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Chapter 3 focuses on William Faulkner’s Sanctuary and Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not, both of which situate themselves in the hardboiled tradition. Where the critically successful Faulkner looked to go commercial and engage the mass reader, the commercially successful Hemingway looked to go engagé and prove something both to the literary pundits who accused him of anti-intellectualism and to the Marxists who derided him for the cult of the individual in the age of the masses.
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- 1.
Both on page vi; see also Sanctuary, Vintage edition, 322–323.
- 2.
Ibid, page vi.; see also Cantwell; Collins. On the contract, see Minter, 139.
- 3.
Fiedler (1988), 76; cf., telling remarks on James in “Faulkner at Virginia” (audio file).
- 4.
See Creighton; Moreland; “A Rose for Emily” owes some of its popularity to The Zombies’s eponymous 1968 track.
- 5.
Camus, 319; see also Warren, 295. In 1956 Camus adapted A Requiem for a Nun for the stage.
- 6.
Whitehurst Stone, 144; Faulkner’s report on the galleys in Meriwether and Millgate, 123. Proofs dates as per Blotner (1993); in (1964), Blotner places the receipt of proofs in November; Rampton dates it to January 1931, well nigh impossible given the publication date of 9 February 1931.
- 7.
In Blotner, 234.
- 8.
Page 72; below. The comic episodes are the country rubes in the city (Chap. 21), Red’s wake (Chap. 25), and the gossip session starring Miss Reba, Miss Myrtle, and Miss Lorraine (Chap. 25).
- 9.
Polk, 293; below, Malraux, 744.
- 10.
See Kahneman.
- 11.
Nelson, 42; on intentions and intentionality, see Swirski, Literature, Analytically (2010).
- 12.
Fruscione, Chap. 4.
- 13.
All page references to the Vintage edition.
- 14.
Popeye’s character first appeared in “The Big Shot” (ca. 1929, published posthumously); on American Gothic, see Soltysik Monnet.
- 15.
Established in 1972; nowadays renamed Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit (BRIU).
- 16.
Snell, 171; see also Watson, 3–4.
- 17.
Title chosen by the publisher, Random House; later published under Faulkner’s preferred title If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem.
- 18.
Act 1, scene 3; for the Faulkner estate lawsuit against Woody Allen (dismissed in 2013), see Leopold.
- 19.
On the map of Yoknapatawpha County Faulkner drew for the flyleaf of Absalom, Absalom!, the Old Frenchman Place is in the southeast quadrant.
- 20.
Blotner (1977), 185.
- 21.
Vickery, 114; on the sociobiology of evil, see Swirski (2011), Chap. 4. Faulkner’s Nobel speech: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-speech.html.
- 22.
The title could also refer to Temple in a veiled reference to Shakespeare in whose times a “nun” also denoted a prostitute.
- 23.
Seventy and ninety minutes respectively, both black and white.
- 24.
With Jules Furthman and (uncredited) Cleve F. Adams and Whitman Chambers; Faulkner also adapted Chandler’s The Big Sleep, starring again Bogart and Bacall.
- 25.
Reynolds, 123; Blotner (1964).
- 26.
See Donaldson.
- 27.
Hemingway’s first book of fiction, Three Stories and Ten Poems, was printed privately in mid-August 1923.
- 28.
In Meyers, 251; see also De Voto, 224; Connolly, 228; Rahv, 241; Kronenberger, 236.
- 29.
MacLeish, 71.
- 30.
Mostly on the advice of Arnold Gingrich; The Sun Also Rises benefitted as much, if not more, from excisions and revisions by Fitzgerald.
- 31.
Kronenberger, 440.
- 32.
See Edmund Wilson, in Lynn, 465.
- 33.
In Bercovitch, 219; see also Hotchner, 172.
- 34.
In Plimpton.
- 35.
Baker, 332.
- 36.
In Key Largo (1948), also starring Bogey and Bacall, director John Huston used another splinter of the book–the gun fight on the boat–for the climax.
- 37.
Swirski, Ars Americana, Chap. 3.
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Swirski, P. (2016). Boilerplate Potboilers: William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. In: American Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30108-2_3
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