About the Series

Preface

Introduction

``A Rose for Emily'': Faulkner's Modern Gothic Masterpiece

An introduction to the story, its themes, and its setting in both traditional and modern contexts.

Literature

About the Author

``A Rose for Emily''

Matter Deleted from ``A Rose for Emily''

Discussion Questions

Research Questions

Secondary Sources

Faulkner in the University: Class Conferences at the University of Virginia 1957--1958. New York: Random, 1959, Faulkner responds to students' questions about the story

Gwynn, Frederick L.

Joseph Blotner

``The Telltale Hair: A Critical Study of William Faulkner's `A Rose for Emily.' '' Arizona Quarterly (1972): 301-.Heller provides an overview of the story's narrative and themes

Heller, Terry.

``Styles of Reading.'' Poetics Today 3.1 (Winter 1982): 207--15. Dillon uses ``A Rose for Emily'' to demonstrate how readers respond to a work of literature

Dillon, George L.

``The Narrator in `A Rose for Emily.' '' The Journal of Narrative Technique 1.3 (Sept. 1971): 159--78. Sullivan discusses conventional ``point of view'' and the narrator's participation in the story he or she is telling

Sullivan, Ruth.

``Irony and Isolation: Narrative Distance in Faulkner's `A Rose for Emily.' '' The Faulkner Journal 3.2 (Spring 1993): 3--12. Rodman argues that the narrator is in most ways a man as isolated from the community he describes as Emily herself and that his distance from that community is an important part of the story's meaning

Rodman, Isaac.

``How Readers Make Meaning.'' College Literature 9 (Fall 1982): 207--15. Crosman suggests that readers' own experiences and principles help them make meaning of a work of literature

Crosman, Robert.

``A Rose for Emily,' by William Faulkner.'' Short Story Theory at a Crossroads. Eds. Susan Lohafer and Jo Ellen Clarey. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1989. Brown reflects on the significance of the differences between the ``sequential'' manner in which Emily's life in Jefferson occurred and the ``configurational'' manner in which the narrator reports it

Brown, Suzanne Hunter.

``Emily Grierson's Oedipus Complex: Motif, Motive, and Meaning in Faulkner's `A Rose for Emily.' '' Studies in Short Fiction 17.4 (Fall 1980): 397--405. Scherting uses Freudian psychoanalysis to explore Faulkner's story

Scherting, Jack.

``A Rose for `A Rose for Emily.' '' The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978. Fetterley explores the patriarchal assumptions behind the town's and the narrator's attitudes toward Emily's life and death

Fetterley, Judith.

``Of Time and Its Mathematical Progression: Problems of Chronology in Faullkner's `A Rose for Emily.' '' Studies in Short Fiction 29.2 (Spring 1992): 195--204. Moore examines Faulkner's original manuscript to untangle the story's chronology

Moore, Gene M.

Sample Student Research Paper

Bibliography

A bibliography of sources for understanding ``A Rose for Emily,'' its background, and various interpretations of it.

Works by William Faulkner

Works about William Faulkner

Appendix: Documenting Sources

A Guide to MLA Documentation Style

Parenthetical References in the Text

The List of Works Cited

Explanatory Notes

Credits