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Bertens and Bertens

“Writing” Nation and “Writing” Region in America

ISBN: 9053834222

Brooks, Cleanth

William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond

ISBN: 0807116025

William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country

Paperback

ISBN: 0807116017

Irwin, John T.

Doubling and Incest, Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner

Johns Hopkins UP

Rev. 1996 ed.

ISBN: 0801852315

Kartiganer and Abadie

Faulkner and Ideology

Hardcover

ISBN: 0878057595

Paperback

ISBN: 0878057609

Kolmerten, et al.

Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned

Hardcover

ISBN: 0878059555

Paperback

ISBN: 0878059563

Parker, Robert Dale

Absalom, Absalom! The Questioning of Fictions

Hardcover

ISBN: 0805780718

Paperback

ISBN: 0805781161

Sundquist, Eric

Faulkner: The House Divided

ISBN: 0801831644

Wadlington, Warwick

Reading Faulknerian Tragedy

ISBN: 0801420113

Weinstein, Philip M. The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner

The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner

Hardcover

ISBN: 0521420636

Paperback

ISBN: 0521421675


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Absalom, Absalom!

Bloom, Harold (ed.)

William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!: Modern Critical Interpretations

Chelsea House

ISBN: 1555460399

Published 1987

Goldman, Arnold (ed.)

Twentieth Century Interpretations of Absalom, Absalom!

Prentice Hall

ISBN: 0130008281

Published 1972

Kinney, Arthur F. (ed.)

Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family

Twayne Publishers

Hardcover

ISBN: 0816173141

Published 1996

Kuyk, Dirk

Sutpen’s Design: Interpreting Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!

University Press of Virginia

Hardcover

ISBN: 0813912601

Published 1990

Langford, Gerald

Faulkner’s Revision of Absalom, Absalom!: A Collation of the Manuscript and the Published Book

University of Texas Press

ISBN: 0292701136

Published 1971

Montauzon, Christine de

Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Interpretability: The Inexplicable Unseen

Peter Lang Publishing

Paperback

ISBN: 3261035153

Published 1985

Muhlenfeld, Elizabeth

William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!: A Critical Casebook

Garland

ISBN: 0824092279

Published 1984

Polk, Noel

Absalom, Absalom!: A Concordance to the Novel

UMI Research Press

ISBN: 0835708632

Published 1989

Absalom, Absalom!: The Typescript Setting Copy and Miscellaneous Materials

Garland

ISBN: 0824068173

Published 1987

Ragan, David Paul

Annotations to William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!

Garland

ISBN: 0824042352

Published 1991

William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!: A Critical Study

UMI Research Press

ISBN: 0835719936

Published 1989

Schoenberg, Estella

Old Tales and Talking: Quentin Compson in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Related Works

University Press of Mississippi

ISBN: 0878050302

Published 1977

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Armstrong, Julie Buckner. “The Romance of Recovery in Hawthorne, Faulkner, and Morrison.”  DAI 57.9 March 1997): 3932.

Batty, Nancy E. “The Riddle of Absalom, Absalom!: Looking at the Wrong Blackbird?” Mississippi Quarterly 47.3 (Summer 1994): 461-89.

---. “Riff, Refrain, Reframe: Toni Morrison’s Song of Absalom.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned. Eds. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1997. 77-98.

Batty, Nancy Ellen. “Economies of Desire: Reading Between Toni Morrison and William Faulkner.” DAI 55.9 (1995): 2826A. U of Western Ontario.

---. “Riff, Refrain, Reframe: Toni Morrison’s Song of Absalom.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned. Eds. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

Benson, Sean. “The Abrahamic Mythopoeia of Sutpen’s Design: ‘Notrespectablility’ in Search of a Dynasty.” Mississippi Quarterly 50.3 (Summer 1997): 450-64.

Bentley-Baker, Dan. “Investigation into the Holographic Memory Model in Relation to Multiple Narration in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!” Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 19.3-4 (August 1998): 236-43.

