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title	:	The Fragile Thread : The Meaning of Form in Faulkner's Novels
author	:	Kartiganer, Donald M.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870232681
print isbn13	:	9780870232688
ebook isbn13	:	9780585083797
language	:	English
subject	Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Technique, Fiction--Technique, Literary form.
publication date	:	1979
lcc	:	PS3511.A86Z85895 1979eb
ddc	:	813/.5
subject	:	Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Technique, Fiction--Technique, Literary form.

Page iii The Fragile Thread The Meaning of form in Faulkner's Novels Donald M. Kartiganer The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst, 1979

Page iv Copyright 1979 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 78-19693 ISBN 0-87023-268-1 Printed in the United States of America Designed by Mary Mendell Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Kartiganer, Donald M., 1937 The fragile thread. Includes index. 1. Faulkner, William, 18971962Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PS3511.A86Z85895813' .5'278-19693 ISBN 0-87023-268-1

Page v Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint copyrighted material: Random House, Inc. and Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for permission to qoute from the copyrighted works of William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Hamlet, Go Down, Moses, Intruder in the Dust, A Fable, and Requiem for a Nun; Thomas Mann: Essays, and Joseph and His Brothers; and Wallace Stevens: "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," "Chocorua To Its Neighbor," "Domination of Black," "Esthetique du Mal,'' "The Poems of Our Climate,'' and "The Motive for Metaphor," all from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. Doubleday & Company, Inc., for material from The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzche. Copyright 1956 by Doubleday & Company, Inc. Used by permission of the publisher. Johns Hopkins University Press for material from Donald Kartiganer, "The Sound and the Fury and Faulkner's Quest for Form," ELH 37 (1970): 61339. The Massachuetts Review, for material from Donald Kartiganer, "Process and Product: A Study of Modern Literary Form," The Massachusetts Review 12 (1971): 297328, 789816.

Page vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am indebted to Hyatt H. Waggoner, of Brown University, who taught me, above all else, that literature matters, that it has something important to tell us; and that if criticism is to be more than mere exercise or display, it must discuss literature seriously and with commitment. I wish to thank Martha Banta, Elizabeth Dipple, Donna Gerstenberger, Gerald Graff, and Malcolm Griffith, who read all or part of the manuscript and were generous with suggestions and encouragement. I also wish to thank Betty Feetham, Sherry Laing, Anne White, and Shirley Hanson who typed the manuscript (more than once). The Graduate School of the University of Washington provided a summer grant that allowed me to begin work on the project and an additional grant to pay for the typing. Finally I am indebted to my wife Lyn, who listened to and discussed with me most of the ideas in this book, and to my daughters Lisa, Mia, and Elizabethfor waiting patiently (still) for me to write something they can read.

Page ix CONTENTS Preface xiii Part One: The Dislocation of Form 1. The Sound and the Fury 3 2. As I Lay Dying 23 Part Two: Toward a Supreme Fiction 3. Light in August 37 4. Absalom, Absalom! 69 Part Three: Mythos 5. The Hamlet 109 6. The Last Novels 130 Part Four: Faulkner and Modernism 159 Notes 187 Index 203

Page x For my mother and father

Page xi language ... that meager and fragile thread ... by which the little surface corners and edges of men's secret and solitary lives may be joined for an instant now and then before sinking back into the darkness where the spirit cried for the first time and was not heard and will cry for the last time and will not be heard then either WILLIAM FAULKNER

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