Table of Contents:
  • Background for Faulkner's narrative poetics
  • Visions: Foroms of modern consciousness
  • The Ways we see: Elements of perception
  • Visual thinking: Elements of conception
  • Fiction and the reader
  • Conclusion
  • Styles: Novelists of consciousness
  • The Conditions of narrative
  • Faulkner's predecessors
  • Conclusion
  • Faulkner and the modernist tradition
  • Style as vision: Method
  • Structural consciousness
  • Narrative consciousness
  • Constitutive consciousness
  • Conclusion
  • Style as vision: Accomplishment
  • Flags in the dust
  • The Sound and the fury
  • As I lay dyding
  • Sanctuary
  • Absalom, Absalom!
  • Go down, Moses
  • Conclusion.