Betz, B. G. Till. “Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury: Quentin’s Failure to Create a Mythic Reconstruction.” University of Mississippi Studies in English 11-12 (1993-1995): 438-54.

Bevilacqua, Winifred Farrant. “History into Narrative: William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!The Artists and His Masks: William Faulkner’s Metafiction. Ed. Agostino Lombardo. Rome: Bulzoni, 1991. 255-78.

Bloom, Harold, ed. William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! Modern Critical Interpretations series. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

Bockting, Ineke. “Deconstructing the ‘Necessary’ World: Southern Defensive Narrative and the Childhood Autobiography.” “Writing” Nation and “Writing” Region in America. Eds. Theo D’haen and Hans Bertens. Amsterdam: VU UP, 1996. 145-55.

Bollinger, Laurel. “‘That Triumvirate Mother-Woman’: Narrative Authority and Interdividuality in Absalom, Absalom!” Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 9.3 (December 1998): 197-223.

Boone, Joseph A. “Creation by the Father’s Fiat: Paternal Narrative, Sexual Anxiety, and the Deauthorizing Designs of Absalom, Absalom!” Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. Eds. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1997. 1068-86.

Brodsky, Claudia. “The Working of Narrative in Absalom, Absalom!Amerikastudien 23 (1978): 240-59.

Brooks, Cleanth. “History and the Sense of the Tragic (Absalom, Absalom!). William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country (1963). 295-324.

---. “The Narrative Structure of Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond (1978). 301-28.

---. “Thomas Sutpen: A Representative Southern Planter?” William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond (1978). 283-300.

Brooks, Peter. Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1992.

Brown, Joseph. “To Cheer the Weary Traveler: Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and History.” Mississippi Quarterly 49.4 (Fall 1996): 709-26.

Byerman, Keith E. “Untold Stories: Black Daughters in Absalom, Absalom! and The Bluest Eye.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned. Eds. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

Clarke, Deborah L. “Familiar and Fantastic: Women in Absalom, Absalom!Faulkner Journal 2.1 (Fall 1986): 62-72.

Close, Steven M. “Approaching a Stylistics of Modernism: History as Haunting in the Novels of Woolf, Faulkner and Morrison.” DAI 56.5 (November 1995): 1769A.

Cohn, Deborah. “The Case of the Fabricated Facts: Historical Reconstruction in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Vargas Llosa’s Historia de Mayta.” The Comparatist: Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association 21 (May 1997): 25-48.

Collington, Philip. “Shame in Japan and the American South: Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!” Scenes of Shame: Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing. Eds. Joseph Adamson and Hillary Clark. Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. 167-87.

Cowley, Malcolm. “Absalom, Absalom! as a Legend of the Deep South.” Readings on William Faulkner. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1998. 142-48.

Cullick, Jonathan S. “‘I Had a Design’: Sutpen as Narrator in Absalom, Absalom!” Southern Literary Journal 28.2 (Spring 1996): 48-58.

Cunningham, J. Christopher. “Sutpen’s Designs: Masculine Reproduction and the Unmaking of the Self-Made Man in Absalom, Absalom!” Mississippi Quarterly 49.3 (Summer 1996): 563-89.

Dale, Corinne. “Absalom, Absalom! and the Snopes Trilogy: Southern Patriarchy in Revision.” Mississippi Quarterly 45.3 (Summer 1992): 321-37.

Dalziel, Pamela. “Absalom, Absalom!: The Extension of Dialogic Form.” Mississippi Quarterly 45.3 (Summer 1992): 277-94.

Davidson, Michael. “Strange Blood: Hemophobia and the Unexplored Boundaries of Queer Nation.” Beyond the Binary: Reconstructing Cultural Identity in a Multicultural Context. Ed. Timothy B. Powell. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1999. 39-60.

Davis, Thadious M. Faulkner’s “Negro” (1983). 179-238.

Dickerson, Lynn. “Thomas Sutpen: Mountaineer Stereotype in Absalom, Absalom!Appalachian History 12 (Spring 1984): 73-78.

