William Faulkner
This Web page has information to help researchers find materials related to the American author William Faulkner, 1897-1962.
Books | Articles (includes tips for searching MLA online) | Journals| Web | Full Text Online
Books
Books are a key resource for literary research. Books by and about William Faulkner can be found in Morgan Library within call number PS 3511 .A86. They are located in the lower level (basement) of the building and number over nine shelves' worth.
Locate individual tales by doing a title search in SAGE, the library catalog (for works in anthologies or compilations from the past thirteen years and selected older titles):
Light in August
Note: this search also picks up materials about the novel, essay, or poem.
Reference book: William Faulkner A to Z. PS 3511 .A86 Z459 2002 Reference
Articles
For literature, and therefore William Faulkner, there are three indexes that provide the most sources for research on the author and his works. The indexes are MLA Bibliography, AcademicSearch Premier, and Humanities Index.
Search the MLA Bibliography for articles, book chapters, etc. After finding a citation, check SAGE to see if CSU owns the journal or book.
To find resources about Faulkner, search MLA for:
There are many entries on William Faulkner in MLA (as of April 2006 there are over 5400 entries).You can limit your search by publication type from the initial search screen. Get there by clicking on "Search Options" tab if you have already done a search. Publication types are: Book; Book Article; Book Collection; Dissertation Abstract; Journal Article. The left example below shows a search limited to journal articles. You can exclude dissertations from a general search (right example).
You can also limit your search by language of the article (type in the language--only one at time):
In this case, limiting "Faulkner, William" to journal articles in English retrieves over 2890 articles.
Because there are so many records, narrow your search by topic. For example:
narrows the number of items to 23 (April 2006).
The "Search History" tab lets you see your earlier searches. Click on the box in the "Add to Search" column to the left of the search you want to repeat or combine (with and, or, or not) and click on the "Add" button. You will then need to click the "search" button to do the search--or you can add additional terms in the same or other search boxes.
(April 14,2006)
Notice the "Limiters set" on the upper left of the image. This displays (and functions) for subsequent searches as long as new terms are typed into the search boxes. Clicking on a hyperlink term from within a record will not include previously set limits; in fact, if still wanted, they will need to be reselected on the "Search Options" page, and the hyperlinked term(s) repeated.
To eliminate the book reviews from your search, do a subject search for William Faulkner not books-reviews (DE Faulkner, William NOT SU books-reviews). Same software as MLA above. There are over 550 records on Fallkner in Academic Search Premier. Some of the records are for a more general audience than MLA, and may be very useful. You can also limit your results, under "search options," to scholarly articles (this option is not found in MLA--generally speaking, everything in MLA is scholarly).
Humanities Index (AI 3 .I495 Reference South 1974-98; online 1984- ). Online (different publisher, similar subject coverage): Humanties International Index Varies.
Over 1,000 articles about or mention William Faulkner and his works/influence in the online database; in over 500 he is mentioned as a subject.
Subject Terms: FAULKNER, William, 1897-1962
1350 articles about Faulkner (over 4100, including reviews; limit to articles to identify articles only). All full text.
Over 65 records with William Faulkner as a LC Subject. All articles are full text and may be viewed in HTML or PDF. Do a LC Subject search or "All Fields Except Text" because the "all fields w/text" brings up hundreds of irrelevant articles.
Essay & General Literature Index.
Citations to book chapters. Over 55 records.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science).
Over 170 citations.
Electronic Collections Online.(ECO.)
Over 80 citations.
Journals
The Faulkner Journal. Web site.
CSU owns in print 1985-2000. PS 3511 .A86Z4584 Moveable Shelves. 2000- available online via Academic Search Premier. Web site has table of contents for current and past issues (Volume 11 on Fall 1995/Spring 1996).
The Faulkner Newsletter & Yoknapatawpha Review. Ceased publication in 2001.
CSU owns 1992-2001 of this newsletter. PS 3511 .A86 Z7832126 Oversz (near Reference South).
Web
It looks as if Faulkner is well represented on the Web and key places are linked to by others, so this list is brief. Use these pagees as starting points (and visiting points--plenty of material on most of these sites!) for locating materials about the author.
In all cases, be sure to evaluate what you find, no matter the source: book, article, Web page.
William Faulkner: American Writer 1897-1962. John B. Padgett. English Department at The University of Mississippi.
Numerous links about Faulkner's work (novels, short stories, essays & speeches, letters) screenplays, life, Yoknapatawpha County, etc. Has links to other Web sites with information about Faulker.
William Faulkner--Biography. Nobel Prize.org.
Brief biography. Links to video documentary, banquet speech (available in audio), and other resources.
Has links to related sites.
William Faulkner Foundation. Le Ny Pierre-André. University of Rennes 2, (Rennes, France).
Selected Resources on William Faulkner . Jim Alderman. Thomas G. Carpender Library. University of North Florida."[H]ouses the Faulkner manuscripts and offers various services such as his bibliography, books, his chronology, scholarly articles, his filmography for scholars and students of Southern literature." Articles (and the site) are in English, but authors appear to be French which gives a European perspective.
Library subject guide. CSU does not own two of the referred to databases, but the others we do own and are listed above (plus we have others useful ones not listed: JSTOR and Electronic Collections Online). Check SAGE to see if we own the books (we own a number of them) and use the Citation Linker to find out if CSU owns electronic versions of the articles on the selective bibliography (items post 2000)--do not forget to check SAGE for journal holdings if there is no electronic version! The page has annotated links to other Web sources.
Faulkner Journal of Japan (in English). William Faulkner Society of Japan.
May 1999 to the present, full text online.
Center for Faulkner Studies. Southeast Missouri State University.
The Center, The Brodsky Collection, Teaching Faulkner, Faulkneria, Biokyowa Scholar, Announcements, Related Links. Quite a bit of one-place only resources here.
Full Text Online
The Sound and the Fury (hypertext). " This hypertext is best viewed in browsers that support frames and cascading style sheets. There is no non-frame version."
"This electronic edition also contains examples of intertexts that influence the novel, as well as critical commentaries on those influences." List of criticism: General / Works Cited, Textual, Intertextual, Psychological / Medical, Religious / Spiritual, Semantic / Linguistic, Aesthetic, Symbolic, and Historical / Temporal.
See also Milton, Chaucer, Poe, O'Connor, William Carlos Williams & Wallace Stevens, Dickinson & Wright, and Shakespeare.