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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Light in August"”.
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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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"Beyond Myth: Sexual Identity In ""light In August"" And Other Novels By William Faulkner (women, Narrative, Point Of View)"
This study re-evaluates standard critical interpretations of Faulkner's portrayal of female characters, using attitudes toward myth and legend suggested in A Fable to establish a scheme whereby female characters are either victims or exploiters of the archetypal feminine roles they are usually said …
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Faulkner's Marginal Couple and the Community
Unions of men and women at the margins of the community in Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon, and The Wild Palms disturb that community's sense of itself. These alternative couples challenge mainstream Faulkner critics' assessment of gender, which derives largely from Cleanth Brooks's argument that …
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Bridging the Gap between the Reality and the Myth of the American South: Three Authors' Efforts to Recover the Religious South
<p>This project explores the influence of literature on the religious South's progression beyond the civil religion of the Lost Cause. In this examination, I trace the development of the Southern mind from its inception into the Jim Crow South. In doing so, I contend that portions of the religious …
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The unity of collected stories of William Faulkner
Collected Stories of William Faulkner, published in 1950 and awarded the National Book Award for Fiction in 1951, is more than an arbitrarily arranged selection of representative stories. Indeed, it is remarkably similar in form and theme to many of Faulkner's novels, especially Go Down, Moses, and …
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Immortalizing the Human Spirit: Analyzing Faulkner through Schopenhauer
… and ambiguities of which require continued decipherment. Critics have attempted 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 …
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Intertextuality in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy
… fiction demands sophisticated theoretical reading paradigms. Intertextuality informed by poststructuralism is a theoretical approach that enables one to read the moral and aesthetic elements of McCarthy's work in productive ways. McCarthy's work is augmented by its connection to the works of …
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William Faulkner's Hebrew Bible: Empire and the Myths of Origins
I propose that William Faulkner's literary imagination is charged by a Jewish sensibility rooted in reverence for the Bible as a text that is as vital and relevant in his time as in any since its composition. The Hebrew Bible's narrative method of compiling, redacting, doubling, and retelling, and …
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The diaphoric structure and unity of William Faulkner's Go Down Moses
<p>I have always been fascinated with Faulkner. But I was forever intimidated by his complex artistry and sweeping vision, and my first reading of “The Bear” was a frustrating experience. This oddly disjunct work simply did not make sense to the young undergraduate who then preferred the lucidity …