CRIME, JUSTICE, AND LAW
IN WILLIAM FAULKNER
A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF SECONDARY SOURCES
Copyright c 1994 by Christine Alice Corcos
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Bibliographies and Research Aids
CRIME, JUSTICE, AND LAW IN WILLIAM FAULKNER
A SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY SOURCES(1)
Bibliographies and Research Aids
Edmund Volpe, A Reader's Guide To William Faulkner (1964).
Joseph Blotner, William Faulkner: Author-in-Law, 4 Miss. C. L. Rev. 275 (1984).
Harvey Breit, Faulkner After Eight Years: A Novel of Murder and Morality, New York Times Book Review, September 26, 1948, at 4.
Cleanth Brooks, Gavin Stevens and the Chivalric Tradition, in On the Predelictions, Prejudices, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner 92 (1987).
Cleanth Brooks, William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond (1978).
Calvin S. Brown, Faulkner's Localism, in Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1977 160 (Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie eds. 1978).
John G. Cawelti, Faulkner and the Detective Story's Double Plot, 12 Clues 1 (Fall/Winter 1991).
Anthony B. Dawson, Women Beware Women and the Economy of Rape, 27 Studies in Eng. Lit. 1500-1900 303 (1987). Discusses Middleton's influence on Faulkner.
William C. Doster, The Several Faces of Gavin Stevens, 11 Miss Q. 191 (Fall 1958).
Mary Montgomery Dunlap, The Achievement of Gavin Stevens (Dissertation, University of South Carolina, 1970).
Robert A. Ferguson, Law and Lawyers in Faulkner's Life and Art: A Comment, 4 Miss. Coll. L. Rev. 213 (1984).
Mary C. Flannery and John G. Cawelti, Gavin Stevens: Faulkner's Favorite, 4 ANQ 21 (January 1991).
Istvan Geher, A Child's Eye View of Tragedy: Faulkner's Mixed Metaphor, 23 Acta Litteraria Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 281 (1981).
Mick Gidley, Elements of the Detective Story in William Faulkner's Fiction, 1973 J. Popular Culture 97.
Albert Joseph Guerard, Justice in Yoknapatawpha: Some Symbolic Motifs, 2 Faulkner Studies 49 (Winter 1954).
Albert Joseph Guerard, The Triumph of the Novel: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Faulkner (1976).
Marta Powell Harley, Faulkner's Medievalism and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 21 Am. Notes and Queries 111 (March/April 1983).
On Gavin Stevens.
John C. Inscoe, Faulkner, Race, and Appalachia, 86 South Atl. Q. 244 (1987).
John T. Irwin, Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner (1975).
John Francis Jebb III, The Law, Justice, and Faulkner's Gavin Stevens (Dissertation, University of Delaware, 1990).
E. Grady Jolly, Feelings For Flem, Faulkner and Federalism, 4 Miss. C. L. Rev. 217 (1984).
Peter Wilson Jordan, Faulkner's Crime Fiction: His Use of the Detective Story and the Thriller (Dissertation, University of Connecticut, 1973). Bibliography: leaves 201-215.
Michael Lahey, Women and law in Faulkner, 22 Women's Studies 517 (1993).
David A. Leiby, The Tooth That Gnaws: Reflections on Time Travel; Alternatives, in Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction 107 (George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin eds. 1987).
Thomas David Lisk, Love, Law and the Nature of Character (Dissertation, 1975).
The Maker and the Myth: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1977 (Evans Harrington and Ann J. Abadie eds. 1978).
Linda E. McDaniel, Horace Benbow: Faulkner's Endymion, 33 Miss. Q. 363 (1980).
Thomas L. McHaney, Papers By Noel Polk and Morris Wolff, 4 Miss. C. L. Rev. 265 (1984).
L. K. Miller, The Artist As Historian: The Southern Frontier and the Writing of History in the Fiction of William Gilmore Simms, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty (Dissertation, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1987).
R. E. Millis, Humanistic and Legal Values in Some Works of Faulkner (Dissertation, University of Iowa, 1977).
Arthur Mizener, The Thin, Intelligent Face of American Fiction, 17 Kenyon Rev. 507 (1955). On Gavin Stevens
Wesley Morris & Barbara Alverson Morris, Reading Faulkner (1989)(The Wisconsin Project on American Writers).
