Title: Critical essays on William Faulkner : the Sutpen family /
Authors: Kinney, Arthur F., 1933-
Publisher: G.K. Hall ; Prentice Hall International,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Faulkner, William, Characters Sutpen family.; Sutpen family (Fictitious characters); Families in literature.; Families in literature.; Southern States In literature.
Abstract: Collection of reviews and critical essays on Faulkner's Sutpen family, who appear in his novel, "Absalom, Absalom!"
Contents: Evangeline ; Sutpen I / William Faulkner -- William Faulkner's Revolt in the earth / Bruce F. Kawin -- The myth of the cavalier / W.J. Cash -- Forms of plantation acculturation / Ulrich Bonnell Phillips -- Myth against history : the case of southern womanhood / Sarah N. Evans -- Southern women, southern households / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Miscegenation / Sidney Kaplan -- The war for states' rights / The Survivors' Association of Lamar Rifles -- Early understandings. Witchcraft in Mississippi / Bernard DeVoto -- Poe in Mississippi / Malcolm Cowley -- The itinerary of an ideological dream / Philip Rahv -- Mr. Faulkner adds a cubit / Paula Snelling -- Reviewing reviews / Saturday Review of Literature -- The Sutpen-Bon-Coldfield family. Sutpen and southern history / Melvin Backman -- Fathers and sons / John T. Irwin -- The Sutpens and the blacks / Thadious M. Davis -- Fathers and strangers : from patriarchy to counterfamily in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / Andrea Dimino -- Thomas Sutpen. The significance of Thomas Sutpen / Carolyn Porter -- Sutpen as patriarch / André Bleikasten -- A brief for Thomas Sutpen / Woodrow Stroble.