I have divided up these scholarly sources into their critical approaches. If you are especially interested in history, race, gender, or psychoanalysis in Faulkner, take a look at the criticisms that apply. And remember: these are only a tiny fraction of the Faulkner resources that are out there. Take a look at your school or local library for more!

New Critical Approach: New Criticism looks at the way the elements of a text work together in image and thematic patterns. It is a coherent interpretation of the whole work in question.

Backman, Melvin. Faulkner: The Major Years. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1966.

Brooks, Cleanth. William Faulkner: First Encounters. New Haven: Yale UP, 1983

Brooks, Cleanth. William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country. New Haven: Yale UP, 1963.

Brooks, Cleanth. William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond. New Haven: Yale UP, 1978.

Vickery, Olga. The Novels of William Faulkner: A Critical Interpretation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1964.

Feminist Criticism: These works look at women and gender in Faulkner and the way that Faulkner looks at women and gender.

Clarke, Deborah. Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.

Gwin, Minrose C. The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading Beyond the Sexual Difference. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

Psychoanalytic Criticism: These two books view details of Faulkner texts and, through them, Faulkner as the object to be analyzed. They attempt to discover the unconscious of the text by looking at the unconscious motives and dreams that influence the actions of the characters and also the writing of the author.

Fowler, Doreen. The Return of the Repressed. Charolottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Irwin, John T. Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1975.

Racial Criticism: So much of Faulkner's canon deals with racial issues that a whole school of criticism has developped which investigates Faulkner's treatment of race.

Abadie, Ann J. and Doreen Fowler, eds. Faulkner and Race: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1986. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1987.

Davis, Thadious M. Faulkner's "Negro": Art and the Southern Context. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.

Towner, Theresa M. Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels. Jackson: Univesity Press of Mississippi, 1987.

Historical Criticism: These books look at Faulkner in the context of how the South and the history of the South influenced his writing.

Doyle, Don H. Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Williamson, Joel. William Faulkner and Southern History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

DON'T FORGET TO LOOK AT LITERARY JOURNALS AS WELL!

Two journals that offer a lot of articles and criticism on Faulkner are The Faulkner Journal and The Mississippi Quarterly. I have provided links to the websites of these two scholarly journals; The Mississippi Quarterly website indicates that it will soon have a digital library available containing all of the past issues up until 1997. The Faulkner Journal site has a list of back issue articles. If any of the titles of these articles seem interesting, you can probably find them at a local library.