Light in August (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Martin, Timothy P., "The Art and Rhetoric of Chronology in Faulkner's Light in August," in College Literature, Vol. 7, No. 2, Spring 1980, pp. 125-35.

  Martin analyzes Faulkner's use of time in the novel and compares it to other modernist works.

• McMillen, Neil R., Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow, University of Illinois Press, 1990.

  McMillen studies the treatment of blacks in Mississippi between 1890 and 1940 and chronicles their response to the segregation and racism they experienced during this period.

• Toomey, David M., "The Human Heart in Conflict: Light in August's Schizophrenic Narrator," in Studies in the Novel, Vol. 23, No. 4, Winter 1991, pp. 452-69.

  In this study, Toomey argues that the narrative could be read as Hightower's interior thoughts.

• Volpe, Edmond L., A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1964.

  Volpe divides his study of Faulkner's major works and style into three sections. The first traces thematic and stylistic patterns, the second contains close readings of Faulkner's nineteen novels, and the third traces the actual chronology of events within some of the more difficult works.

• Williamson, Joel, William Faulkner and Southern History, Oxford University Press, 1993.

  Williamson places Faulkner's texts along with Yoknapatawpha County in a cultural and historical context, focusing on the presentation of race, class, sex, and violence in the works. Williamson also includes biographical details that reveal Faulkner's own philosophy and experience with these subjects