David Wyatt

Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge. A speculative Reading of Faulkner. By John T. Irwin. Johns Hopkins. $8.95. What Mr. Faulkner is after, in a sense, is a continuum. He wants a medium without stops or pauses, a medium which is always of [...]

WARREN'S novels read like essays about themselves. His fictions continually resolve into apologues. It is scarcely possible while reading them to have the experience but miss the meaning. Where commentary does not preempt drama, it quickly intrudes [...]

Faulkner's Career: An Internal Literary History. By Gary Lee Stonum. Cornell. $12.50. Criticism, like the imagination, is always at the end of an era; it perpetually casts about for strategies to renew its reasons for being. We have exhausted th [...]

Faulkner: The Transfiguration of Biography. By Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Nebraska. $17. 50. A John Steinbeck gallivanted around Europe in search of the historical Malory, he became convinced that La Morte d' Arthur was a novel, and that Malory had [...]

Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response. By Lee Clark Mitchell. Princeton. $18.50. Our nostalgia for the past increasingly discovers the nostalgia of the past. The moment of fullness in which America felt itself present t [...]

The Epic of ReturnEpics take time. It now looks as if Star Wars will take about as long to produce as its core action takes to happen. At the current rate of production the nine episodes will emerge over a period of about 30 years. The movie's techno [...]

The Literature of California: Writings from the Golden State, Volume 1. Edited by Jack Hicks, James D. Houston, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Al Young. University of California Press. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paperback. If Nathaniel West hadn't been ki [...]

A blue postcard from New Haven has arrived. Postmark October 20, '95. "Outstanding!" the card reads. "Yale College Class of 1970. 25th Reunion Gift Total $2,980,575. 54% of You Participated." I did not attend the reunion, although I did make a smal [...]

John Steinbeck: A Biography. By Jay Parini. Henry Holt. $30.00.Steinbeck didn't much—like Steinbeck. Well into his forties he remained self-dismissive. As a young man his chosen emblem was Pigasus, the flying pig. Sensitive about his appearance— [...]

Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats and Modernism. By James Longenbach. Oxford. $19.95. Yeats and Pound lived together for three winters just before and during the early years of the Great War. Pound acted as Yeats' secretary, reading aloud to the older p [...]