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FURTHER READING

Biographies

Blotner, Joseph. Faulkner: A Biography. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2005, 778 p.

Originally published in 1974, this is an updated version of what is considered by many to be the definitive Faulkner biography.

Parini, Jay. One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner. New York: Harper Collins, 2004, 512 p.

Biography that includes interviews with Faulkner's friends and family, and an examination of each of Faulkner's works.

Criticism

Burns, Margie. "A Good Rose Is Hard to Find: Southern Gothic as Signs of Social Dislocation in Faulkner and O'Connor." In Image and Ideology in Modern/Postmodern Discourse, pp. 105-23. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.

Contends that Southern Gothic is a literary technique that both represents and hides the...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. William Faulkner (Story Date 1930)
4. General Commentary
   1. Elizabeth M. Kerr (Essay Date 1979)
5. Title Commentary
   1. "A Rose for Emily"
   2. Sanctuary
6. Further Reading

1. William Faulkner