Reading Faulkner. The Unvanquished : title: Glossary and Commentary Reading Faulkner Series author: Hinkle, James.; McCoy, Robert. publisher: University Press of Mississippi isbn10 | asin: 0878057854 print isbn13: 9780878057856 ebook isbn13: 9780585217253 language: English Faulkner, William,--1897-1962.-- Unvanquished , Faulkner, William,--1897- subject 1962--Language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. publication date: 1995 lcc: PS3511.A86U537 1995eb ddc: 813/.52 Faulkner, William,--1897-1962.-- Unvanquished , Faulkner, William,--1897- subject: 1962--Language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. Page i Reading Faulkner The Unvanquished Page ii Reading Faulkner Series Noel Polk, Series Editor Page iii Reading Faulkner The Unvanquished Glossary and Commentary by James C. Hinkle and Robert McCoy University Press of Mississippi Jackson Page iv Copyright © 1995 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 98 97 96 95 4 3 2 1 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hinkle, James. Reading Faulkner. The unvanquished: glossary and commentary / by James C. Hinkle and Robert McCoy. p. cm.(Reading Faulkner series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87805-784-6 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-87805-785-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Unvanquished. 2. Faulkner, William, 1897-1962LanguageGlossaries, etc. I. McCoy, Robert. II. Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Unvanquished. III. Title. IV. Series. PS3511 .A86U537 1995 813'.52dc20 94-43863 CIP British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available Page v Contents Series Preface vii Preface To The Unvanquished xi How To Use This Book xiii Chapter I 3 Ambuscade Chapter II 66 Retreat Chapter III 88 Raid Chapter IV 119 Riposte In Tertio Page vi Chapter V 134 Vendée Chapter VI 149 Skirmish at Sartoris Chapter VII 168 An Odor of Verbena Chronology 211 Bibliography 215 Index 225 Page vii Series Preface This volume is one of a series of glossaries of Faulkner's novels which is the brainchild of the late James Hinkle, who established its principles, selected the authors, worked long hours with each of us in various stages of planning and preparation, and then died before seeing any of the volumes in print. The series derives from Jim's hardcore commitment to the principle that readers must understand each word in Faulkner's difficult novels at its most basic, literal, level before hoping to understand the works' "larger" issues. In pursuit of this principle, Jim, a non-Southerner, spent years of his scholarly life reading about the South and things Southern, in order to learn all he could about sharecropping, about hame strings, about mule fact and lore, about the Civil War, about blockade running, duelling, slavery and Reconstruction, Indian culture and history. When he had learned all he could from published sources, he betook himself to county and city archives to find what he could there. He was intrigued by Faulkner's names, for example, and over the years compiled a fascinating and invaluable commentary on their etymologies, their cultural and historical backgrounds, and, not least, their pronunciations: Jim is the only person I know of who listened to all of the tapes of Faulkner's readings and interviews at the University of Virginia, in order to hear how Faulkner himself pronounced the names and words he wrote. In short, for Jim, there was no detail too fine, no fact or supposition too arcane to be of interest or potential significance for readers of Faulkner: he took great pleasure in opening up the atoms of Faulkner's world, and in exploring the cosmos he found there.