Further Reading
- Casciato, Arthur D., and James L. W. West III, Critical Essays on William Styron, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1982, 318 p. (A collection of reviews and essays, including several essays on The Long March.)
- Coale, Samuel, William Styron Revisited, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991, 149 p. (Biocritical study of Styron.)
- Crane, John Kenny, "Forced Marches: 'Marriot the Marine' and The Long March" in The Root of All Evil: The Thematic Unity of William Styron's Fiction, pp. 59-77, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1984. (Discusses the contradiction of Mannix's self-canceling heroism and Templeton as a symbol of the church.)
- Firestone, Bruce M., "The Early Apprenticeship of William Styron," Studies in Short Fiction (Fall 1981): 430-43. (Considers Styron's earliest short stories as a testing ground for new material.)
- Fossum, Robert H., "Christ on a Crutch: The Long March" in William Styron: A Critical Essay, pp. 20-5, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1968. (Discusses The Long March from a Christian perspective, arguing that the story suggests that when the sacred power of God has been replaced by the debased theology and dogma of war, man's rebellion is both necessary and heroic.)
- Friedman, Melvin J., William Styron, Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1974, 72 p. (Favorable biographical and critical study of Styron's fiction. The work includes a brief discussion of The Long March, specifically as a contribution to the "literature of violence.")
- Geismar, Maxwell, "William Styron: The End of Innocence" in American Moderns: From Rebellion to Conformity, pp. 239-50, New York: Hill and Wang, 1958. (Argues that Styron's dark view of life in The Long March corresponds to the bleakness of the Cold War period in the United States.)
- Leon, Philip W., William Styron: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978, 129 p. (Detailed bibliography, including a biographical chronology, primary and secondary sources, an index of critics' names, and a subject index.)
- Mackin, Cooper R., William Styron, Austin, TX: Steck-Vaughn Co., 1969, 43 p. (Discusses Styron as a Southern writer.)
- Mudrick, Marvin, "Mailer and Styron: Guests of the Establishment," Hudson Review XVII (1964): 346-66. (Compares Styron's The Long March to Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead. The critic dismisses Styron's novella as imitative and uninspired.)
- Pearce, Richard, William Styron, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971, 47 p. (Critical overview of Styron's work, discussing themes, structure, symbolism, and influences.)
- Ratner, Marc L., William Styron, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1972, 170 p. (Study of Styron's life and work.)
- West, James L. W., "William Styron's Afterword to The Long March" Mississippi Quarterly XXVIII, No. 2 (Spring 1975): 185-89. (First English reprint of the afterword to the Norwegian edition of The Long March, introduced by West.)
- West, James L. W., ed., Conversations with William Styron, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1985.
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