Teaching Faulkner Newsletter
Continue to main contentBrief articles, notes, news items, queries and suggestions for teaching Faulkner's works at the high school and/or college level are collected through submissions and research for the newsletter.
To submit an article for consideration, please send an electronic copy of the manuscript (MS Word, any version) to the Center for Faulkner Studies at cfs@semo.edu.
Article Archives
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.Reconstructing After Deconstructing Faulkner: Two Retellings of the Sutpen Saga
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
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
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
Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Identity as Unity of Go Down, Moses
David Becker
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
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
Taylor Hagood, Florida Atlantic University
William A. Heyde III
Stephen Hahn, William Paterson University
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
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
Stephen Hahn, William Paterson College
Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska at Kearney
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
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
William Faulkner and Three Japanese Novelists: Affinities and Parallels by Noboru Yamashita
"Memory Believes Before Knowing Remembers": Teaching Faulkner and Memory Studies
Lisa Hinrichsen, University of Arkansas
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
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