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Includes bibliographical references and index
Where the comma goes: editing William Faulkner -- Children of the dark house -- Trying not to say: a primer on the language of The Sound and the Fury -- The artist as cuckold -- Ratliff's buggies -- Woman and the feminine in A Fable -- Man in the middle: Faulkner and the Southern White moderate -- Faulkner at midcentury
This book collects choice selections of his Faulkner criticism from the past fifteen years. Its publication and underscores the significance of Polk's indispensable work in Faulkner studies, both in criticism and in the editing of Faulkner's texts. In the title essay, his focus is mainly upon the context of Freudian themes, expressly in the works written between 1927 and 1932, the period in which Faulkner wrote and ultimately revised Sanctuary, a novel to which Polk has given concentrated study during his distinguished career. He has connected the literature with the life in a way not achieved in previous criticism. Although other critics, notably John T. Irwin and Andre Bleikasten, have explored Oedipal themes, neither perceived them operating so completely at the center of Faulkner's work as Polk does in this essay
