Contents

Preface

  1. Explorations: SOLDIER’S PAY; MOSQUITOES

  2. Apprenticeship: SARTORIS

  3. “Form, Solidity, Color”: THE SOUND AND THE FURY

  4. Vision: AS I LAY DYING

  5. Outrage and Compassion: SANCTUARY; LIGHT IN AUGUST

  6. New World: PYLON; THE WILD PALMS

  7. Past as Present: ABSALOM, ABSALOM!

  8. Present as Past: THE UNVANQUISHED; THE HAMLET

  9. Tragic, Comic, and Threshold: THE SHORT STORIES

10. The Artist as Moralist: INTRUDER IN THE DUST; REQUIEM FOR A NUN; A FABLE; THE TOWN

11. “A Passion Week of the Heart”

12. “From Jefferson to the World”

Notes

Index