 157-69.

Moore, Gene M. “The Narrative Surface of Sanctuary.” Etudes faulkneriennes, I: Sanctuary. Ed. Michel Gresset. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes, 1996. 21-25.

Moore, Robert R. “Desire and Despair: Temple Drake’s Self-Victimization.” Fowler and Abadie, Faulkner and Women (1986). 112-27.

Morell, Giliane. “The Last Scene of Sanctuary.” Mississippi Quarterly 25.3 (1977): 351-55.

Mortimer, Gail L. “Reflections of Evil in Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Litteratures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone 5 (1995): 283-89.

Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth. “Bewildered Witness: Temple Drake in Sanctuary.” Faulkner Journal 1.2 (Spring 1986): 43-55. Rpt. in Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Eds. André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995. 149-63.

Parker, Robert Dale. “Watching Something Happening Told: Sanctuary.” Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Eds. André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995. 125-47.

Pettey, Homer B. “Reading and Raping in Sanctuary.” Faulkner Journal 3.1 (Fall 1987): 71-84.

Phillips, Gene. “Faulkner and the Film: Two Versions of Sanctuary.” Literary/Film Quarterly 1 (1973): 263-73.

Phillips, Gene D. “Novelist versus Filmmaker: Richardson’s Adaptations of Faulkner’s Sanctuary (1961) and Waugh’s Loved One (1965).” The Cinema of Tony Richardson: Essays and Interviews. Eds. James M. Welsh and John C. Gibbets. Albany: State U of New York P. 1999. 127-40.

Polchin, James. “Selling a Novel: Faulkner’s Sanctuary as a Psychosexual Text.” Faulkner and Gender. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1994. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996. 145-59.

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.

---. “The Space between Sanctuary.” Gresset and Polk, Intertextuality in Faulkner (1985). 16-35.

Railey, Kevin. “The Social Psychology of Paternalism: Sanctuary’s Cultural Context.” Faulkner in Cultural Context. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1995. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1997. 75-98.

Roberts, Diane. “Ravished Belles: Stories of Rape and Resistance in Flags in the Dust and Sanctuary.” Faulkner Journal 4.1-2 (Fall 1988-Spring 1989): 21-35.

Rossky, William. “The Pattern of Nightmare in Sanctuary, or, Miss Reba’s Dogs.” Canfield, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary (1982). 70-78. Rpt. in Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Eds. André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995. 23-34.

Rousselle, Melinda McLeod. Annotations to Faulkner’s Sanctuary. William Faulkner, Annotations to the Novels Series 4. New York: Garland, 1989.

Schafer, William J. “Faulkner’s Sanctuary: The Blackness of Fairytale.” Durham University Journal 52.2 (July 1991): 217-22.

Scheel, Kathleen M. “Incest, Repression, and Repetition-Compulsion: The Case of Faulkner’s Temple Drake.” Mosaic-A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 30.4 (December 1997): 39-55.

Schmuhl, Robert. “Faulkner’s Sanctuary: The Last Laugh of Innocence.” Notes on Mississippi Writers 6 (1974): 73-80.

Seed, David. “The Evidence of Things Seen and Unseen: William Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” American Horror Fiction: From Brockden Brown to Stephen King. Ed. Brian Docherty. New York: St. Martin’s, 1990. 73-91.

Seidel, Kathryn Lee. “From Narcissist to Masochist: A New Look at Temple Drake.” Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 5.1-2 (March 1984): 27-35.

Sherrill, John B. “Sanctuary as Tragedy.” Arizona Quarterly 43.2 (Summer 1987): 119-32.

Strong, Amy Lovell. “Machines and Machinations: Controlling Desires in Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Faulkner Journal 9.1-2 (Fall 1993-Spring 1994): 69-81.

Sundquist, Eric J. “Sanctuary: An American Gothic.” Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Eds. André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995. 83-101.

Tanaka, Takako. “What Horace Benbow Sees: Voyeurism, Narcissism, and Misogyny from Flags in the Dust to Sanctuary.” Faulkner Studies 2.1 (April 1994): 27-41.

Tanner, Laura E. “Reading Rape: Sanctuary and The Women of Brewster Place.” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 62.4 (December 1990): 559-82. Rpt. in Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Eds. André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995. 187-204.

Tate, Allen. “Faulkner’s Sanctuary and the Southern Myth.” Virginia Quarterly Review 44 (1968): 418-27.

Tebbetts, Terrell L. “Faulkner’s Two Dantes: To the Inferno and Back.” Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (1988): 155-61.

Toles, George. “The Space Between: A Study of Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Canfield, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary (1982).

Toombs, Veronica M. “Deconstructing Violence against Women: William Faulkner’s Sanctuary and Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy.” The Image of Violence in Literature, the Media, and Society. Eds. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan.  Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, University of Southern Colorado, 1995. 212-17. 120-28.

Trouard, Dawn. “X Marks the Spot: Faulkner’s Garden.” Faulkner in Cultural Context. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1995. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1997. 99-124.

Urgo, Joseph R. Novel Frames: Literature as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1991.

Urgo, Joseph R. “Temple Drake’s Truthful Perjury: Rethinking Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 55.3 (October 1983): 435-44.

Vanderwerken, David L. “Lost in the Whorehouse: The Comic Chapters of Sanctuary.” Conference of College Teachers of English Studies 54 (September 1989): 34-38.

Vickery, Olga W. “Crime and Punishment: Sanctuary.” Canfield, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary (1982). 15-23.

Watson, Jay. “The Failure of Forensic Storytelling in Sanctuary.” Faulkner Journal 6.1 (Fall 1990): 47-66.

Weinstein, Philip M. “Precarious Sanctuaries: Protection and Exposure in Faulkner’s Fiction.” Canfield, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary (1982). 129-33. Rpt. in Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Eds. André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner, 1995. 67-82.

Williams, Aubrey. “William Faulkner’s ‘Temple’ of Innocence.” Canfield, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary (1982). 59-69.

Williams, David. “The Profaned Temple.” Canfield, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary (1982). 93-107.

Wilson, Andrew J. “The Corruption in Looking: William Faulkner’s Sanctuary as a Detective Novel.” Mississippi Quarterly 47.3 (Summer 1994): 441-60.

Yin, Hum Sue, and Larry Young. “Alcohol, Faulkner, and Sanctuary: Myth and Reality.” Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 19.2 (Fall 1993): 37-51.

Yonce, Margaret. “‘His True Penelope was Flaubert’: Madame Bovary and Sanctuary.” Mississippi Quarterly 29 (1976): 439-42.

Young, T. Daniel. “Narciss Benbow’s Strange Love/s: William Faulkner.” American Declarations of Love. Ed. Ann Massa. New York: St. Martin’s, 1990. 88-103.

Zeitlin, Michael. “Masochism in Sanctuary.” Etudes faulkneriennes, I: Sanctuary. Ed. Michel Gresset. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes, 1996. 97-105.

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