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Keeping "body and soul together": Rosa Coldfield's gothic voice in absalom, absalom!
… spinster aunt. The first section of this essay, “Absalom, Absalom! as Rosa’s Text,” argues that Rosa is a marginalized and hysteric character in the eyes of her community and her fellow narrators. Rosa’s narrative of Thomas Sutpen is surrounded by narratives of Mr. Compson, Quentin, Shreve and a …
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The road to Absalom
The Road to Absalom is set in contemporary South Africa, where, for much of the predominantly young population, the country's ancien regime is little more than a childhood memory. David is a young articled clerk living a hedonistic and carefree life with his model girlfriend, Georgina, in Cape …
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Self-Creation, Community, and Autonomy: theLiberation of Richard Rorty'S Philosophy of Self As Imagined by Absalom, Absalom!
… the subject as imagined William Faulkner's <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>. More specifically, after giving a detailed account of Rorty's theory of the self, I will illuminate shortcomings in his conception of the relationship between the self and community by engaging with the work of John Brenkman. …
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Thomas Watson's 'Absalom,' an Edition, Translation, and Critical Study
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5801740.pdf: 26171896 bytes, checksum: f8393159b5134561843a392f7e3ebc3b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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The translator's habitus and shifts : a study on modulations in the Persian translations of Faulkner's 'The Sound And The Fury', 'Go Down Moses' and 'Absalom! Absalom!'
The present study enquires into the fundamental issue of the translator's habitus(Bourdieu 1990). We take up John B. Thompson's synthetic translation of the concept ofhabitus (1991) while exploring descriptive explanatory interpretive hypotheses about thetranslator's text production activity. The …
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"Not gone or vanished either:" William Faulker's use of memory and imagination
… Faulkner’s novels: The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom! and The Unvanquished. While most scholars perceive Faulkner’s characters as burdened, debilitated, and destroyed by the past, I argue that Faulkner presents a wide spectrum of engagement with the past which includes the potential …
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"Words Are No Good": The Curse of Signification and the Curse of Faulkner's South
… Yoknapatawpha County: As I Lay Dying (1930), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), and Go Down, Moses (1942). These novels, I argue, indicate a development in Faulkner’s relationship to the formalist hierarchy of art over real life. To show this development I will investigate the topic of language as an …
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"Words Are No Good": The Curse of Signification and the Curse of Faulkner's South
… Yoknapatawpha County: As I Lay Dying (1930), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), and Go Down, Moses (1942). These novels, I argue, indicate a development in Faulkner’s relationship to the formalist hierarchy of art over real life. To show this development I will investigate the topic of language as an …
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The art of rank: a revaluation of John Dryden's satires
… elements. Focusing on his greatest satire, "Absalom and Achitophel ," this study shows Dryden's political, intellectual, and literary appropriateness for incorporating in the poem sexual and scatological imagery which is hidden by syntactical ambiguity. Dryden's satiric style is unified by …
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Moonscape
… for the novel comes from William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!, but the form and setting for the piece follows T. S. Eliot's poem, "The Wasteland". One character is patterned after Eliot's Sweeney, the heathen pragmatist who appears throughout his poetry until 1927, the year of Eliot's …
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The Mythic Conquest of Time in Faulkner's Fiction
… depth explorations of Faulkner's masterpieces, Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and The Fury seeks to consider human mythmaking as the key to understanding Faulkner's difficult works. This critical approach allows us to better understand these works as conflicts between diachronic (linear or …
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The spaces of sex : perversion, performance and place in literature between the wars
… McKay’s Home to Harlem, William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, Jean Toomer’s Cane, Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood. Drawing on Lefebvre and Foucault, this project seeks to examine the ways that space collides with cultural expectations to produce characters whose …
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Growing Up Faulkner: Coming of Age, Identity, and Parental Responsibility in Three Faulkner Families.
… William Faulkner's fiction, specifically in <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>, <em>The Sound and the Fury</em>, and <em>As I Lay Dying</em>, the impact of parents who intimately know failure and loss figure largely in the strange coming of age of their children. In the Compson family, the Sutpen family …
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Immortalizing the Human Spirit: Analyzing Faulkner through Schopenhauer
… to interpret If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem; Absalom, Absalom!; As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury; and Light in August through various critical approaches, yet none has successfully pinpointed Faulkner's aesthetic philosophy. This dissertation satisfies the critical deficiency by studying …
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To be prosecuted, banished, and shot : motives, morals, and the modern American hero
… of constant flux concerned William Faulkner in Absalom, Absalom! and F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby. Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March and Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel depict heroes dissatisfied with but undaunted by the limitations of human perceptions. Sherwood …
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The Influence and Subversion of the Southern Folk Tradition in the Novels of William Faulkner
… vernacular consciousness, the storytelling in Absalom, Absalom! or the trickster figure in the Snopes novels. I will be using Ed Piacentino’s The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor for secondary research and Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic Imagination and Rabelais and his World to provide a …
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Cryptic Secrets: Phantoms of the Haitian Revolution in the American Imaginary
… Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’, William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Mervyn, George Washington Cable’s The Grandissimes, and the Halperin brothers’ film White Zombie, it demonstrates the endurance of particular social, political, and cultural anxieties that are often …
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Building Yoknapatawpha: Reading Space and the Plantation in William Faulkner
… as “open” and “closed”. It considers how Absalom, Absalom! (1936) attempts to recuperate the repressed historical connections present in Flags in the Dust (1929), only to erase them once more through death, destruction, and narrative closure. It considers how Go Down, Moses (1942) offers …
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