Faulkner’s Ethics

Michael Wainwright is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

• Introduction.- 1 Authorial Irresponsibility: Hemingway’s “The Battler” and Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”.- 2 The Benevolence of Self-Sacrifice: Kenosis in William Faulkner’s Light in August.- 3 William Faulkner, John Bowlby and Strains of Familial Attachment in Pylon.- 4 Egoistic Hedonism: Thomas Sutpen’s Dubious Guide to an Ignoble End in Absalom, Absalom!.- 5 The Moral Mathematics of Strategic Games in The Unvanquished.- 6 The Gifted Presence of Intruder in the Dust.- 7 A Fable: Buchwald’s Disfiguring of Faulkner’s Modernisms.- Conclusion: The Levine Shadow.