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...Elmo Howell The Snopes Dilemma: Faulkner’s Trilogy . By Watson James Gray . Coral Gables : University of Miami Press , 1968 . Pp. 242 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 430 The South Atlantic Quarterly an interplay of continuity and change in Northern...

...Elmo Howell Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Mink Snopes and Faulkner s Moral Conclusions Elmo Howell Readers of William Faulkner s three Snopes novels have expressed a general dissatisfaction with the last two, which were written more than thirty years after the idea...

... in the years since those which Whitaker s research covers. The research student will find a useful and full bibliography and biographical notes on the parliamentarians who hailed from the emirates. THE SECRETARIAT BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS JOHN SMITH The Snopes Dilemma: Faulkner s Trilogy. By James Gray Watson...

..., and the McCaslins; young Temple Drake sowing her wild oats (if such a metaphor can be disengaged from the male sex) in a house of prostitution; Lena Grove serenely licking sardine oil from her fingers; Ike Snopes ambling after his beloved cow through the long, golden afternoon; Dilsey, Nancy Mannigoe, Ringo, T. P...

...) in a house of prostitution; Lena Grove serenely licking sardine oil from her fingers; Ike Snopes ambling after his beloved cow through the long, golden afternoon; Dilsey, Nancy Mannigoe, Ringo, T. P. the list seems endless at least partly because even minor characters, merely rounding out a scene or two...

... it larger than life. The most extravagant case of this stylistic sanctification, in The Faulkner s Democratic Rhetoric 533 Hamlet or probably anywhere else, is of course the famous love affair between the idiot Ike Snopes and Houston s cow. Then he would hear her, coming down the creekside in the mist...

... Beck. Madison: Uni­ versity of Wisconsin Press, 1961. Pp. 203. $6.00, cloth; $1.75, paper. Warren Beck, himself a writer of good fiction and a shrewd com­ mentator on narrative technique, has produced here a thorough and rewarding study of Faulkner s Snopes trilogy. Mr. Beck undertakes to prove...

..., cloth; $1.75, paper. Warren Beck, himself a writer of good fiction and a shrewd com­ mentator on narrative technique, has produced here a thorough and rewarding study of Faulkner s Snopes trilogy. Mr. Beck undertakes to prove that the trilogy is a work of genius; that the characters therein are among...

... not of their con­ scious but of their unconscious minds. Yet one writer favors the clean-cut, sparse, objective expression; the other explores many avenues between concept and vehicle and glories in the abstract word. In the Sartoris-Compson-Snopes myth appear repeatedly such words as honor, pride, courage, vanity...

... the same qualities to his tall men. They are not men with a private dream or design like Sutpen, Carothers McCaslin, or Flem Snopes. On the other hand they are not utterly passive, shiftless, or fatalistic like Wash Jones in Absa­ lom, Absalom! or Quentin s father, Jason Compson III, in The Sound...

... told me years ago he thought that Wolfe was awful. Couldn t read him. Well, he couldn t put himself first, and he had to get some sort of gimmick by which he could put Hemingway after himself. Wolfe, Faulkner, and Heming­ way. That was Snopes cunning. It s like old Lem Snopes. When reminded that what...

... troversial ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and his discussions of the confidence man in Faulkner s Snopes trilogy and Ralph Ellison s Invisible Man. Perhaps he is least persuasive in his considerations of the hero of Arthur Mervyn and of Holgrave in The House of the Seven Gables. For its intellec­...

... by the books (one of Flem Snopes s long-term motivations was the shooting of his father, Ab, by Colonel Sartoris), uses infelicitous phraseology (young Bayard attempts to relieve himself in his new car calls Popeye s corncob a stick, describes The Sound and the Fury as Benjy s book, takes the Figurative...

... with Joe s castration), often exaggerates the significance of the reading process (the meanings found by the constitutive conscious­ ness makes up parts of plots not provided by the books (one of Flem Snopes s long-term motivations was the shooting of his father, Ab, by Colonel Sartoris), uses...

... man enlarges rather than limits appreciation of these writers. Among Lindberg s most provocative views are his reinterpretation of the con­ 352 The South Atlantic Quarterly troversial ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and his discussions of the confidence man in Faulkner s Snopes trilogy...

... in the same tradition, but to this reviewer, the analogies between Houston and Ahab and between Ike Snopes and Melville s Pip seem forced. The Wasteland theme, touched upon by other critics, is, throughout the book, given prominence, with the judgment that to fill the void of meaninglessness in Faulkner s...

... in Faulkner’s The Hamlet in which a mentally disabled man, Ike Snopes, elopes with a cow. As in Zoo, we are not shown the sex but we are shown others watching it. Unlike the horse owners in Zoo, Faulkner’s characters are eager to look; V. K. Ratliff feels compelled to intervene when he dis- covers...

.... Ashmore talks about, when a rich Negro leaves behind a widow with sufficient holdings to justify one of the Snopes boys marrying her for her money! And when that imaginary day arrives, Bourbonism will either be completely triumphant or completely dead. ...

... but reduced to the meanness in two senses which William Faulkner rendered in the Snopes clan, and utterly defeated and displaced on the W.P.A. in the ironically titled Men Working. In Dollar Cotton, the protagonist is a displaced hillman, See Harry Serwer, Fabulous but Real, The Freeman, II (March 24...

... happier Nathan Pedlar, while Jason Greylock plays the historical role which Faulkner assigns to Gail Hightower. In the Snopes Trilogy Faulkner portrayed the triumph of the lowest classes against the aristocratic order and expressed his deep revulsion for the moral chaos which followed that displacement...