teaching faulkner

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 topics, such as perspectives on teaching Faulkner in the context of Civil War history or using Faulkner to teach medical students, are listed under Faulkner in the Classroom. Additional essays, such as Joseph Blotner's recollections of writing Faulkner's biography, are included under Faulkner Miscellany.

The Teaching Faulkner newsletter is published annually by the Center for Faulkner Studies. Brief articles, notes, news items, queries and suggestions for teaching Faulkner's works at the high school and/or college level are welcomed. As of 2016 the Teaching Faulkner newsletter will be produced and distributed electronically only. No more print issues will be produced. You can add your name to our email subscriber list below, and past issues will be available here.

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Past Issues

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Absalom, Absalom!

• Reconstructing After Deconstructing Faulkner: Two Re-Tellings of the Sutpen Saga

  Terrell Tebbetts, Lyon College

  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

• James Franco's As I Lay Dying: A Scholarly Review

  Drs. Christopher Rieger and Ted Atkinson

• Treasure in the Ground: Getting Mother's Body's Dialogue with As I Lay Dying

• Anse's Handle--The Importance of a Name

• As I Lay Dying: The Oprah Book Club Lectures

  Robert W. Hamblin

• 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"

A Hypertext Version of Faulkner's “Barn Burning”

• The Flight of the Unholy Family in Faulkner's "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

• Identity as Unity of Go Down, Moses by David Becker

• Imagining Difference: Altering Reality through the Wilderness in Faulkner's "The Bear" and the Clearing in Morrison's Beloved

• 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

• Wayward Girls: Teaching William Faulkner's Sanctuary and Larry Brown's Fay from a Feminist Perspective

  Dr. Caroline Miles, University of Texas-Pan American

• 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, University of Nebraska at Kearney

The Sound and the Fury

• The Necessity of Benjy as an Opening Narrator in The Sound and the Fury by Alana Rome

• 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

• Putting Together the Faulkner Puzzle in The Sound and the Fury

Faulkner in the Classroom

• A Class Divided

  Ted Atkinson, Mississippi State University

• Tommy's Toes: Faulkner's Wordwork and the Student Reader by Armando Jose Prats

• Joe Christmas Meets Victor Frankenstein in the Classroom

  Christopher Rieger, Southeast Missouri State University

• 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

• 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

Faulkner Miscellany

• William Faulkner and Three Japanese Novelists: Affinities and Parallels by Noboru Yamashita

• Why Faulkner, Still?

• "Memory Believes Before Knowing Remembers": Teaching Faulkner and Memory Studies

  Lisa Hinrichsen, University of Arkansas

• On Faulkner and Me

• 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

• "A Casebook on Mankind": Faulkner's Use of Shakespeare

  Robert W. Hamblin, Southeast Missouri State University