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Introduction: fictions of history - an approach to Faulkner. Part 1 Onprivacy: Faulkner and the human subject; history as autobiography - theworld of Faulkner; autobiography as history - the life of Faulkner.Part 2 Faulkner the apprentice: trying out different voices - the earlyprose and poetry; of loss and longing - soldier's pay and mosquitoes.Part 3 Rewriting the homeplace: ancestor worship, patricide and theepic past - flags in the dust and sartoris; voices, absence andcultural autobiography - "The Sound of the Fury"; a Southern carnival -"As I Lay Dying"; and woman was invented - "Sanctuary". Part 4 Of pastand present conflicts: language, power and the verbal community -"Light in August"; the virile pilot and the seductions of the aitr -"Pylon"; history is what hurts - "Absalom, Absalom!"; the plantationromance and the madwoman in the attic - "The Unvanquished". Part 5Public faces and private places: now about these women - "The WildPalms"; let's make a deal - "The Hamlet"; things fall apart - "Go Down,Moses"; watching the detectives - "Intruder in the Dust". Part 6 Theway home: finished and unfinished business - "Knight's Gambit" and"Requiem For A Nun"; of crowds, control and courage - "A Fable";distant voice, desperate lives - "The Towns"; then the letting go -"The Mansion". Postscript - back to Earth: the romance of the family-"The Reivers"; "I was Here" - Faulkner family tree.