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William Faulkner's Arthurian Tale: Mayday

This essay situates Faulkner's 1926 Arthurian novelette Mayday (first published in 1976) within the contexts of Arthurian literature (especially James Branch Cabell's Jurgen and James Russell Lowell's 'Vision of Sir Launfal') and some of Faulkner's earliest fiction. Salda contends that understanding how the novelette's dream frame functions is crucial to deciphering the adventures of Mayday's protagonist, Sir Galwyn of Arthgyl. Appendices contain codicological data about Faulkner's manuscript and bibliographic information about its publication.