... aspirations animating William Faulkner's Depression-era achievement. In this case, the guiding claim is that his novelistic enterprise culminates in a reflexive analysis of the fantasy organizing his literary labors throughout the period. More precisely, “The Bear” in Go Down Moses reveals the extent to which...

...Nidesh Lawtoo Moses's critical shift from a formalist to a psychological rendering of modernism is predicated on an underlying theoretical move that sets out to decenter dominant accounts of subject formation. Thus, in chapter 1, “Personhood beyond Personality,” Moses sails past the Scylla...

...MARILYN MOBLEY MCKENZIE THADIOUS M. DAVIS, Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses (Durham: Duke UP, 2003), pp. 339, $79.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Strategies of Containment: Faulkner's Narratives of Race...

... produced by the ambiguities of the pyramidal structure from the perspective of Moses, Henry’s first slave, shortly after his purchase. “Sleeping in a cabin beside Henry in the first weeks after the sale, Moses had thought that it was already a strange world that made him a slave to a white man...

...). Foucault cites a rabbinic commentary that “explains how and why Moses was chosen by God to lead the flock of Israel. . . . It was because when Moses was a shepherd in Egypt he knew how to graze his sheep and knew, for example, that when he came to pasture he had to send the young- est sheep first...

... . Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria . New York: Touchstone, 1997 . Freud , Sigmund . The Interpretation of Dreams . Trans. James Strachey. New York: Avon, 1965 . Freud , Sigmund . “The Moses of Michelangelo.” Writings on Literature and Art . Trans. James Strachey. Stanford...

... .” Nostromo: Centennial Essays . Ed. Simmons Allan H. and Stape J. H. . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2004 . 14 – 30 . Moretti Franco . The Way of the World . 2nd ed. New York : Verso , 2000 . Moses Michael Valdez . The Novel and the Globalization of Culture . New York...

... of the Holocaust.” Journal of Genocide Research 6 . 3 ( 2004 ): 371 – 93 . Milosz Czeslaw . The Captive Mind . London : Vintage International , 1990 . Moses A. Dirk . “Hannah Arendt, Imperialisms, and the Holocaust.” German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany . Ed...

..., Moses . Novels 1942–1954 . New York : Library of America , 1994 . 1 – 282 . Faulkner William . Intruder in the Dust. Novels 1942–1954 . New York : Library of America , 1994 . 283 – 470 . Faulkner William . Sanctuary . New York : Vintage International , 1993...

... ofsolomon alongside Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. Here Duvall makes the point that although Morrison herself (sometimes) claims that "the most appropriate frame for assessing her literary work is an African-American folk and oral tradition" (76), it is also necessary to examine her novels' relationship...

... and apparent use or else very large—sometimes so large as to constitute everything, the enigma of the universe” (xi). “Ithaca” asks: “Where was Moses when the candle went out?” (U 17.2070), and Bloom, having “pondered” this “selfevident enigma . . . with desultory con- stancy during 30 years,” suddenly...

... narrators as Moses Roper and William Grimes. Despite this, Gardner's achievement is striking. Particularly significant are the less known eighteenth-century authors (of fiction and "science") Gardner focuses on throughout his project and his willingness to rend the protective veil cast over...

..., rather than attempting to reconcile Faulkner in his public dimension—­ urging a “go slow” policy for racial integration in the South—with the Faulkner of Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses, where the complexities of racial identity and black-white relations are consistently...

..., but he is also singled out for special trials. This is the condition of biblical man, the question which he constantly asks himself along with Moses, Job, Jonah, indeed all the heroes of the Bible, "Why am I singled out?" (29). Fisch maintains that Robinson Crusoe in particular, and the novel...

... and mistreated kids. More often than not, moreover, the detective spends most of his or her labors in the effort to rescue the weak and vulnerable from the hazards of a cruel world and return them to good homes. It is no surprise, then, as Cassuto points out, that Hoke Mosely, the hard-bitten detective...

..., 1953 . Lott , Eric . Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class . New York: Oxford UP, 1993 . Lowe , Lisa . Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics . Durham: Duke UP, 1996 . Moses , Wilson J. “Writing Freely? Frederick Douglass...

...: Duke UP, 2002 . Moses , Wilson J. “The Lost World of the Negro, 1895–1919: Black Literary and Intellectual Life before the ‘Renaissance.’” Black American Literature Forum 21 ( 1987 ): 61 –84. Napier , Winston . “Affirming Critical Conceptualism: Harlem Renaissance Aesthetics...

... and establish their own laws that transcend the interests of nations and subjects—we could easily read The Golden Bowl' s form as mirroring this impersonal drive for balance. And yet it is not quite right to say that James's texts are entirely impersonal or structural; as Omri Moses has recently argued...

... of the Somme . London: Phoenix Press, 2001 . Fleming , John G. An Introduction to the Law of Torts . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1967 . Freud , Sigmund . Moses and Monotheism . 1939. Trans. Katherine Jones. New York: Vintage Books, 1967 . Fussell , Paul . The Great War and Modern...

... reading of the importance of the nonhuman, and specifically, the stone and the dildo, see Rodness . 4 For a critique of Feinberg 's use of Indigenous cultures to support and center her own struggle, see Moses . Works Cited Attridge Derek . The Work of Literature . Oxford...