A Rose for Emily (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Allen, Dennis W. “Horror and Perverse Delight: Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’.” Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 30, No. 4, Winter 1984, pp. 685-96.

  A fine overview of the story, featuring an in-depth psychological analysis of the character of Emily.

• Blotner, Joseph. Faulkner: A Biography, New York: Random House, 1974.

  This exhaustive study written by one of Faulkner’s colleagues at the University of Virginia is considered by most critics to be the definitive Faulkner biography.

• Jacobs, John T. “Ironic Allusions in A Rose for Emily’.” Notes on Mississippi Writers, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1982, pp. 77-79.

  Jacobs provides a critical analysis of the role that the character of Homer Barron plays in the story.

• Wilson, G.R., Jr. “The Chronology of Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’ Again.” Notes on Mississippi Writers, Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall, 1972, pp. 43-62.

  Wilson devises a seemingly logical time-line for the story.

• Winchell, Mark Royden. “For All the Heart’s Endeavor: Romantic Pathology in Browning and Faulkner.” Notes on Mississippi Writers, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1983, pp. 57-63.

  Winchell compares “A Rose for Emily” with Robert Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover.”