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by Philip Weinstein

Falkner, Fannie Forrest, 125–6

  Falkner, Lena, 126

  Falkner, J. W. T., 41–2, 47, 74, 76, 171–2, 188

  Falkner, (Uncle) John, 80, 189

  Falkner, Maud Butler, 37–44, 47, 59, 70, 79, 104, 106, 111–2, 128, 130, 172, 240n.2

  Falkner, Murry, 38–44, 76, 121–2, 171, 188, 241n.3

  Falkner, Dean, 7, 106–7, 111–2

  and flight, 106–7, 111–2

  Falkner, John (Johncy), 37, 44, 45, 92, 121, 157

  Falkner, Louise Hale (wife of Dean), 107, 111–2

  Falkner, Murry (Jack), 37, 44, 45, 46, 73, 129, 188

  Falkner, Dean (daughter of Dean and Louise), 229–30

  Falkners of Mississippi, The (Murry [Jack] Falkner), 37, 46, 73, 129

  Faulkner, Estelle Oldham Franklin, 6, 9, 15–19, 21, 29, 47, 66–8, 70, 73, 78–81, 83–7, 104–5, 112–3, 166, 170–1, 175–6, 179–83, 185, 189–90, 203, 209, 229–30, 217, 219, 240–1n.1–2, 242n.1

  divorce of (from Franklin), 6, 9, 15–7, 66, 81

  failed elopement of (with Faulkner), 15, 66–8, 70, 112

  marriage of (with Faulkner), 9, 17–9, 83–7, 170–1, 179–83, 203, 219, 229–30, 240–1nn.1–2, 241–2n.1

  Faulkner in the University, 11, 17, 22, 46, 94, 225

  Faulkner, William, and alcohol, 115, 168–79, 234

  “becoming” of, 1–5, 214–5

  See also time, unpreparedness

  childhood of, 36–48

  and Conference of Southern Writers (1931), 85–7

  early poetry of, 21–24, 77–8

  early prose of, 24–6

  and endurance, 235–6

  as experimental novelist, 48, 50–9, 64–5, 94–5, 99–103

  and flight, 6–7, 103–12

  and Greenfield Farm, 156–7

  and guilt, 111–2, 114

  “hemophilic” imagination of, 213–5

  and Hollywood, 8, 113, 179–90

  honeymoon of, 18–9

  and hospitalization, 174, 218

  and humor, 231–2

  and hunting, 11, 173–4

  later fiction of, 221–7

  and love affairs, 113–4, 179–85, 218–21

  and Meta Carpenter, 179–85

  and money, 109, 112–3, 156–8, 166

  and need of “sanctuary,” 169, 171–3, 210–5, 233–4

  and New Orleans, 24

  and Nobel Prize, 45, 134, 217, 231

  and photographs, 71–2, 181

  and the Post Office, 79–80

  and psychoanalysis, 218

  and race, 9, 114

  as ancestral inheritance, 123–7

  as articulated for Life Magazine, 117

  as civil rights turmoil, 115–9, 217

  as segregation, 120–4

  as stereotype, 128

  and refusal to judge, 213, 234

  and role-playing, 6, 15–6, 71–80

  and State Department, 131, 132, 170, 217

  and spelling of name, 73–6

  as traditionalist, 7, 83–4, 177–8

  and unpreparedness, 66–8, 111–2, 210–5

  See also unpreparedness

  and writing, 233–7

  and World War 1, 6, 15, 70–3, 134

  Faulkner-Cowley File, The (Cowley), 3–4, 44, 176, 227, 233

  Faulkner: A Biography (Blotner, 1 vol), 12–4, 37, 41, 60, 61, 67, 72, 74, 77–80, 86–7, 104–7, 111–3, 115, 119, 130–2, 157, 167, 169, 175, 183, 187–8, 216–7, 219, 225–6, 229–33

