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Anderson, Sherwood 4, 14 Winesburg, Ohio 4, 14 Aviation 3, 37–8 Barr Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-67155-2 - The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner Theresa M. Towner Index More information Index Anderson, Sherwood 4, 14 chronology 11 Winesburg, Ohio 4, 14 financial troubles of 5–6, 7 aviation 3, 37–8 Hollywood, work in 91–2 literary reputation of 6–7, 82, 97, Barr, Caroline 2 98 Nobel Prize for Literature 7, 90, 94, Civil War 46, 89 96, 97, 98 Cold War 90, 99 Nobel Prize address 7, 82–3, 90, Cowley, Malcolm 6, 80, 82 98 The Faulkner-Cowley File 6, 95 opinions of other writers 91, 92–3, cultural studies criticism 101 94 works deconstructionist criticism 100–1 Absalom, Absalom! 37, 39–46, 77, Du Bois, W. E. B. 90 80–1, 96 The Souls of Black Folk 91 “Afternoon of a Cow” 78 AsILayDying24–8, 89, 96, 100, Eliot, T. S. 12, 39, 88, 89 102 “The Love Song of J. Alfred “Barn Burning” 76–7 Prufrock” 39, 88 “The Bear” 76 The Waste Land 13, 14, 85, “Carcassonne” 61, 80, 102 88–9 “Centaur in Brass” 68, 79 Ellison, Ralph 93 Collected Stories 75, 80 ethnicity 100 Compson Appendix 23 “A Courtship” 78 Falkner, Dean (youngest brother) 5 “Dry September” 78 Falkner, John Wesley Thompson A Fable 7, 9, 60, 66–8, 97, 98, (grandfather) 2 102 Falkner, William Clark Father Abraham 55 (great-grandfather) 1–2 The Faulkner Reader 76 Faulkner, Alabama (daughter) 5 Flags in the Dust 15–16, 28, 46; see Faulkner, Estelle Oldham (wife) 2–3, 5 also Sartoris Faulkner, Jill (daughter) 5, 7 Go Down, Moses 55–62, 89, 97, Faulkner, William 100 alcohol, use of 5, 8–9 “Golden Land” 91 110 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-67155-2 - The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner Theresa M. Towner Index More information Index 111 “A Guest’s Impression of New “Turnabout” 77 England” 82 “Two Soldiers” 77 The Hamlet 51–5, 68, 100 The Unvanquished 46–8, 55 If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem 29–30, “Wash” 77–8 48–51, 102; see also The Wild The Wild Palms 48–51; see also If I Palms Forget Thee, Jerusalem Intruder in the Dust 62–4, 97 feminist criticism 101, 102 Knight’s Gambit 78, 80, 97 First World War see Great War “Landing in Luck” 37 Freud, Sigmund 94 “L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune” 11 Light in August 32–7, 87, 88, 89, gender roles and themes 14–15, 33, 35, 97, 98, 100 47, 63, 99–100 “Lo!” 79 Great War 12, 66, 77, 89 The Mansion 69–72, 81, 95, 102 Hemingway, Ernest 12, 92, 93, 97 The Marble Faun 4 The Sun Also Rises 12 Mosquitoes 4, 14–15, 16, 18, 89 history 89–90 “Mule in the Yard” 79 of the South 40, 45, 100 “My Grandmother Millard” 78 Housman, A. E. 85, 86 nonfiction 81–3, 90, 91, 98 “To an Athlete Dying Young” 86 “Old Man” 76 The Portable Faulkner 76, 95, Joyce, James 12, 88, 89 97 Ulysses 14, 88, 89 Pylon 37–9, 88 The Reivers 66, 72–5, 89 Marxist criticism 101 Requiem for a Nun 14, 64–6, 97, modernism 12–13, 38, 40 102 Morrison, Toni 93–4 “A Rose for Emily” 76 Sanctuary 16, 28–32, 64, 87, 96, narratology 100 100 New Criticism 99, 100 Sartoris 4, 15–16, 46, 96, see also Flags in the Dust O’Connor, Flannery 93 “Shingles for the Lord” 79–80 short stories 5, 46, 75–81 postmodernist criticism 102 Snopes trilogy 55, 68, 69, see also poststructuralist criticism 101 The Hamlet, The Town, The Pound, Ezra 12 Mansion psychoanalytic criticism 101 Soldiers’ Pay 12–14, 96 The Sound and the Fury 4, 16–24, race relations, American 8, 40, 45, 62 28, 40, 80–1, 87, 89, 92, 96, 98, WF’s ideas about 8, 82, 90–1, 92, 100, 102 93 title 17 racial identity and themes 33–4, 35, 42, “Spotted Horses” 76 56–7, 60, 61, 62–3, 64, 73–4, “That Evening Sun” 78, 80–1 77–8, 79, 100, 102 The Town 68–9 Romantic poets 86 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-67155-2 - The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner Theresa M. Towner Index More information 112 Index Second World War 90, 91 Twain, Mark 72 Pearl Harbor 77 sexuality 14–15, 16, 29–30, 35, 42, Verlaine, Paul 87 57, 60, 61, 74, 87, 102 Shakespeare, William 17, 86 Welty, Eudora 93 Macbeth 17, 39 Whitman, Walt 72 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 86 Wolfe, Thomas 92 Stone, Phil 3, 85 Wright, Richard 93 structuralist criticism 100 Native Son 91, 93 Swinburne, Algernon Charles 85–6 Yoknapatawpha County 11, 24, 28, 46, Symbolists 87 72 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org.
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