Dimino, Andrea. “Miss Rosa as ‘Love’s Androgynous Advocate’: Gender and Narrative Indeterminacy in Chapter 5 of Absalom, Absalom!” Faulkner and Gender. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1994. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996. 181-96.

Doell, Cynthia Rae. “Structures of Temporality, Reflections on History: Twentieth Century Literature and Theory.” DAI 53.5 (November 1992): 1508A.

Donaldson, Susan V. “Keeping Quentin Compson Alive: The Last Gentleman, The Second Coming, and the Problem of Masculinity.” Walker Percy’s Feminine Characters. Eds. Lewis A. Lawson. and Elzbieta H. Oleksy. Troy, NY: Whitston, 1995. 62-77.

Donnelly, Colleen E. “Compelled to Believe: Historiography and Truth in Absalom, Absalom!Style 25.1 (Spring 1991): 104-22.

Donlon, Jocelyn Hazelwood. “Porches: Stories: Power: Spatial and Racial Intersections in Faulkner and Hurston.” Journal of American Culture 19.4 (Winter 1996): 95-110.

Dowling, Gregory. “Casting a Shadow: Glauco Cambon’s Translation of Absalom, Absalom!” Le traduzioni italiane di William Faulkner. Ed. Sergio  Perosa. Venice, Italy: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1998. 117-40.

Dunleavy, Linda Ellen. “Women’s Place, Women’s Voice: Counter-Narrative in the Fiction of Melville, Dreiser and Faulkner.” DAI 54.9 (1994): 3434A-35A. State U of New York, Buffalo.

Dunne, Robert. “Absalom, Absalom! and the Ripple-Effect of the Past.” University of Mississippi Studies in English 10 (1992): 56-66.

Egan, Philip J. “Embedded Story Structures in Absalom, Absalom!American Literature 55 (May 1983): 199-214.

Entzminger, Betina. “‘Listen to Them Being Ghosts’: Rosa’s Words of Madness That Quentin Can’t Hear.” College Literature 25.2 (Spring 1998): 108-20.

Eyster, Kevin I. “Literary Folkloristics and Faulkner’s Fiction.” DAI 52.5 (November 1991): 1746A-47A.

Foerst, Jenny Jennings. “Crosshatching: Postgendering Structures in Absalom, Absalom! and The Golden Bowl.” DAI 59.7 (1999): 2501.

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.

Ford, Sarah Gibreath. “Oral Traditions as the Intersection of Postmodern and Southern: Faulkner, Hurston, and Welty.” DAI 58.12 June 1998): 4652-53.

Fowler, Doreen. Faulkner’s Changing Vision (1983). 41-46.

Friedman, Alan Warren. William Faulkner (1984). 54-73.

Garfield, Deborah Michelle. “Power: Women, Privation and Language in American Narrative, 1861-1936.” DAI 53.1 (July 1992): 150A.

Geoffroy, Alain. “Le Pouvoir à la lettre dans Absalom, Absalom! de William Faulkner.” Alines: Revue Angliciste de la Reunion 2-3 (1991-1992): 47-56. In French.

Geoffroy, Alain. “Through Rosa’s Looking-Glass: Narcissism and Identification in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!Mississippi Quarterly 45.3 (Summer 1992): 313-21.

Godden, Richard. “Absalom, Absalom! and Faulkner’s Erroneous Dating of the Haitian Revolution.” Mississippi Quarterly 47.3 (Summer 1994): 489-95.

Godden, Richard. “Absalom, Absalom!, Haiti and Labor History: Reading Unreadable Revolutions.” ELH 61.3 (Fall 1994): 685-720.

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.

Golden, Kenneth L. “Faulkner and the Furies.” Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness. Ed. Branimir M. Rieger. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1994. 186-96.

Goldman, Arnold, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Absalom, Absalom! Twentieth Century Interpretations Series. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

Gray, Richard. “Needing to Talk: Language and Being in Losing Battles.” The Late Novels of Eudora Welty. Ed.s Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1998. 41-55.

