Resources for Absalom, Absalom!
Digital Yoknapatawpha's main page for Absalom includes a link to an interactive chapter-by-chapter Chronology of the novel's most significant events, which we developed specifically for first-time readers. It is designed to give them a means to keep track of "what happens" that stays closer to the experience of reading the novel than conventional chronologies – including the one that Faulkner himself created.
The other resource here, John Padgett's video, is also a great introduction to using many of DY's various functionalities.
Video
- John B. Padgett, "Using Digital Yoknapatawpha to Analyze Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! as a Gothic Text"
Visualization
- Stephen Railton, "Chapter-by-chapter Chronology"