Front cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. Faulkner and the Reader; Chapter 1. (you never smelled a frightened horse, did you?): The Sound and the Fury; Chapter 2. To Look Upon Evil: The Conspiring Reader of Sanctuary; Part 2. Writers in Yoknapatawpha; Chapter 3. Doing Things Bigger Than He Was: John Sartoris; Chapter 4. That Florid, Swaggering Gesture: Thomas Sutpen; Chapter 5. Monuments and Footprints: The Mythology of Flem Snopes; Part 3. Readers in Yoknapatawpha; Chapter 6. Witnesses to the Extinction: Reading the Sartoris Text