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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"The Sound and The Fury"”.
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The Sound and the Fury: Common Sense About the Exxon Valdez
"Using articulation theory, it moves beyond the quagmire of the great wilderness debate, and charts a middle ground between, on the one hand, the overly optimistic and non-deterministic celebration of ""wild nature"" as an unproblematic solution to complex social and ecological problems, and, on …
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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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Matrices Of Disorder: Class, Race, And The Policing Of Normative Southern Femininity In William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, And Requiem For A Nun
… I apply Judith Butler's late twentieth century theory of gender performance, outlined in her book Gender Trouble , to three major novels from William Faulkner's early career, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Sanctuary, and to one novel from his later period, Requiem for a Nun. This …
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"Not gone or vanished either:" William Faulker's use of memory and imagination
This thesis examines the role 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 …
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The Mythic Conquest of Time in Faulkner's Fiction
… time, a philosophy that emphasizes human freedom and action precisely as they relate to time. However, many of Faulkner's characters are defined by their stagnant and lethargic personalities which cannot change; these characters are held immobile by an over – identification with the rich history …
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Growing Up Faulkner: Coming of Age, Identity, and Parental Responsibility in Three Faulkner Families.
… 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 and the Bundren family, the …
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Immortalizing the Human Spirit: Analyzing Faulkner through Schopenhauer
As a writer who composed some of the most formidable American prose of the twentieth century, William Faulkner wrote modernist novels the numerous complexities and ambiguities of which require continued decipherment. Critics have attempted to interpret If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem; Absalom, …
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Lost in Time: The Concept of Temporality in Works of the US Lost Generation
The main focus of this thesis is the concept of time and temporality as represented in the major works of the US Lost Generation. The authors and the writings examined within this thesis are F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night; Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and A …
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The Futility of Conformity: The Danger of Gender Constructs In the <em>Sound and theFury</em>
This thesis focuses on William Faulkner's novel <em>The Sound and the Fury</em> and the role sexuality plays in Quentin Compson's construction of identity. I propose that Quentin is incapable of reconciling his potential homosexuality with the expectations his family, friends and elite Southern …
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The Theme Of Sacrifice: A Comparison Of The Primitive Practices Recorded In The Golden Bough With Representative Works Of Faulkner
… fiction reveals that he fuses an understanding of the religious practices of primitive people found in The Golden Bough with a knowledge of Christian symbols to create his own mythology. The practices recorded in The Golden Bough, together with Hebrew rituals, form a rich background …
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The Cost Of Kinship: Southern Literary Families And The Capitalist Machine
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the thematic role of families and the familial in the literature of the Southern Renaissance. Whereas a number of scholars have come at this matter from a strictly cultural perspective, this analysis utilizes an economic framework. Following the example set …
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The diaphoric structure and unity of William Faulkner's Go Down Moses
… 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 of Ernest Hemingway and the grey gloom of Graham …
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Plantation America: the US South and the Caribbean in the literary culture of empire, 1898-1959
The American plantation system, far from an idiosyncrasy of the southern United States, was a transnational formation that spread across the US South, the Caribbean, and parts of Latin America, forming a cross-border cultural sphere often called “Plantation America.” How have US and Caribbean …
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"Motionless as an Idol": The Roles of Art, Modernism, and Religion in William Faulkner's Construction of Gender
… body of work addresses many specific issues and conditions specific to the South, but this project focuses on the place of Southern women in society and Faulkner's exploration of their subjugation through the language and images of art. I will analyze three of his texts: "A Rose for Emily," …
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Faulknerian comedy
… in Faulkner’s major fiction; it deals with the comic elements of the early dark novels as well as with the comic vision which permeates the late ones. It leaves out of account, without further apology, <em>Soldier’s Pay</em>, <em>Sartoris</em>, <em>The Unvanquished</em>, <em>Pylon</em>, …
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LINES THAT BIND: DISABILITY’S PLACE IN THE MODERNIST WRITINGS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER, AMY LOWELL, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND EZRA POUND
This dissertation explores the effects disability had on the aesthetics of American modernist writers like Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, Amy Lowell, and Ezra Pound at a time when eugenics' insistence on a superior and uniform humanity dominated social thought and how their writings complicate …