Critical EssaysOn the Novel
Fredrickson, Michael A. "A Note on 'The Idiot Boy' as a Probable Source for The Sound and the Fury," 1966.
Jensen, Graham. "‘Something Terrible in Me’: A Note on Demon-Possession and Suicide in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury," 2009.
Bach, Peggy. "A Serious Damn: William Faulkner and Evelyn Scott." Southern Literary Journal.28:1, 1995.
Barker, Deborah E. and Ivo Kamps. "Much Ado About Nothing: Language and Desire in The Sound and the Fury." Mississippi Quarterly.Vol. 46, no. 3, 1993.
Collins, Carvel. "Miss Quentin's Paternity Again," 19--.
Davis, Boyd. "Caddy Compson's Eden."Mississippi Quarterly. 1977.
Deshaye, Joel. "A Brief Analysis of The Sound and the Fury's Namesake," 1999.
Dukes, Thomas. "Christianity as Curse and Salvation in The Sound and the Fury." Arizona Quarterly.Vol. 35, No. 2, 1979.
Fowler, Doreen. "The Triumph of Matter: The Sound and the Fury." Faulkner's Changing Vision: From Outrage to Affirmation. Ann Arbor: UM Research Press, 1983.
Matthews, John T. "The Discovery of Loss in The Sound and the Fury." The Sound and the Fury: A Norton Critical Edition. David Minter, ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982.
Meriwether, James B. "Notes on the Textual History of The Sound and the Fury." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.Vol. 56, Third Quarter, 1962.
Millgate, Michael. "The Composition of The Sound and the Fury." The Achievement of William Faulkner. London: Constable, 1965.
Morrison, Gail M. "The Composition of The Sound and the Fury." William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: A Critical Casebook. Andre Bleikasten, ed. New York, Garland, 1982.
Peavy, Charles D. "The Eyes of Innocence: Faulkner's 'The Kingdom of God'." Papers on Language and Literature. 2, No. 2 (Spring), 1966.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. "On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of Faulkner." Literary and Philosophical Essays. Annette Michelson, transl. London: Rider, 1955.
Stoicheff, Peter. "Faulkner's Foreign Levy: Macbeth, The Sound and the Fury, and Writerhood," 1992.
Scott, Evelyn. On Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, Inc., 1929.
On the Appendix
Cohen, Philip. "'The Key to the Whole Book': Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, the Compson Appendix, and Textual Instability," Texts and Textuality: Textual Instability, Theory, Interpreation. Philip Cohen, ed. New York: Garland, 1997.
On Benjy's Section
Bassan, Maurice. "Benjy at the Monument."English Language Notes.No. 2, 1964.
Berk, Lynn. "A Tale Told By an Idiot: The Problem of Language in the Novels of William Faulkner." Southern Studies. 1:4, 1990.
Brown, Arthur. "Benjy, the Reader, and Death: At the Fence in The Sound and the Fury." Mississippi Quarterly.Vol. 48, No. 3-4, 1995.
Burton, Stacy. "Benjy, Narrativity, and the Coherence of Compson History," 1995.
Fredrickson, Michael A. "A Note on 'The Idiot Boy' as a Probable Source for The Sound and the Fury." The Minnesota Review. 1966.
Grant, William E. "Benjy's Branch: Symbolic Method in Part I of The Sound and the Fury." Texas Studies in Literature and Language.XIII.4 (Winter), 1972.
Izsak, Emily K. "The Manuscript of The Sound and the Fury: The Revisions in the First Section." Studies In Bibliography. Vol. 20, 1967.
McLaughlin, Sara. "Faulkner's Faux Pas: Referring to Benjamin Compson as an Idiot." Literature and Psychology, 33:2, 1987.
Parker, Robert Dale. "'Where you want to go now': Recharting the Scene Shifts in the First Section of The Sound and the Fury." Faulkner Journal. 14:2, 1999.