Frances Blazer O'Brien, Faulkner and Wright, Alias S. S. van Dine, 14 Miss. Q. 101 (1961).
Richard Pearce, The Politics of Narration: James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Virginia Woolf (1991). Bibliography: 179-185.
Noel Polk, `I Taken an Oath of Office Too': Faulkner and the Law, in Fifty Years of Yoknopatawpha: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 159 (Doreen Fowler & Ann J. Abadie eds. 1979).
Peter J. Rabinowitz, The Click of the Spring: The Detective Story as Parallel Structure in Dostoevski and Faulkner, 76 Modern Philology 355 (1979).
Linda Lussier Rowlett, Ritual, Community, and Alienation: Studies in Lytle, Tate, and Faulkner (Dissertation, Rice University, 1984).
Norman Rudich, Faulkner and the Sin of Private Property, 17 The Minnesota Review (Stony Brook, NY) 55 (1981).
Scherer, La Contestation du Jugement sur Pieces Chez Dostoevski et Faulkner, 3 Delta: Revue du Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche 47 (1976).
Glenn L. Schilling, Faulkner and Justice (Master's thesis, University of Louisville, 1991).
Carl S. Singleton, Gavin Stevens: Faulkner's `Good Man' (Dissertation, Loyola University of Chicago, 1982).
Susan Snell, Phil Stone and William Faulkner: The Lawyer and `The Poet', 4 Miss. C. L. Rev. 169 (1984). Symposium: The Law and Southern Literature.
Susan Snell, Phil Stone of Yoknapatawpha (Dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1978).
Peter Swiggart, The Art of Faulkner's Novels (1962).
Deborah Ann Thompson, In Celebration of Outrage: William Faulkner and the Tragic Vision (Dissertation, University of Oregon, 1980).
Susan Hayes Tully, Joanna Burden: "It's the Dead Folks That Do Him the Damage, 40 Miss. Q. 355 (1987).
Olga W. Vickery, Gavin Stevens: From Rhetoric to Dialectic, 2 Faulkner Studies, 1 (Spring 1953).
Christopher Waldrep, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, and the Law, 2 Southern Studies 39 (Spring 1991).
K. F. Warne, Language In Faulkner's Trilogy: Truth and Fiction (Dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 1980).
Jay (Judson Durward) Watson III, Forensic fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner (1993).
Judson Durward Watson III,
Faulkner's Men at Law: Storytelling and Courtroom Drama (Dissertation, Harvard
University, 1990).
Richard H. Weisberg, The
Quest for Silence: Faulkner's Lawyer in a Comparative Setting, 4 Miss. Coll. L.
Rev. 193 (1984).
Jean Weisberger, Faulkner's
Monomaniacs: Their Indebtedness to Raskolnikov, 6 Comp. Lit. Studies 181
(1968).
William Faulkner of
Oxford (James W. Webb and A. Wigfall Green, eds. 1965).
Morris Wolff, Faulkner's
Knowledge of the Law, 4 Miss. C. L. Rev. 245 (1984).
Charles Lowell Woodward, The
Spirit and the Letter of the Law in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County (Master's
thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1966). Bibliography: leaves 108-110.
Kenneth Patrick Wright, The
Law and Its Enforcers in Faulkner's Trilogy (Master's Thesis, University of North
Texas, 1989).
J. M. Yonke, William
Faulkner As a Moralist and Cultural Critic: A Comparison of His Views With Those of
Historians and Social Scientists (Dissertation, University of Kansas, 1981).
John D. Kalb, The Second "Rape" of Crystal Spangler, 21 Southern Literary J. 23 (Fall 1988).
Short Stories
Barry R. Schaller, Faulkner's
Law: An Analysis of the Interaction of Law and Codes in William Faulkner's Short Fiction,
12 Bridgeport Law Review 715 (1992).
Wolfgang E. Schlepper, William
Faulkner's Detective Stories, 222 Archiv Fuer das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und
Literaturen 136 (1985).
Absalom, Absalom!
Karen Ann Butery, From
Conflict to Suicide: The Inner Turmoil of Quentin Compson, 49 American Journal of
Psychoanalysis 211 (September 1989).
Hironori Hayase, Absalom,
Absalom! The Meaning of Charles Bon's Murder, 28 Kyushu/American Literature 81
(October 1987).
Virginia Hlavsa, The
Vision of the Advocate in Absalom, Absalom!, 8 Novel 51 (Fall 1974).
