William Faulkner's As I lay dying : a critical casebook /

Table of Contents: “…Pauline Degenfelder -- Pride and nakedness: As I lay dying / Calvin Bedient -- Darl Bundren's "cubistic" vision / Watson Branch -- Fate and madness: the determinist vision of Darl Bundren / Charles Palliser -- Vardaman's journey in As I lay dying / George Rooks -- The house that Tull built / Gail Moore Morrison -- As I lay dying: the insane world / William Rossky -- As I lay dying and The waste land: some relationships / Mary Jane Dickerson.…”

The flesh and the word; Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner by Watkins, Floyd C.

Table of Contents: “…Eliot: Eliot and the objective -- The early Eliot: poetry without a poet -- The Waste Land-Enjoyment of the poetry -- Eliot's substitute for sense -- The Word without Flesh in the Four Quartets -- Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises and the failure of language -- World pessimism and personal cheeriness in A Farwell to Arms -- Hemingway's first "big writing" -- Garrulous patriot -- The iceberg and the cardboard box -- William Faulkner: The unbearable and unknowable truth in Faulkner's first three novels -- The word and the deed in Faulkner's first great novels --Language of irony: Quiet words and violent acts in Light in August -- Thirteen ways of talking about a blackbird -- Faulkner's inexhaustible voice -- The truth shall make you fail -- The summing up.…”