Introduction 1
PHILIP M．WEINSTEINPart Ⅰ．The Texts in the World 1
CONTENTSPreface 7
List of Contributors 11
Chronology of William Faulkner 's Life and Works 15
1 Faulkner and Modernism RICHARD C．MORELAND 17
Abbreviations for Texts Cited 20
2 Faulkner and Postmodernism PATRICK O′DONNELL 31
3 Faulkner and the Culture Industry JOHN MATTHEW S 51
4 Faulkner from a European Perspective ANDR？ BLEIKASTEN 75
5 Looking for a Master Plan：Faulkner,Paredes，and the Colonial and Postcolonial Subject RAM？N SA L D？VA R 96
Part Ⅱ．TheWorld in the Texts 96
6 Racial Awareness and Arrested Development：The Sound and the Fury and the Great Migration（1915-1928） CHERYL LESTER 123
7 Race in Ligh t in A ugust：Wordsymbols and Obverse Reflections JUDITH BRYANT WITTENBERG 146
8 Absalom，Absalom！：（Un）Making the Father CAROLYN PORTER 168
Conclusion：The Stakes of Reading Faulkner-Discerning Reading WARWICK WADLINGTON 197
Works Cited 221
Index 231