Authors: Philip Weinstein
“Mississippi,” 133
miscegenation, in Faulkner’s work, 8, 154–6, 244–5n.8
in Faulkner’s family, 124–7
Moby Dick
(Melville), 178
Moreland, Richard C., 243n.4
Mosquitoes
, 12, 14, 21–2,
28–31
, 32, 34–6, 48, 57–8, 81, 116, 124, 134
“must matter,” 228–37
My Brother Bill
(John [Johncy] Falkner), 37, 46, 92, 121
New Orleans Sketches
, 24–5, 134
Ober, Harold, 218, 230, 232–3
Oldham, Lemuel, 79
Omlie, Vernon, 105–7
One Matchless Time
(Parini), 4, 236, 242n.6
Origins of Faulkner’s Art, The
(Sensibar), 21, 43, 241n.4
Parini, Jay, 4, 236, 242n.6
Parker, Dorothy, 20–1
Patton, Nelse, 123
Phil Stone of Oxford
(Snell), 242nn.2–3
Plessy v. Ferguson
, 121 Pound, Ezra
(Cantos)
, 145
Prall, Elizabeth, 69, 79
Pylon
, 104,
107–11
, 193, 225
as anti-capitalist, 108–10
as extravagance, 107–8
flight and death in, 109–11
race, as civil rights turmoil, 115–9
as dark twinship, 115–7, 165–6
as segregation and violence, 120–3
as stereotype, 128, 158
Rebner, Wolfgang, 170–1, 182–5
Reivers, The
, 10, 45, 227
retrospection, 2–3
Requiem for a Nun
, 3, 107, 178, 196, 216, 219, 222, 236
Sanctuary
, 9, 18, 20, 31, 36, 61, 78–9, 82–3, 87–8,
91–7
, 178, 192–3, 211, 241n.2
distress in, 92–4
rape in, 91–7
transmogrification in, 92–4
Sartoris
, 18
See also Flags in the Dust
Scott, Evelyn, 81, 236
Selected Letters of William Faulkner
, 3, 43, 76, 81, 85, 87, 115, 118, 122, 132, 158, 170, 177, 218, 229–32, 245n.6
Sensibar, Judith, 21, 43, 240–1nn.1–4, 241–2n.1, 243n.2, 245n.4
Pygmalion
(Shaw), 219
Smith, Harrison (Hal), 61, 86, 92, 169–70, 186, 225
Snell, Susan, 242nn.2–3
Soldiers’ Pay
, 12, 14,
26–8
, 31, 32, 35, 36, 81, 134
The Sound and the Fury
, 9, 12, 18, 20–1, 23, 31, 33, 36, 42–5,
48–61
64–5, 81–2, 85, 87,
88–91
, 94–5, 110,
134–7
, 192–4, 211, 224, 236, 240n.2
biographical echoes in, 59–60
childhood in, 51, 53–6, 60–1
diagnosis of the South in, 55–6
interior monologue in, 56–9
Norton Critical edition of, 49, 55, 61, 83
racial nostalgia in, 134–7
temporal dislocation in, 49–56, 60–1
untimeliness in, 88–91
virginity in, 88, 212
Stein, Jean, 23, 52, 170, 220–1
Stone, Phil, 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 34, 68–70, 79, 173, 230–1
“Stranger in the Village” (Baldwin), 138
Stumbling.
See
unpreparedness
Summers, Jill Faulkner, 21, 105, 112–3, 128, 170–1, 175–6, 180–1, 190, 196, 217, 220, 226, 228–9, 240–1n.2
Sun Also Rises, The
(Hemingway), 14
Sundquist, Eric, 245n.8
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 21
Tate, Allen, 84, 86
Tempest, The
(Shakespeare), 227
Thinking of Home
(Watson), 71–3, 78, 83, 122
Thirsty Muse, The
(Dardis), 244nn.1–3
Till, Emmett, 132
Time, as assault, 6–7, 17–18, 85–8, 91–7
in biographies, 3–4, 8–9
as failed “becoming,” 1–5
as micro-time and macro-time, 6–7
as progress, 7–8
as retrospection
(“was”)
, 2–3, 11, 17, 20–1
as tension between
“was”
and
“is,”
11, 17–8, 23–4, 36, 52, 60–1, 73, 91
as unpreparedness (“is”), 2–4, 7–8, 11, 17, 20–1, 88, 91–7
See also
unpreparedness
Today We Live
(Hawks), 187
Tolstoy, Leo, 178, 245n.5
Town, The
, 66, 107, 178, 189, 201, 226
Twain, Mark, 45, 227
Ulysses
(Joyce), 60, 224–5, 241n.5
“unclotting.”
See
unpreparedness
unpreparedness, 1–3, 5–10, 73, 80–8, 101–3, 111–2, 176–7, 210–6, 235–7
See also
time
untimeliness.
See
unpreparedness
Unvanquished, The
, 114, 156, 158, 168, 225
Vardaman, James, 12
Verlaine, Paul (“Fantoches”), 78
Vision in Spring
, 22
War and Peace
(Tolstoy), 178, 245n.5
Warner, Jack, 217
Wasson, Ben, 18, 19, 34, 42, 48–9, 86, 87, 182
Watson, James G., 71–3, 78, 242n.4
Weinstein, Philip, 129–30, 244n.5
What Else But Love?
(Weinstein), 129, 244n.5
White Rose of Memphis, The
(W. C. Falkner), 75
Wilde, Meta Carpenter Rebner, 113, 168, 170–1, 179–85, 187–90, 196, 198, 202, 204, 217–9
Wilson, James, 85, 86
William Faulkner: Self-presentation and Performance
(Watson), 242n.4
William Faulkner and Southern History
(Williamson), 72, 86, 122–7, 175, 184, 243n.3
William Faulkner: une vie en romans
(Bleikasten), 4, 73, 239n.2, 242n.5, 243n.9
Williams, Joan, 170, 218–20
Williamson, Joel, 72, 86, 122–7
Wolfe, Thomas, 84, 225
Woodward, C. Vann
(The Burden of Southern History)
, 121, 243n.1
Yardley, Jonathan, 5
Yeats, W. B., 217
Young, Stark, 69, 79
Monument of the “Old Colonel” (William C. Falkner), cemetery in Ripley, Mississippi.
From the Jane Isbell Hanes Collection, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University.
Maud Butler Falkner and her infant son William, c. 1900.
Cofield Collection, Southern Media Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.
The Falkner boys: Murry, William, John, and Dean, Oxford, Mississippi, c. 1910.
Cofield Collection, Southern Media Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.
Jaunty William Faulkner in flying officer’s uniform, December 1918.
Cofield Collection, Southern Media Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.
Estelle Oldham Franklin and her daughter Victoria, Shanghai, c. 1924.
From the Brodsky Collection, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University.