Temporal Heatmaps: All Texts in Historical Order

Below are representations of the 68 texts currently in the Digital Yoknapatawpha database, arranged according to the historical moment between the early 19th and the mid-20th century that is the focus of the novel's or story's greatest narrative attention.

1931

"A Justice"

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1948

"A Courtship"

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1950

"A Name for the City"

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1930

"Red Leaves"

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1936

Absalom, Absalom!

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1943

"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"

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1934

"Ambuscade"

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1938

The Unvanquished

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1934

"Retreat"

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1934

"Raid"

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1936

"The Unvanquished"

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1936

"Vendee"

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1935

"Skirmish at Sartoris"

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1933

"Wash"

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1942

"The Bear"

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1936

"Fool About a Horse"

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1930

"A Rose for Emily"

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1939

"Barn Burning"

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1940

The Hamlet

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1940

"The Old People"

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1935

"That Will Be Fine"

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1962

The Reivers

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1935

"Lion"

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1931

"That Evening Sun"

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1931

"Spotted Horses"

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1932

"Miss Zilphia Gant"

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1931

"All the Dead Pilots"

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1940

"Tomorrow"

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1931

"Ad Astra"

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1931

"Dry September"

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1929

Flags in the Dust

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1932

"Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard"

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1957

The Town

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1930

As I Lay Dying

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1946

"Appendix: Compson"

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1929

The Sound and the Fury

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1931

Sanctuary

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1931

"The Hound"

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1931

"Hair"

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1932

"Smoke"

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1932

"Centaur in Brass"

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1935

"Uncle Willy"

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1933

"There Was a Queen"

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1932

"Death Drag"

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1932

Light in August

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1934

"A Bear Hunt"

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1933

"Beyond"

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1934

"Elly"

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1934

"Mule in the Yard"

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1937

"Monk"

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1951

Requiem for a Nun

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1949

"Knight's Gambit"

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1939

"Hand upon the Waters"

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1940

"A Point of Law"

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1940

"Pantaloon in Black"

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1940

"Gold Is Not Always"

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1941

"Go Down, Moses"

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1941

"The Tall Men"

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1942

"Delta Autumn"

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1942

Go Down, Moses

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1943

"Shingles for the Lord"

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1942

"Two Soldiers"

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1943

"Shall Not Perish"

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1946

"An Error in Chemistry"

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1959

The Mansion

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1948

Intruder in the Dust

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1955

"By the People"

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1955

"Race at Morning"

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