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Is William Faulkner's fiction built on a fundamental dichotomy of outcast individual versus the healthy agrarian community? The New Critics of the 1930s advanced this view, and it has shaped much Faulkner criticism. However, in Faulkner's Marginal Couple, John Duvall... Read Full Overview

Drawing on semiotics, feminism, and Marxism, John Duvall challenges traditional views that Faulkner' fiction is essentially misogynist. Charting the many pairings of nurturing, passive males and strong, sexually active females in Faulkner' work, he undermines the view of Faulkner... Read Full Overview