SOURCE: "Sex & History: Origins of Faulkner's Apocrypha," in The Maker and the Myth: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1977, edited by Evans Harrington and Ann J. Abadie, University of Mississippi Press, 1978, pp. 43-70.
In the following essay, Simpson examines William Faulkner's works as they demonstrate the fusion and interiorization of history and sexuality in the modern consciousness.