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This Web archive includes articles that have appeared in past issues of the Teaching Faulkner newsletter, as well as invited essays by noted Faulkner scholars. The entries are arranged alphabetically by the title of the primary text discussed in the article. Other essays, such as Joseph Blotner's recollections of writing Faulkner's biography, and perspectives on teaching Faulkner in the context of Civil War history, or using Faulkner to teach medical students, are listed under Faulkner Miscellany.

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Absalom, Absalom!

Reconstructing After Deconstructing Faulkner: Two Re-Tellings of the Sutpen Saga
Terrell Tebbetts, Lyon College

Faulkner's Map of Yoknapatawpha: The End of Absalom, Absalom!
Robert Hamblin

The Decomposing Archetypes of Thomas Sutpen and Mr. Kurtz in the Motley Flag of Modernism
Amy E. C. Linnemann, Southeast Missouri State University

As I Lay Dying

A Discourse Analysis of Darl's Descent into Madness in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
Shannon Terry Wiley, The John Cooper School, The Woodlands, Texas

Elucidating Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying
Morna Flaum, Highland Mills, New York

Fifteen Ways of Looking at the Bundrens
Cheryl Lester, University of Kansas

The Right Tools for the Job: Cash Bundren’s Tool Box in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying
Barbara Ann Cass, University of Illinois at Springfield

What's in a Name? Etymology and As I Lay Dying
Faye Friesen and Charles Peek

"Because if there is a God What the Hell is He for?": Frenchman's Bend and Its Piety in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska at Kearney

The Four Women of the Apocalypse: Addie and Cora, Sula and Nel and the Collapse of the Mythic Female
K. Ruth Seaber, Southeast Missouri State University

Viewing Addie Bundren Through a Feminist Lens
Annette Wannamaker, Bowling Green State University

"Barn Burning"

Misplacing "Barn Burning," a Story of the '90s
Hugh Short, Iona College

"Barn Burning": A Story from the '30s
Mary Ellen Byrne, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ

Property, wealth, and the "American Dream" in "Barn Burning"
Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University

"The Fire and the Hearth"

"The Fire and the Hearth"
Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Go Down, Moses

Black vs. White and New vs. Old in Go Down, Moses
Supurna Banerjee

Teaching Faulkner's Go Down Moses
Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska at Kearney

Light in August

A Turn on Social Surveillance: Faulkner's Use of Thresholds in Light in August
W. Jason Miller, North Carolina State University

Faulkner’s Underworld Communities in Light in August and Sanctuary
David Vanderwerken, Texas Christian University

A Certain Slant of Light: Teaching Light in August Through Hightower’s Epiphany
Charles R. Baker

Faulkner's Distorted Crucifix: Wood Imagery in Light in August
Allen Frye, College of Charleston

Lucas Beauchamp, Joe Christmas, and the Color of Humanity
Laurel Longe, Wayne State College, Nebraska

"The Old People"

The Old People
Taylor Hagood, Florida Atlantic University

"Pantaloon in Black"

Tragi-Comedy and Comi-Tragedy in "Pantaloon in Black"
William A. Heyde III

"Raid"

Reading Faulkner’s “Raid”
Stephen Hahn, William Paterson University

"A Rose for Emily"

A Rose for Homer? The Limitations of a Reader-Response Approach to Faulkner’s "A Rose for Emily"
Jim Barloon, University of St. Thomas

Town and Time: Teaching Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
Mary Ellen Byrne, Ocean County College, New Jersey

Changing Portraits in "A Rose for Emily"
Janice A. Powell, Middle Park High School, Granby, Colorado

Sanctuary

Faulkner’s Underworld Communities in Light in August and Sanctuary
David Vanderwerken, Texas Christian University

"Shingles for the Lord"

Comedy and Social Construction: Teaching Faulkner’s "Shingles for the Lord"
Stephen Hahn, William Paterson College

"Skirmish at Sartoris"

“You needn’t bother to count them”: Faulkner’s Skirmishes at Sartoris
Charles A. Peek

The Sound and the Fury

A Jungian Analysis of The Sound and the Fury: Faulkner and the Four Functions
Edna Brown, St. Louis, Missouri

Calvinistic Visions of Time and Humanity in The Sound and the Fury
Helen R. Atsma, Willamette University

Teaching One Hundred Years of Solitude with the Sound and the Fury
Mark Frisch, Duquesne University

Did you ever have a sister?": Salinger's Holden Caulfield and Faulkner's Quentin Compson
Robert W. Hamblin, Southeast Missouri State University

A Review of MLA Volume on The Sound and the Fury
Veronica Makowsky, University of Connecticut

Untimely Loss: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Anna J. Street

Dilsey, Shegog's Sermon, and the Meaning of Time
John Williams

Faulkner Miscellany

Postmodernist Views of Two Japanese Writers on Faulkner: Haruki Murakami and Kenji Nakagami
Takako Tanaka, Nagoya City University, Japan

Writing William Faulkner's Biography
Joseph Blotner

Narrative Complexity, Voice, and Paper Assignments
Caroline Carvill, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Faulkner as a Framework for Studying the Civil War
Dan Holtz

"Life Is Motion": Keats and Faulkner in the Classroom
Stephen Hahn, William Paterson College

"A Casebook on Mankind": Faulkner’s Use of Shakespeare
Robert W. Hamblin, Southeast Missouri State University

Teaching Faulkner: Meaning through Metaphor
Pamela Hindman Hearn, Southeast Missouri State Universtiy

"He Could Do So Much for Me if He Just Would": Teaching Faulkner to Medical Students
Karl Kirkland, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Teaching Faulkner and the Spanish American Novel
Deborah Cohn, Indiana University

Keeping Faulkner in the Classroom
Lisa C. Hickman, Rhodes College

Telling Stories, Teaching Narrative: A Progressive Writing Assignment
Barbara C. Ewell

Teaching William Faulkner in High School Advanced Placement Classrooms
Richard S. Turner, Hamilton, Ohio

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