Talk:Sanctuary (Faulkner novel)

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Citation Needed[edit]

This article needs inline citations. thezeus18 (talk) 22:23, 27 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.179.10.35 (talk) [reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:57, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Plot summary[edit]

The plot summary and character list added about 18 months ago were dominating this article, and added little to it except a long and practically unreadable blow-by-blow account of the novel. I have removed them and suggest that a much briefer, more encyclopedic summary might be useful in this article. --Tony Sidaway 14:29, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Until such a briefer synopsis is written I have restored the plot description and characters list. Maikel (talk) 12:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, that is about the best synopsis of Sanctuary I have come across. And the blow-by-blow account is actually very useful for reading Faulkner. Maikel (talk) 22:58, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Dumpendebat (talk) 04:33, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for keeping the synopsis. I found the novel difficult, and the synopsis cleared up a few plot points for me. Éric2100 (talk) 05:32, 2 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What sanctuary?[edit]

Which is the sanctuary meant by the title? The moonshine distillery? The brothel in Memphis? Memphis? Paris? Maikel (talk) 22:04, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I always thought that "sanctuary" referred to men's idea of women and the female body. The sanctuary being sought is Temple... hence the name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hannah Angelove (talk • contribs) 08:32, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All of those, of course, could be thought of as sanctuaries in sanctuary.193.251.43.248 (talk) 18:01, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is it really clear that Horace actually masturbates in chapter 23?[edit]

I don't think that's made explicitly clear, not enough for the article to plainly state it. One analysis I read has him vomiting instead. What is stated is that he has an unpleasant feeling in his stomach, rushes to the bathroom, "strikes" the lavatory (sink), and then proceeds to be heavily disturbed by imagery of his stepdaughter naked, conflated with imagery from what he has heard from Temple about her night at the old mansion. I think taking out the statement that he masturbates is warranted, because it could actually be a bit of a stretch. AaronW from ABQ (talk) 23:00, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Possible sources[edit]

Fowler, Doreen (Summer 2004). "Faulkner's Return to the Freudian Father: Sanctuary Reconsidered" (PDF). MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 50 (2): 411–434.
Johnson, Amanda R. (August 2014). "Nothing Is as It Seems: Reading Deviance in Faulkner's Sanctuary and McCullers' Reflections in a Golden Eye" (PDF). Middle Tennessee State University. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) - Master's degree thesis
DeShong, Scott (Fall 1995). "Toward an Ethics of Reading Faulkner's "Sanctuary"". The Journal of Narrative Technique. 25 (3): 238–257. JSTOR 30225430.

WhisperToMe (talk) 06:52, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]