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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Faulkner, William"”.
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"Not gone or vanished either:" William Faulker's use of memory and imagination
… that memory and imagination play in three of William 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 …
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The Rational and the Intuitive : a Thematic Juxtaposition in the fiction of William Faulkner
Throughout the broad scope of William Faulkner's fiction a thematic pattern emerges which has hitherto been little dealt with by his critics. This pattern presents, initially, an exploration of the principles of rationality and intuition as opposing faculties of the human mind. For Faulkner, …
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Disrupted constructions: Joe Christmas's formation of race and sexuality in Light in August
William Faulkner intended Joe Christmas to be a tragic character who would constantly seek an identity. He combats any threat to his safety—be it physical, mental, or emotional safety—with violent reactions that generally manifest in outbursts toward women for threatening his conception of his …
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The Writing of Nation: Faulkner and the Postbellum South
This dissertation argues that William Faulkner, drawing on a conversation begun by earlier Southern writers, writes his anxiety about the South's assimilation into the nation. Specifically, I argue that his early works show repulsion to the idea of the South's assimilation, while his later works …
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Faulkner, form, and the anxiety of cinematic influence
Faulkner, Form, and the Anxiety of Cinematic Influence addresses William Faulkner s career as it was split between two different disciplines: the craft of the novelist, and the less esteemed occupation of the screenwriter. Although renowned for his efforts in the first of these (for which he would …
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An American Dream: The Fatal Gambit For Sutpen And Gatsby
… delineate the characters of Thomas Sutpen from William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgearald's The Great Gatshy, as men of distinctive American character in fatal pursuit of the American dream. The attainment of that dream, defined as an individual goal of …
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Morality In William Faulkner's Novels
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William Faulkner: The Search and the Simile
<p>William Faulkner (1897-1962) is well known for his distinctive prose style -- his word choice, his long sentences, and his chains of imagery. In this paper, three novels, <em>Sartoris</em> (1929), <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em> (1936), and <em>The Mansion</em> (1955) are studied to see what can be …
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Three Studies in Characterization
… of life."</p> <p>RESPONSIBILITY AND CHARACTER IN FAULKNER'S FICTION. This paper classifies and evaluates several of Faulkner's main characters according to four specific types. "The first say, 'This is rotten, I'll have no part of it.' The second says 'This is rotten, I don't like it, I can't do …
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James Joyce and His Influence : William Faulkner and Anthony Burgess
… the influence of Joyce on selected works of William Faulkner and Anthony Burgess especially in regard to the major ideas and style, and pattern and motif. The works to be used, in addition to Ulysses, include Faulkner's "The Bear" in Go Down, Moses and Mosquitoes and Burgess' Nothing Like the …
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Dark Houses: Navigating Space and Negotiating Silence in the Novels of Faulkner, Warren and Morrison
… just inhabit interior spaces. In my reading of Faulkner and Warren, this ideology of division is clearly to be at fault in the collapse of houses, just as it is seen to be in the House of Usher. This emphasis is especially conspicuous in several works, beginning with Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! …
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Between the Mob and the Noose: The Lynching Intercessor in American Literature and Film
… Chesnutt, Thomas Dixon, Jr., director John Ford, William Faulkner, and Harper Lee, my dissertation reveals the lynching intercessor as an American narrative technique for incorporating lynching into a national story of racial progress.</p>
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"The worry that you are yourself": Darl's unforgivable neurodiversity in As I lay dying
… Bundren and the repeated motif of madness in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Possible psychiatric explanations for Darl's madness, including linguistic evidence for his psychotic breakdown, are explored. The paper does not agree with the critical use of words such as "insane" or "crazy" as …
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