Marvin K. Singleton, Personae
at Law and Equity: The Unity of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! 3 Papers on
Language and Literature 354 (1967).
Samuel Dibble Watson, Innocence
and dimensions of justice of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! (Master's thesis, University
of Virginia, 1965).
Richard F. Peterson, An Early Judgement of Anderson and Joyce in Faulkner's Artist at Home, 18 Kyushu Am. Lit. 19 (1977).
Doreen Fowler, Matricide and the Mother's Revenge: As I Lay Dying, 4 The Faulkner Journal (Akron OH) 113 (Fall 1989/Spring 1990).
Taketoshi Honma, Shi no Toko ni Yokotawarite: Addi Bundren no 'Fukushu' no Imi o Megutte II, in Bungaku to America: Ohashi Kenzaburo Kinen Ronbunshy 243 (1980).
M. E. Bradford, Family and Community in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning', 17 The Southern Rev. 332 (1981).
Jane Hiles, Kinship and heredity in Faulkner's Barn burning, 38 Mississippi Quarterly 329 (1985).
Brenda Eve Sartoris, Cornbote: A Feudal Custom and Faulkner's Barn Burning, 11 Studies in American Fiction 91 (Spring 1983).
John H. Scharr, Community or Contract? William Faulkner and the Dual Legacy, in The Problem of Authority in America 93 (John P. Diggins and Mark E. Kann eds. 1981). Also published at 3 Humanities in Society 169 (Spring 1980).
J. E. Bassett, Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen, by William Faulkner, 18 Resources for American Literary Study 105 (1992).
Alice Hall Petry, Double
Murder: The Women of Faulkner's 'Elly', in Faulkner and Women: Faulkner and
Yoknapatawpha 220 (1985).
The Fire and the Hearth
John N. Duvall, Silencing
Women in `The Fire and the Hearth' and `Tomorrow', 16 College Literature 75
(1989).
Flags in the Dust
John Earl Bassett, Faulkner, Sartoris, Benbow: Shifting Conflict in Flags in the Dust, 20 Southern Studies 39 (Spring 1981).
Philip Cohen, Madame Bovary and Flags in the Dust: Flaubert's Influence on Faulkner, 22 Comparative Literature Studies 344 (Fall 1985).
John W. Corrington, Escape into Myth: The Long Dying of Bayard Sartoris, 4 Recherches Anglaises et Americaines 31 (1971).
Katherine C. Hodgin, Horace Benbow and Bayard Sartoris: Two Romantic Figures in Faulkner's Flags in the Dust, 50 Am. Lit. 647 (1979).
Pamela E. Rhodes, Who Killed Simon Strother, and Why? Race and Counterplot in Flags in the Dust, in Faulkner and Race: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1986 93 (Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie 1987).
Diane Roberts, Ravished Belles: Stories of Rape and Resistance in Flags in the Dust and Sanctuary, 4 Faulkner J. 21 (Fall
Thadious M. Davis, Crying in the Wilderness: Legal, Racial, and Moral Codes in Go Down, Moses, 4 Miss. C. L. Rev. 299 (1984).
William P. Dawson, Fate and Freedom: The Classical Background of Go Down, Moses, 43 Miss. Q. 387 (1990).
Mick Gidley, Sam Fathers's Fathers: Indians and the Idea of Inheritance, in Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The McCaslin Family 121 (Arthur F. Kinney, ed. 1990)(Critical Essays in American Literature).
Kathryn Burgess McKee, Men still long for justice: the final stands of Asa Timberlake, Ike McCaslin and Jeremiah Beaumont (Master's thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989).
Hair
Judson Durward Watson III,
"Hair", "Smoke", and the Development of the Faulknerian Lawyer
Character, 43 Miss. Q. 349 (1990).
David M. Monaghan, Faulkner's Relationship to Gavin Steven sin Intruder in the Dust, 52 Dalhousie Rev. 449 (Autumn 1972).
Martha O'Nan, 'Du homme' in William Faulkner's Texts, in Pubs, Place-Names, and Patronymics: Selected Papers of the Names Institute 152 (E. Wallace McMullen ed. 1980)(Publications of the Names Institute; 1).
Mary Montgomery Dunlap, William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit and Gavin Stevens, 23 Miss. Q. 223 (Summer 1970).
Mark Gidley, Elements of the Detective Story in William Faulkner's Fiction, 7 J. Popular Culture 97 (1973).
