Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Cleanth Brooks: History and the Sense of the Tragic
2: John Irwin: Repetition and Revenge
3: Thadious Davis: The Signifying Abstraction: Reading "The Negro" in Absalom, Absalom!
4: Eric Sundquist: Absalom, Absalom! and the House Divided
5: Minrose Gwin: The Silencing of Rosa Coldfield
6: Dirk Kuyk, Jr.: Sutpen's Design
7: Barbara Ladd: "The Direction of the Howling": Nationalism and the Color Line in Absalom, Absalom!
8: Absalom, Absalom!, Haiti and Labor History: Reading Unreadable Revolution: Richard Godden
9: William Faulkner: Remarks on Absalom, Absalom!
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About the Author

Fred Hobson is Professor of English and Lineberger Professor of Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.