Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: FAULKNER AND THE READER; Chapter One (you never smelled a frightened horse, did you?): The Sound and the Fury; Chapter Two To Look Upon Evil: The Conspiring Reader of Sanctuary; PART TWO: WRITERS IN YOKNAPATAWPHA; Chapter Three Doing Things Bigger Than He Was: John Sartoris; Chapter Four That Florid, Swaggering Gesture: Thomas Sutpen; Chapter Five Monuments and Footprints: The Mythology of Flem Snopes; PART THREE: READERS IN YOKNAPATAWPHA
Chapter Six Witnesses to the Extinction: Reading the Sartoris TextChapter Seven Perhaps (I Like to Think This): Reading Absalom, Absalom! and the Sutpen Text; Chapter Eight Interested Parties and Theorems to Prove: Snopeswatching; PART FOUR: CREATING YOKNAPATAWPHA; Chapter Nine But why? But why? : Ike McCaslin, and the Reading and Writing of Books in the Midst of Desolation; Chapter Ten Liable to Be Anything: Joe Christmas, Yoknapatawphan; Chapter Eleven Anyone Watching Us Can See: The Democracy of Perspective in As I Lay Dying; Chapter Twelve The Loom and the Rug: The Making of a World
