Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Absalom, Absalom! : a guide through myriad-minded Faulkner / David Madden -- Biography of William Faulkner / Lorie Watkins Fulton -- The Paris review perspective / Nathaniel Rich for The Paris review -- From mapmaker to geographer : Faulkner's sense of space in Absalom, Absalom! / Nicole Moulinoux -- Cultural context : Absalom, Absalom! / Ted Atkinson -- Tragedy and the modern American novel : The great Gatsby, Absalom, Absalom!, and All the king's men / Randy Hendricks -- The critical reception of Absalom, Absalom! / Kevin Eyster -- Gates and doors and metaphors : materiality and (dis)embodied sexuality in Absalom, Absalom! / Aimee E. Berger -- Past as present : Absalom, Absalom! / Hyatt H. Waggoner -- Quentin! Listen! / David Madden -- Subverting history : women, narrative, and patriarchy in Absalom, Absalom! / Susan V. Donaldson -- Absalom, Absalom! : story-telling as a mode of transcendence / Richard Forrer -- Black feminism and the canon : Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Morrison's Beloved as gothic romances / Philip Goldstein -- "A shape to fill a lack" : Absalom, Absalom! and the pattern of history / Deborah Wilson -- Faulkner's prose style in Absalom, Absalom! / Robert H. Zoellner -- Rosa Coldfield as daughter : another of Faulkner's lost children / Linda Wagner-Martin -- War and memory : Quentin Compson's Civil War / Lewis P. Simpson -- The dead father in Faulkner / John T. Irwin -- Resources -- Chronology of William Faulkner's life -- Works by William Faulkner -- Bibliography.