CRITICISM

Banta, Martha. “The Razor, the Pistol, and the Ideology of Race Etiquette.” In Faulkner and Ideology: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1992, edited by Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie, pp. 172-216. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.

Examines the culture of weaponry and racial ideology in the American South as they are represented in Faulkner's “Fire and the Hearth” and Light in August.

Grimwood, Michael. Heart in Conflict: Faulkner's Struggles with Vocation. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987, 378 p.

Explores two phases in Faulkner's life—youth and middle age—in which he struggled to develop and maintain his notions of literary vocation.

Hoffman, Daniel. Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989, 181 p.

Traces Faulkner's use of the Southern oral tradition throughout his development of his mythical Yoknapatawpha County.

Kartiganer, Donald M. “‘So I, Who Had Never Had a War …’: William Faulkner, War, and the Modern Imagination.” Modern Fiction Studies 44, no. 3 (fall 1998): 619-45.

Comments on the shadows of the Civil War, World War I, and World War II in Faulkner's fiction.

Lencho, Mark W. “Dialect Variation in The Sound and the Fury: A Study of Faulkner's Use of Black English.” Mississippi Quarterly 41, no. 3 (summer 1988): 403-19.

Examines differing examples of Faulkner's portrayal of Southern black dialect in The Sound and the Fury.

Lester, Cheryl. “To Market, to Market: The Portable Faulkner.” Criticism 29, no. 3 (summer 1987): 371-89.

Discusses the development of The Portable Faulkner and the effects the volume had on Faulkner's literary reputation.

Singal, Daniel J. William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997, 357 p.

Traces Faulkner's development as a modernist writer.

Watson, James G. William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000, 255 p.

Discusses Faulkner's presentation of his life—and the ways that he molded this presentation—as it appears in his fiction.

Werlock, Abby H. P. “Victims Unvanquished: Temple Drake and Women Characters in William Faulkner's Novels.” In Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection, edited by Katherine Anne Ackley, pp. 3-49. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990.

Argues that Faulkner attempted to speak through his female characters to highlight the degree to which his abusive male characters were isolated.

Additional coverage of Faulkner's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers; American Writers Retrospective Supplement, Vol. 1; Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 7; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 1; Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, Vol. 5; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1929-1941; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 81-84; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 33; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 18, 28, 52, 68; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 9, 11, 44, 102; Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Vol. 2; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1986, 1997; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors and Novelists; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Exploring Novels; Exploring Short Stories; Literary Movements for Students, Vol. 2; Literature and Its Times, Vol. 2; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Novels for Students, Vols. 4, 8, 13; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; Short Stories for Students, Vols. 2, 5, 6, 12; Short Story Criticism, Vols. 1, 35, 42; Twayne's United States Authors; and World Literature Criticism.