The Life of William Faulkner A Critical

In this major reassessment, now available in paperback, Richard Gray uses and develops recent theories about the relationship between writing and historical experience, language and social change, to draw a brilliantly detailed portrait of the place and times Faulkner inhabited. Attending closely to each of the novels, Gray shows how they brim with an often undisclosed biography that is at once personal and cultural.

Richard Gray is Professor of English at the University of Essex. His previous books include Writing the South: Ideas of Writers Region (1986), which won the C. Hugh Holman Award.

List of Illustrations

ix

Preface

xi

Fictions of History: An Approach to Faulkner

On Privacy: Faulkner and the Human Subject

1

(11)

History as Autobiography: The World of Faulkner

12

(48)

Autobiography as History: The Life of Faulkner

60

(26)

Faulkner the Apprentice

Trying Out Different Voices: The Early Prose and Poetry

86

(24)

Of Loss and Longing: Soldier's Pay and Mosquitoes

110

(17)

Rewriting the Homeplace

Ancestor Worship, Patricide and the Epic Past: Flags in the Dust and Sartoris

127

(9)

Voices, Absence and Cultural Autobiography: The Sound and the Fury

136

(14)

A Southern Carnival: As I Lay Dying

150

(13)

And Woman Was Invented: Sanctuary

163

(14)

Of Past and Present Conflicts

Language, Power and the Verbal Community: Light in August

177

(16)

The Virile Pilot and the Seductions of the Air: Pylon

193

(10)

History is What Hurts: Absalom, Absalom!

203

(22)

The Plantation Romance and the Madwoman in the Attic: The Unvanquished

225

(14)

Public Faces and Private Places

Now About These Women: The Wild Palms

239

(14)

Let's Make a Deal: The Hamlet

253

(18)

Things Fall Apart: Go Down, Moses

271

(18)

Watching the Detectives: Intruder in the Dust

289

(15)

The Way Home

Finished and Unfinished Business: Knight's Gambit and Requiem for a Nun

304

(17)

Of Crowds, Control and Courage: A Fable

321

(14)

Distant Voices, Desperate Lives: The Town

335

(11)

Then the Letting Go: The Mansion

346

(12)

Postscript: Back to Earth

The Romance of the Family: The Reivers

358

(13)

`I Was Here'

371

(3)

Faulkner Family Trees

The Falkners

374

(2)

Faulkner's Wife

376

(1)

`The Old Colonel's Second Wife and Family

377

(1)

Faulkner's Mother

378

(1)

Chronology

379

(12)

Notes

391

(31)

Bibliography

422

(13)

Index

435

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