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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

Fowler and Abadie

Fifty Years of Yoknapatawpha

(out of print)

ISBN: 0878051228

ISBN: 087805121X

Guilds and Collins

William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier

Hardcover

ISBN: 0820318876

Honnighausen, Löthar

Faulkner’s Discourse: An International Symposium

ISBN: 3484401168

Kolmerten, et al.

Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned

Hardcover

ISBN: 0878059555

Paperback

ISBN: 0878059563

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Fowler, Doreen. “Reading for the ‘Other Side’: Beloved and Requiem for a Nun.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned. Eds. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

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

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

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

Luce, Dianne C. “John A Murrell and the Imaginations of Simms and Faulkner.”  William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier. Eds. John Caldwell Guilds and Caroline Collins. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1997. 237-57.

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

Polk, Noel. Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun: A Critical Study. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1981.

Reames, Kelly Lynch. “‘All That Matters Is That I Wrote the Letters’: Discourse, Discipline, and Difference in Requiem for a Nun.” Faulkner Journal 14.1 (Fall 1998): 31-52.

Wittenberg, Judith Bryant. “Temple Drake and La Parole pleine.” Mississippi Quarterly 48.3 (Summer 1995): 421-41.

Wondra, Janet. “‘Play’ within a Play: Gaming with Language in Requiem for a Nun.” Faulkner Journal 8. 1 (Fall 1992): 43-59.

Zender, Karl F. “Where Is Yoknapatawpha County? William Faulkner, John Updike, and Postwar America.” Faulkner, His Contemporaries, and His Posterity. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Tubingen: Francke, 1993. 284-300.

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