Reading Faulkner: The unvanquished : glossary and commentary

474 Pages·1995·0.99 MB·English

by  James Hinkle

Reading Faulkner. The Unvanquished :
title: Glossary and Commentary Reading
Faulkner Series
author: Hinkle, James.; McCoy, Robert.
publisher: University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin: 0878057854
print isbn13: 9780878057856
ebook isbn13: 9780585217253
language: English
Faulkner, William,--1897-1962.--
Unvanquished , Faulkner, William,--1897-
subject
1962--Language--Glossaries, vocabularies,
etc.
publication date: 1995
lcc: PS3511.A86U537 1995eb
ddc: 813/.52
Faulkner, William,--1897-1962.--
Unvanquished , Faulkner, William,--1897-
subject:
1962--Language--Glossaries, vocabularies,
etc.
Page i
Reading Faulkner
The Unvanquished
Page ii
Reading Faulkner Series
Noel Polk, Series Editor
Page iii
Reading Faulkner
The Unvanquished
Glossary and Commentary by
James C. Hinkle
and
Robert McCoy
University Press of Mississippi Jackson
Page iv
Copyright © 1995 by the University Press of Mississippi
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hinkle, James.
Reading Faulkner. The unvanquished: glossary and commentary /
by James C. Hinkle and Robert McCoy.
p. cm.(Reading Faulkner series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87805-784-6 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-87805-785-4 (pbk.:
alk. paper)
1. Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Unvanquished. 2. Faulkner,
William, 1897-1962LanguageGlossaries, etc. I. McCoy, Robert.
II. Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Unvanquished. III. Title.
IV. Series.
PS3511 .A86U537 1995
813'.52dc20 94-43863
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Page v
Contents
Series Preface vii
Preface To The Unvanquished xi
How To Use This Book xiii
Chapter I 3
Ambuscade
Chapter II 66
Retreat
Chapter III 88
Raid
Chapter IV 119
Riposte In Tertio
Page vi
Chapter V 134
Vendée
Chapter VI 149
Skirmish at Sartoris
Chapter VII 168
An Odor of Verbena
Chronology 211
Bibliography 215
Index 225
Page vii
Series Preface
This volume is one of a series of glossaries of Faulkner's novels which
is the brainchild of the late James Hinkle, who established its
principles, selected the authors, worked long hours with each of us in
various stages of planning and preparation, and then died before
seeing any of the volumes in print. The series derives from Jim's
hardcore commitment to the principle that readers must understand
each word in Faulkner's difficult novels at its most basic, literal, level
before hoping to understand the works' "larger" issues. In pursuit of
this principle, Jim, a non-Southerner, spent years of his scholarly life
reading about the South and things Southern, in order to learn all he
could about sharecropping, about hame strings, about mule fact and
lore, about the Civil War, about blockade running, duelling, slavery
and Reconstruction, Indian culture and history. When he had learned
all he could from published sources, he betook himself to county and
city archives to find what he could there. He was intrigued by
Faulkner's names, for example, and over the years compiled a
fascinating and invaluable commentary on their etymologies, their
cultural and historical backgrounds, and, not least, their
pronunciations: Jim is the only person I know of who listened to all of
the tapes of Faulkner's readings and interviews at the University of
Virginia, in order to hear how Faulkner himself pronounced the names
and words he wrote. In short, for Jim, there was no detail too fine, no
fact or supposition too arcane to be of interest or potential significance
for readers of Faulkner: he took great pleasure in opening up the
atoms of Faulkner's world, and in exploring the cosmos he found
there.