Michael Grimwood, Heart in Conflict: Faulkner's Struggles With Vocation (1987).
Kelley Hayden, William Faulkner's "Knight's Gambit": A Study (Dissertation, University of Kansas, 1983).
John T. Irwin, Knight's Gambit: Poe, Faulkner, and the Tradition of the Detective Story, 46 Arizona Quarterly 95 (Winter 1990).
Peter Wilson Jordan, Faulkner's Crime Fiction: His Use of the Detective Story and the Thriller (Master's thesis, University of Connecticut, 1973).
Peter Wilson Jordan, Faulkner's Crime Fiction: His Use of the Detective Story and the Thriller (Dissertation, University of Connecticut, 1974).
Jerome Klinkowitz, Faulkner's Community: Thematic Unity in Knight's Gambit, in The Practice of Fiction in America 55 (1980).
Patrick Samway, Gavin Stevens as Uncle-Creator in Knight's Gambit, in Faulkner and Idealism: Perspectives From Paris 144 (Michel Gresset ed. 1983).
William Schafer, Faulkner's Gambit, 23 Armchair Detective 282 (Summer 1990).
Wolfgang E. Schlepper, Truth and Justice in Knight's Gambit, 37 Mississippi Quarterly 365 (1984).
Hans Skei, Faulkner's Knight's Gambit: Detection and Ingenuity, 13 Notes on Mississippi Writers 79 (1981).
Edmond L. Volpe, Faulkner's Knight's Gambit: Sentimentality and the Creative Imagination, 24 Modern Fiction Studies 232 (1978).
Deborah Clarke, Gender, Race, and Language in Light in August, 61 Am. Lit. 398 (1989).
John N. Duvall, Murder and the Communities; Ideology In and Around Light in August, 20 Novel 101 (1987).
Marjorie B. Haselswerdt, "Keep Your Muck": A Horneyan Analysis of Joe Christmas and Light in August, in Third Force Pyschology and the Study of Literature 206 (Bernard J. Paris ed. 1986).
Michael Millgate, 'A Novel: Not an Anecdote': Faulkner's Light in August, in New Essays on Light in August 31 (Michael Millgate ed. 1987)(American Novel).
Donald Palumbo, Coincidence in Crime and Punishment and Light in August: Evidence of Supernatural Agents at Work in the Novels of Dostoyevsky and Faulkner, 7 Lamar Journal of the Humanities 41 (Spring 1981).
M. K. Mumbach, "Remaining Must Remain": Patterns of Christian Comedy in Faulkner's "The Mansion" (Dissertation, University of Dallas, 1977).
Edmond L. Volpe, Faulkner's "Monk": The Detective Story and the Mystery of the Human Heart, 1 Faulkner Studies 86 (1980).
Susie Paul Johnson, The Killer in Pylon, 40 Miss. Q. 401 (1987).
Floyd C. Watkins, Sacrificial rituals and anguish in the victim's heart in Red Leaves, 30 Studies in Short Fiction 71 (Winter 1993).
John E. Bassett, Requiem for a Nun: Revising Temple Drake, in Heir and Prototype: Original and Derived Characterizations in Faulkner 48 (Dan Ford ed. 1987).
Doreen Fowler, Time and Punishment in Faulkner's Requiem For a Nun, 38 Renascence 245 (1986).
T. H. Adamowski, Faulkner's Popeye: The "Other" As Self, 8 Can. Rev. Am. Studies 36 (Spring 1977).
John E. Bassett, Requiem for a Nun: Revising Temple Drake, in Heir and Prototype: Original and Derived Characterizations in Faulkner 48 (Dan Ford ed. 1987).
Kevin A. Boon, The Brainwashing of Temple Drake: William Faulkner's Sanctuary (Master's thesis, University of South Florida, 1991). Bibliography: leaves 36-38.
Charles Chappell, The Memphis Lawyer and His Spine: Another Piece in the Sanctuary Puzzle, 13 Essays in Literature 331 (1986).
Dianne Luce Cox, A Measure of Innocence; Sanctuary's Temple Drake, 39 Miss. Q. 301 (1986).
Terry Heller, Mirrored Worlds and the Gothic in Faulkner's Sanctuary, 42 Miss. Q. 247 (1989).
Myles Hurd, Faulkner's Horace Benbow: The Burden of Characterization and the Confusion of Meaning in Sanctuary, 23 Coll. Lang. Assn. J. 416 (1980).