Hagan, John. “Déjà Vu and the Effect of Timelessness in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!Bucknell Review 11 (March 1963): 31-52.

Hagan, John. “Fact and Fancy in Absalom, Absalom!College English 24 (1962): 215-18.

Hagopian, John V. “Black Insight in Absalom, Absalom!Faulkner Studies 1 (1980): 29-37.

Halfmann, Ulrich. “Die Tryrannei der Lesererwartung: Anmerkungen zu Rezeption und Edition von Faulkners Absalom, Absalom!” Expedition nach der Wahrheit. Eds. Stefan Horlacher and Marion Islinger. Heidelberg, Germany: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1996. 567-83.

Hannon, Charles. “Teaching the Conflicts as Temporary Instructor.” College Literature 24.2 (June 1997): 126-41.

Hicks, Gina L. “Reterritorializing Desire: The Failure of Ceremony in Absalom, Absalom!” Faulkner Journal 12.2 (Spring 1997): 23-39.

Hogan. Michael. “Built on the Ashes: The Fall of the House of Sutpen and the Rise of the House of Sethe.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned. Eds. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

Holton, Robert. Jarring Witnesses: Modern Fiction and the Representation of History. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994

Irmscher, Christoph. “Facing Absalom, Absalom!” Amerikastudien/American Studies 42.4 (1997): 601-11.

Irwin, John T. Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner. 1975. Expanded ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1996.

Jones, Suzanne W. “Absalom, Absalom! and the Southern Custom of Story-telling: A Reflection of Southern Social and Literary History.” Southern Studies 24 (Spring 1985): 83-112.

Justus, James H. “Absalom, Absalom! as an Epic Novel.” Readings on William Faulkner. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1998. 149-58.

Kinney, Arthur F. Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Compson Family. Critical Essays in American Literature Series. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982.

Kinney, Arthur F. Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family. Critical Essays in American Literature Series. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1996.

Kodat, Catherine Gunther. “A Postmodern Absalom, Absalom!, a Modern Beloved: The Dialectic of Form.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned. Eds. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

Krause, David. “Opening Pandora’s Box: Re-Reading Compson’s Letter and Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!Centennial Review 30 (1986): 358-82.

Krause, David. “Reading Bon’s Letter and Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!PMLA 99 (1984): 225-41.

Krause, David. “Reading Shreve’s Letters and Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!Studies in American Fiction 11 (Autumn 1983): 153-69.

Ladd, Barbara. “‘The Direction of the Howling’: Nationalism and the Color Line in Absalom, Absalom!.” American Literature 66.3 (September 1994): 525-51.

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

Leach, Elsie. “Building One’s Own House: Walden and Absalom, Absalom.San Jose Studies 17.2 (Spring 1991): 62-83.

Lee, Kyhan. “Narration as Tragic Experience in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!” Journal of English Language & Literature (Seoul, Korea) 40.4 (Winter 1994): 743-54.

Lidsey, William D. “Disorder as Order: Absalom, Absalom!’s Inversion of the Judeo-Christian Creation Myth.” Faulkner and Religion. Eds. Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1991. 85-102.

MacLelland, Jackie. “Honor and Milly Jones in Absalom, Absalom!Mount Olive Review 6 (Spring 1992): 52-55.

Martin, Matthew Roberts. “The Frontier Plantation: Failed Innocence in Gone with the Wind and Absalom, Absalom! DAI 55.5 (November 1994): 1263A.

Martin, Reginald. “The Quest for Recognition over Reason: Charles Bon’s Death-Journey into Mississippi.” South Central Bulletin 43 (Winter 1983): 117-20.

Martin, Robert K. “Haunted Jim Crow: Gothic Fictions by Hawthorne and Faulkner.” American Gothic: New Inventions in a National Narrative. Eds. Robert K Martin and Eric Savoy. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1998. 129-42.

Maszewska, Jadwiga. “Functions of the Narrative Method in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Louise Erdrich’s Tracks.” Faulkner, His Contemporaries, and His Posterity. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Tubingen: Francke, 1993. 317-21.

