William Faulkner : A Life Through Novels.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (552 pages)
Cover -- William Faulkner -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Testimony and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Fa(u)lkner, Mississippi -- A Little History, a Little Geography -- Three Fathers, Two Mothers -- Childhood -- The Attitudes of Adolescence -- 2 Apprenticeships -- Pan and Pierrot: The First Masks -- (Self)criticism -- In New Orleans -- The Switch to Prose -- 3 Birth of a Novelist -- The First Novel: Soldiers' Pay -- An American in Paris -- Incomplete Portrait of the Artist as an Artist: Elmer -- A Diversion: Mosquitoes -- 4 The First Flowering -- The Invention of Yoknapatawpha: Flags in the Dust -- The Most Splendid Failure: The Sound and the Fury -- The Most Horrific Story: Sanctuary -- Mourning Becomes the Bundrens: As I Lay Dying -- Versions of the Sun: Light in August -- 5 Midway -- Scenes from Married Life -- The Master of Rowan Oak -- The First Shadows -- Back and Forth to Hollywood -- Meta -- 6 From Pylon to Go Down, Moses -- The Hell of Fascination: Pylon -- The Novel as Research: Absalom, Absalom! -- Southern Tales: The Unvanquished -- Fault Lines, Flux, and Floods: If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem -- A Comical Pastoral: The Hamlet -- Legacies: Go Down, Moses -- 7 The Dark Years -- Dire Straits -- Hollywood Again -- Lucas's Lesson: Intruder in the Dust -- A Conventional Detective Story: Knight's Gambit -- Joan -- 8 Fame-At Last -- The Nobel Prize -- The Public Man -- Setbacks, Distress, and Other Miseries -- Requiem for a Nun: The Education of Temple Drake -- The Gospel According to Faulkner: A Fable -- 9 The End -- The Virginia Years -- The Snopes, Second and Final Installment: The Town and The Mansion -- The Farewell Smile: The Reivers -- The Rider Unseated -- Chronology -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Works.