John T. Matthews, The Elliptical Nature of Sanctuary, 17 Novel 246 (Spring 1984).
Michael Millgate, Undue Process: William Faulkner's Sanctuary, in Rough Justice: Essays on Crime in Literature 157 (M. L. Friedland ed. 1991).
Noel Polk, Law in Faulkner's Sanctuary, 4 Miss. C. L. Rev. 227 (1984).
Diane Roberts, Ravished Belles: Stories of Rape and Resistance in Flags in the Dust and Sanctuary, 4 Faulkner J. 21 (Fall
Laura E. Tanner, Reading Rape: Sanctuary and The Women of Brewster Place, 62 Am. Lit. 559 (1990).
Joseph R. Urgo, Temple Drake's Truthful Perjury: Rethinking Faulkner's Sanctuary, 55 Am. Lit. 435 (1983).
Kenneth Patrick Wright, The Law and Its Enforcers in Faulkner's Trilogy (1989). Master's thesis, University of North Texas, 1989>
Michael E. Lahey, Trying emotions: unpredictable justice in Faulkner's Smoke and Tomorrow, 46 The Mississippi Quarterly 447 (Summer 1993).
Judson Durward Watson III, "Hair", "Smoke", and the Development of the Faulknerian Lawyer Character, 43 Miss. Q. 349 (1990).
Dawn Trouard, Eula's Plot: An Irigararian Reading of Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy, 42 Miss. Q. 281 (1989).
Theodore Gibbs Albert, The Law V. Clarissa Harlowe; The Pastoral Argument of the Sound and the Fury; Melville's Savages (Dissertation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 1976).
Karen Ann Butery, From Conflict to Suicide: The Inner Turmoil of Quentin Compson, 49 American Journal of Psychoanalysis 211 (September 1989).
Masao Shimura, Faulkner, de Assis, Barth: Resemblances and Differences, in Faulkner Studies in Japan 76 (Kenzaburo Ohashi, Kiyoyuki Ono and Thomas L. McHaney eds. 1985).
Qui Phiet Tran, The Question of Suicide in The Sound and the Fury, 14 New Orleans Review 52 (Winter 1987).
John S. Williams, Ambivalence, Rivalry, and Loss: Bayard Sartoris and the Ghosts of the Past, 43 Arizona Quarterly 178 (Summer 1987).
Leo J. M. Manglaviti, Faulkner's That Evening Son and Mencken's `Best Editorial Judgment', 43 Am. Lit. 649 (1972).
Laurence Perrine, That Evening Sun: A Skein of Uncertainties, 22 Studies in Short Fiction 295 (1985).
E. W. Pitcher, Motive and Metaphor in Faulkner's 'That Evening Sun', 18 Studies in Short Fiction (Newberry SC) 131 (Spring 1981).
John N. Duvall, Silencing Women in `The Fire and the Hearth' and `Tomorrow', 16 College Literature 75 (1989).
Michael E. Lahey, Trying emotions: unpredictable justice in Faulkner's Smoke and Tomorrow, 46 The Mississippi Quarterly 447 (Summer 1993).
Leo J. M. Manglaviti, Faulkner's That Evening Son and Mencken's `Best Editorial Judgment', 43 Am. Lit. 649 (1972).
George Anderson, Toward a Reading of The Town as a Chronicle: Respectability and Race in Three Episodes, 43 Miss. Q. 377 (1990).
Susan Garland Mann, Seasonal Imagery and the Pattern of Revenge in The Unvanquished, 21 Notes on Mississippi Writers 41 (1989).
David Rogers, Shaking Hands: Gestures Toward Race in William Faulkner's The Unvanquished, 43 Miss. Q. 335 (1990).
Janet Carey Eldred, Faulkner's Still Life: Art and Abortion in The Wild Palms, 4 The Faulkner Journal (Akron, OH) 139 (Fall 1988/Spring 1989).
Mary E. Davis, The Town That Was an Open Wound, 23 Comp. Lit. Stud. 24 (Spring 1986).
John F. Desmond, Language, Suicide, and the Writer: Walker Percy's Advancement of William Faulkner, in Walker Percy: Novelist and Philosopher 131 (Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp eds. 1991).
1. This bibliography is part of a larger work on secondary sources in law and literature to be published by William S. Hein Co., Buffalo, NY.