Stewart, George R. and Joseph M. Backus. "'Each in Its Ordered Place': Structure and Narrative in 'Benjy's Section' of The Sound and the Fury." American Literature. 29:4, 1958.
Tilley, Winthrop. "The Idiot Boy in Mississippi: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury," 19--.
On Quentin's Section
Bockting, Ineke. "The Impossible World of the 'Schizophrenic': William Faulkner's Quentin Compson." American Literature. 24:3, 1990.
Brown, May Cameron. "The Language of Chaos: Quentin Compson in The Sound and the Fury." American Literature, 51 (Jan), 1980.
Cowan, James C. "Dream-Work in the Quentin Section of The Sound and the Fury." Literature and Psychology, 24, No. 3, 1974.
Davis, William V. "Quentin's Death Ritual: Further Christian Allusions in The Sound and the Fury." Notes on Mississppi Writers, 6, (Spring), 1973.
Feldstein, Richard. "Gerald Bland's Shadow."Literature and Psychology. 31:4, 1981.
Fowler, Doreen. "'Little Sister Death': The Sound and the Fury and the Denied Unconscious." Faulkner and Psychology / Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha. Donald Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie, eds. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994.
Pitavy, Francois. "Through the Poet's Eye: A View of Quentin Compson."William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: A Critical Casebook. Andre Bleikasten, ed. New York, Garland, 1982.
Pratt, J. Norwood. "Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury." Explicator, XIII (Jan), 1965.
Radloff, Bernhard. "Time and Time-Field: The Structure of Anticipation and Recollection in the Quentin-Section of The Sound and the Fury." Dalhousie Review. 65:1, 1985.
Ryan, Marjorie. "The Shakespearean Symbolism in The Sound and the Fury." Faulkner Studies, II (Autumn), 40-44, 1953.
Storhoff, Gary. "Faulkner's Family Crucible: Quentin's Dilemma." Mississippi Quarterly. 51:3-4, 465-482, 1998.
Sumner C. Powell. "William Faulkner Celebrates Easter, 1928." Perspective, II (Summer), 1949.
Tran, Qui-Phiet. "The Question of Suicide in The Sound and the Fury." New Orleans. (Winter) 14:4, 1987.
Intertexts
Assisi, Francis of. "The Canticle of the Sun."From Life of St. Francis of Assisi.Ed. Paul Sabatier. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
Faulkner, William."Twilight" from theholograph manuscript.
Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."From The Norton Anthology of Poetry.Shorter Fourth Edition. London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Keble, John. "Holy Matrimony." From the Hymnal of The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 1916.
Scott, Sir Walter. "Marmion." Reprinted in part from Horace E. Scudder (Ed.)'s The Complete Poetical Works of Scott. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1900.
Shakespeare, William.Macbeth and Macbeth's soliloquy, V. v. 19-28.
Wordsworth, William. "The Idiot Boy."The Lyrical Ballads. 1798. From The Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project.Ed. Bruce Graver and Ronald Tetreault. 24 March 1998.
The Akathist Hymn.Reprinted from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia site.
The Holy Bible.Reprinted in part from the New International Version. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Bible Publishers, 1978.
Cohen, Philip. "'The Key to the Whole Book': Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, the Compson Appendix, and Textual Instability," 1997.
Collins, Carvel. "Miss Quentin's Paternity Again," 19--.
Izsak, Emily K. "The Manuscript of The Sound and the Fury: The Revisions in the First Section," 1967.
Meriwether, James B. "Notes on the Textual History of The Sound and the Fury," 1962.
Millgate, Michael. "The Composition of The Sound and the Fury," 1965.
Morrison, Gail M. "The Composition of The Sound and the Fury," 1982.
Parker, Robert Dale. "'Where you want to go now': Recharting the Scene Shifts in the First Section of The Sound and the Fury." Faulkner Journal. 14:2, 1999.
Stewart, George R. and Joseph M. Backus. "'Each in Its Ordered Place': Structure and Narrative in 'Benjy's Section' of The Sound and the Fury." American Literature. 29:4, 1958.