1. Trying to say: Critical responses to The sound and the fury and As I lay dying, 1929-49.
2. Taming the furies: Faulkner criticism in the 1950s and 1960s.
3. Sounding the depths: The sound and the fury and As I lay dying in the 1970s.
4. Division, death and desire: Race and form in Faulkner in the 1980s.
5. Mothers, signifyin(g) monkeys, and significant eyes: The sound and the fury and As I lay dying in the 1990s.