The Ink of Melancholy : Faulkner's Novels from the Sound and the Fury to Light in August.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- EDITIONS CITED AND ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction: Masks and Mirrors -- One. The Struggle with the Angel -- I. The Quest for Eurydice -- II. The Agony of Dispossession -- III. The Young Man, Desire, and Death -- IV. Of Time and the Unreal -- V. The Poison of Resentment -- VI. An Easter without Resurrection? -- Two. Requiem for a Mother -- VII. A "Tour de Force -- VIII. A Dying Life, a Living Death -- IX. Turns of Madness -- X. The Real and Its Representations -- Three. The Blackness of Darkness -- XI. "The Most Horrific Tale -- XII. Terror and Transgression -- XIII. The Madness of Bodies -- XIV. The Infernal Nursery -- Four. Versions of the Sun -- XV. In Praise of Helen -- XVI. The Cracked Urns -- XVII. The Perils of Purity -- XVIII. The Fathers -- XIX. Circles -- Epilogue: Under the Sign of Saturn -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Brilliant in its thought and argument, Ink of Melancholy is one of the most insightful and stimulating studies of Faulkner's work.

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