Meeter, Glen. “Quentin as Redactor: Biblical Analogies in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!Faulkner and Religion. Eds. Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1991. 103-26.

Miller, J. Hillis. “Ideology and Topography in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!.” Faulkner and Ideology. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1992. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1995. 253-77.

---. “The Two Relativisms: Point of View and Indeterminacy in the Novel Absalom, Absalom!Relativism in the Arts. Ed. B. J. Craige. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1983. 148-70.

Montauzon, Christine de. Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Interpretability: The Inexplicable Unseen. Berne, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 1985.

Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth, ed. William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!: A Critical Casebook. New York: Garland, 1984.

Novak, Phillip. “Signifying Silences: Morrison’s Soundings in the Faulknerian Void.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned. Eds. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1997. 199-216.

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

Ohmine, Haruko. “The Umbilical Cord of Narrative in Absalom, Absalom!Faulkner Studies 1.1 (1991): 43-59.

Owens, Clarke. “Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!Explicator 42 (Spring 1984): 45-46.

Parker, Jo Alyson. “Strange Attractors in Absalom, Absalom!” Reading Matters: Narratives in the New Media Ecology. Eds. Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1997. 99-118.

Parker, Robert Dale. Absalom, Absalom!: The Questioning of Fictions. Twayne’s Masterwork Studies 76. New York: Twayne, 1991.

---. “The Chronology and Genealogy of Absalom, Absalom!: The Authority of Fiction and the Fiction of Authority.” Studies in American Fiction 14 (Autumn 1986): 191-98.

---. “Something Happening: Absalom, Absalom! and Imagination.” Faulkner and the Novelistic Imagination (1985). 115-46.

Parr, Susan Resneck. “The Fourteenth Image of the Blackbird: Another Look at Truth in Absalom, Absalom!Arizona Quarterly 35 (1979): 153-64.

Peters, Erskine. “The Bon Family.” Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family. Ed. Arthur F. Kinney. New York: Hall, 207-15.

Poland, Tim. “Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!Explicator 50.4 (Summer 1992): 239-41.

Polloczek, Dieter. “Gedachtnissimulationen in Faulkners Absalom, Absalom!Gedachtniskunst: Raum - Bild - Schrift. Studien zur Mnemotechnik. Eds. Anselm Haverkamp and Renate Lachmann. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1991. 409-43. In German.

Porter, Carolyn. “Absalom, Absalom!: (Un)Making the Father.” The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. Ed. Philip Weinstein. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. 168-96.

Price, Steve. “Shreve’s Bon in Absalom, Absalom!Mississippi Quarterly 39 (Summer 1986): 325-35.

Ragan, David Paul. Annotations to William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner, Annotations to the Novels Series. New York: Garland, 1991.

Ragan, David Paul. William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!: A Critical Study. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1987.

Railey, Kevin. “Absalom, Absalom! and the Southern Ideology of Race.” Faulkner Journal 14.2 (1999): 41-55.

---. “Paternalism and Liberalism: Contending Ideologies in Absalom, Absalom!Faulkner Journal 7.1-2 (Fall 1991-Spring 1992): 115-32.

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

Reichardt, Ulfried. “Perceiving and Representing Slavery and ‘Race’ through Time: William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!” Amerikastudien/American Studies 42.4 (1997): 613-24.

Riese, Utz. “Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Kafka’s The Castle: Ethical Space in Modernity’s Discourse of History.” Faulkner, His Contemporaries, and His Posterity. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Tubingen: Francke, 1993. 77-86.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr. “William Faulkner: Why, the Very Idea.” Faulkner and Ideology. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1992. Eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1995. 329-52.

Rubenstein, Roberta. “History and Story, Sign and Design: Faulknerian and Postmodern Voices in Jazz.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned. Eds. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1997. 152-64.

Ruppersburg, Hugh M. Voice and Eye in Faulkner’s Fiction (1983). 81-132.

Ruzicka, William T. “Absalom, Absalom!: ‘Something Like a Wing of Versailles.’” Faulkner’s Fictive Architecture: The Meaning of Place in the Yoknapatawpha Novels. Studies in Modern Literature 67. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI, 1987.

