San Antonio College Library

Discusses Gavin Stevens, Byron Bunch, V.K. Ratliff, McCaslin, Colonel John Sartoris, Joe Christmas, Thomas Sutpen, and other comic heroes and villains.

This is the first book to show in detail how the families William Faulkner created in his novels reflect his own family experiences. Gwendolyn Chabrier shows how Faulkner's earliest work presents a gloomy view of family relations, characterized by misalliance, adultery, and incestuous relationships. But then, drawing on his own experience, Faulkner gradually came to a new view of the family, both his own and those he created, and worked through to...

"How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi,...

Examines the portrayal of segregated Southern society in Faulkner's fiction and describes how he used the myths and attitudes surrounding Southern Blacks.