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References
- Adamowski, T. H. (Spring 1977). "Faulkner's Popeye: The "Other" As Self". Canadian Review of American Studies . University of Toronto Press. 8 (1): 36–51. doi:10.3138/CRAS-008-01-04. S2CID 159783563. - Published online by University of Toronto Press on March 10, 2011. Also available at Project MUSE
- This was reprinted in: Bleikasten, André and Nicole Moulinoux (editors). Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner (Rennes, France), 1995. p. 51-66.
Notes
- 1 2 Phillips, Gene D. (Summer 1973). "Faulkner And The Film: The Two Versions Of "Sanctuary"". Literature/Film Quarterly . Salisbury University. 1 (2): 263–273. JSTOR 43795435. - Cited: p. 269.
- ↑ Fowler, Doreen. "Reading for the "Other Side": Beloved and Requiem for a Nun." In: Kolmerton, Carol A., Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg (editors). Unflinching Gaze: Faulkner and Morrison Re-Imagined. University Press of Mississippi, 1997. ISBN 1617035297, 9781617035296. Start: p. 139. CITED: p. 142.
- ↑ Degenfelder, E. Pauline (Winter 1976). "The Four Faces of Temple Drake: Faulkner's Sanctuary, Requiem for a Nun, and the Two Film Adaptations". American Quarterly . 28 (5): 544–560. doi:10.2307/2712288. JSTOR 2712288. - Cited: p. 554.
- ↑ https://immortalephemera.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/requiem-for-a-nun-ad-box-office-feb-27-1961-554x767.jpg.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) (from here) - ↑ Phillips, Gene D. (Summer 1973). "Faulkner And The Film: The Two Versions Of "Sanctuary"". Literature/Film Quarterly . Salisbury University. 1 (2): 263–273. JSTOR 43795435. - Cited: p. 271.
- ↑ Phillips, Gene D. Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art of Adaptation. University of Tennessee Press, 2001. ISBN 1572331666, 9781572331662. p. 81.
- ↑ Phillips, Gene D. Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art of Adaptation. University of Tennessee Press, 2001. ISBN 1572331666, 9781572331662. p. 80.
- ↑ Phillips, Gene D. Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art of Adaptation. University of Tennessee Press, 2001. ISBN 1572331666, 9781572331662. p. 82-83.
- ↑ Adamowski, page unknown.
- ↑ Cohen, Philip G., David Krause, and Karl F. Zender. "William Faulkner." In: Sixteen Modern American Authors Volume 2. Duke University Press, 1990. Start: p. 210. CITED: p. 276-275.
- ↑ Phillips, Gene D. (Summer 1973). "Faulkner And The Film: The Two Versions Of "Sanctuary"". Literature/Film Quarterly . Salisbury University. 1 (2): 263–273. JSTOR 43795435. - Cited: p. 273.