  Faulkner: A Biography (Blotner, 2 vols), 38, 68, 71, 120, 241n.5

  Faulkner: The House Divided (Sundquist), 245n.8

  Faulkner and Love (Sensibar), 240–1nn.1–3, 241–2n.1, 243n.2, 245n.8, 245n.4

  “Faulknerese,” 221–5

  Flags in the Dust, 9, 11, 18, 31–6, 42, 57, 73, 76, 81, 92, 111, 134, 193, 224

  See also Sartoris

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 126

  Franklin, Cornell, 6, 15, 16, 19, 66–8, 112

  Franklin, Malcolm, 15, 113, 229

  Franklin, Victoria, 15, 113, 229

  Freud, Sigmund, 218

  Glissant, Edouard, 235

  Godden, Richard, 245n.8

  Great Illusion, The (Asbury), 235n.2

  Green Bough, A, 22

  Green, Paul, 85, 86

  Griffith, D. W. (The Birth of a Nation), 46

  Go Down, Moses, 76, 114, 124, 127, 137, 155–66 172–3, 178, 185, 221, 225

  ancestral shadows in, 162–3

  deferred revelation in, 162

  and love, 162–5

  miscegenation in, 158–9, 161–2, 164–5

  racial representation of Lucas and Rider in, 159–61

  and Reconstruction, 163–4

  as “stories about niggers,” 158

  Go Down Moses: The Miscegenation of Time (Kinney), 244n.7

  Hale, Grace, 130, 243–4nn.4, 6

  Haas, Robert (Bob), 158, 169, 170, 178, 231, 245n.5

  The Hamlet, 9, 36, 107, 110, 178, 189, 198–210, 225, 231, 236

  financial transactions in, 198–9

  Mink’s ordeal in, 206–8

  Ratliff’s role in, 199–200

  “sanctuary” in, 208–10

  sexual madness in, 200–6, 208–9

  Snopesism in, 198–9

  Hawks, Howard, 179, 187

  Helen, 21

  Hemphill, Dave, 175

  Hernandez, Juano, 166–7

  Hemingway, Ernest, 14, 233

  Herndon, William, 232–3

  Hindman, Robert, 74

  Homemade World, A (Kenner), 245n.7

  Housman, A. E. (A Shropshire Lad), 22, 32

  Howe, Russell, 115

  Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of (Twain), 227

  Hughes, Richard, 14

  Huxley, Aldous, 30

  Idiot, The (Dostoevsky), 56

  If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild Palms), 9, 185, 190–8, 200, 203, 225

  and As I Lay Dying, 197

  bleeding in, 191–4

  love as suffering in, 195–7

  orgasm in, 192–4, 197–8

  Intruder in the Dust, 10, 166–7, 178, 221, 236

  Jackson, Robert, 130, 243–4nn.4, 6

  Jefferson, Thomas (“Declaration of Independence”), 117

  Jonsson, Else, 3, 132

  Joyce, James, 60, 224–5, 241n.5

  Keats, John (“Ode on a Grecian Urn”), 17, 18

  Kennedy, John, 232

  Kenner, Hugh, 245n.7

  Kierkegaard, Soren, 91, 101, 243n.8

  King, Martin Luther, 120, 127, 165

  Kinney, Arthur, 244n.7

  Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 180

  Lawrence, D. H., 180

  Light in August, 9, 23, 97–103, 107, 114, 124, 137–44 157, 165, 169, 192–3, 211, 225

  Calvinism in, 100–1

  cognition and recognition in, 101–3

  narrative experiment in, 99–103

  and “nigger,” 139–40

  racial identity as unknowable in, 137–44

  and racist culture, 141–4

  sequencing in, 98–100, 137

  threat of miscegenation in, 155–6

  unpreparedness in, 99–101

  Lincoln, Abraham (“Emancipation Proclamation”), 117

  Lion in the Garden, 17, 23, 52, 81, 115–7, 178, 239–40n.3, 242n.6

  Liveright, Horace (Boni & Liveright), 11–4, 17–18, 31–3, 42

  “Lost Generation, The,” 14

  Loving Gentleman, A (Wilde and Borsten), 171, 179–85

  Lucy, Autherine, 117, 118

  Macbeth (Shakespeare), 206

  Mallarmé, Stéphane, 77

  Mansion, The, 107, 178, 189, 201, 226–7, 232

  Marble Faun, The, 13, 22–3, 25, 60, 76, 89, 96, 230

  Marx, Sam, 113, 185–6

  Memphis, 120

  “Mississippi,” 133

  miscegenation, in Faulkner’s work, 8, 154–6, 244–5n.8

  in Faulkner’s family, 124–7<
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  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.

  William Faulkner: the artist as bohemian in Paris, 1925. William C. Odiorne. From the Brodsky Collection, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University.

  William Faulkner: notorious author (photo taken after publication of Sanctuary), 1931. Cofield Collection, Southern Media Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.

  Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s antebellum home, purchased in 1930. From the Brodsky Collection, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University.

 

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