Ryan, Heberden W. “Behind Closed Doors: The Unknowable and the Unknowing in Absalom, Absalom!Mississippi Quarterly 45.3 (Summer 1992): 295-312.

Saldivar, Ramon. “Looking for a Master Plan: Faulkner, Paredes, and the Colonial and Postcolonial Subject.” The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. Ed. Philip Weinstein. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. 96-120.

Saunders, Rebecca. “On Lamentation and the Redistribution of Possessions: Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and the New South.” Modern Fiction Studies 42.4 (Winter 1996): 730-62.

Saunders, Rebecca Ann. “Poetics of Loss: The Modern and Its Lamentations.” DAI 56.1 (1995): 185A-86A. U of Wisconsin, Madison.

Scherer, Olga. “A Polyphonic Insert: Charles’s Letter to Judith.” Gresset and Polk, Intertextuality in Faulkner (1985). 168-77.

Schmidtberger, Loren F. “Absalom, Absalom!: What Clytie Knew.” Mississippi Quarterly 35 (Summer 1982): 255-63.

Schmidtberger, Loren. “Names in Absalom, Absalom!American Literature 55 (March 1983): 83-88.

Schultz, William J. “Just Like Father: Mr. Compson as Cavalier Romancer in Absalom, Absalom!Kansas Quarterly 14 (Spring 1982): 115-23.

Schwartz, Richard A. “Modernist American Classical Tragedy: Absalom, Absalom!Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 15.3-4 (August 1994): 212-21.

Simas, Rosa Maria. “‘Ripples,’ a ‘Gyrating Wheel’ and a ‘Spiral on a Square’: Circularity in Three Twentieth Century Novels of the Americas.” DAI 51.8 (February 1991): 2737A-38A.

---. “‘Ripples,’ ‘Una rueda giratoria,’ and ‘A Espiral e o Quadrado’: Circularity in Three Twentieth-Century Novels of the Americas. “ Translation Perspectives 6 (1991): 87-98.

Skinfill, Mauri. “Faulkner, Franklin, and the Sons of the Father.” Faulkner Journal 10.1 (Fall 1994): 29-56.

Slaughter, Carolyn Norman. “Absalom, Absalom!: ‘Fluid Cradle of Events (Time).’” Faulkner Journal 6.2 (Spring 1991): 65-84.

Smith, Beverly. “A Note on Shreve Mackenzie.” University of Mississippi Studies in English 11-12 (1995): :465.

Stanchich, Maritza. “The Hidden Caribbean ‘Other’ in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!: An Ideological Ancestry of U. S. Imperialism.” Mississippi Quarterly 49.3 (Summer 1996): 603-17.

Sundquist, Eric J. “Absalom, Absalom! and the House Divided.” Faulkner: The House Divided (1983). 96-130.

Taylor, Walter. “Clytie’s Secret.” Faulkner’s Search for a South (1983). 99-117.

Torsney, Cheryl B. “The Vampire Motif in Absalom, Absalom!Southern Review 20 (Summer 1984): 562-69.

Valente, Luiz Fernando. “Marriages of Speaking and Hearing: Meditation and Response in Absalom, Absalom! and Grande Sertao: Veredas.” Faulkner Journal 11.1-2 (Fall 1995-Spring 1996): 149-64.

Vegso, Roland. “‘Let Me Play a While Now’: The Hermeneutics of Heritage and William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 42.4 (1997): 625-36.

Vendrame, Alessandra. “Toni Morrison: A Faulknerian Novelist?” Amerikastudien/American Studies 42.4 (1997): 679-84.

Wadlington, Warwick. “The House of Absalom, Absalom!: Voices, Daughters, and the Question of Catharsis.” Reading Faulknerian Tragedy (1987). 170-219.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. “Rosa Coldfield as Daughter: Another of Faulkner’s Lost Children.” Studies in American Fiction 19.1 (Spring 1991): 1-13.

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