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Title: CHARACTER PARALLELS IN "THE SOUND AND THE FURY" AND "AS I LAY DYING.".
Creator: JACKSON, SANDRA I., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
Abstract/Description: William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) have often been considered as related works. It is my contention that As I Lay Dying is indeed a direct outgrowth of the earlier book and that it restates certain themes and exhibits several of the same personality types. A basic theme of the two books is the antithetical opposition of passive and active elements. Lesser themes are the opposition of words and deeds and the closely related opposition of individual...
Show moreWilliam Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) have often been considered as related works. It is my contention that As I Lay Dying is indeed a direct outgrowth of the earlier book and that it restates certain themes and exhibits several of the same personality types. A basic theme of the two books is the antithetical opposition of passive and active elements. Lesser themes are the opposition of words and deeds and the closely related opposition of individual freedom and the inability to achieve that freedom. Faulkner illustrates these themes through his characters. Parallel characters in the two novels are Caroline Compson and Anse Bundren, Caddy Compson and Addie Bundren, Miss Quentin and Jewel, and Quentin and Darl. In his presentation of the tension operating between these antithetical elements, Faulkner does not necessarily provide a resolution of that tension, but leaves conclusions to the reader.
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Date Issued: 1973
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13579
Subject Headings: Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Sound and the fury, Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--As I lay dying
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: BEYOND SANITY AND INSANITY IN TWO NOVELS BY WILLIAM FAULKNER.
Creator: RICHARD, DIANE LYNN., Florida Atlantic University, Rice, Julian
Abstract/Description: In the reading of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, the reader's preconceived ideas about sanity and insanity change through identification with each character. Both novels are told from multiple points of view. The reader's transition from one section of the novel into the next reflects crossing a threshold beyond which definitions of sanity must be reformulated. This creative process, mimetic of the writer-text relationship, leads to acceptance of all states of...
Show moreIn the reading of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, the reader's preconceived ideas about sanity and insanity change through identification with each character. Both novels are told from multiple points of view. The reader's transition from one section of the novel into the next reflects crossing a threshold beyond which definitions of sanity must be reformulated. This creative process, mimetic of the writer-text relationship, leads to acceptance of all states of consciousness, which are represented by sections of the novel, as part of the whole. Insanity becomes the fragmen t ation between each section, or state of consciousness, and the whole. This fragmentation appears in characters as hate, despair, and rage. Sanity emerges as wholeness and integration, represented in the novel and actualized in the reader as acceptance and love.
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Date Issued: 1983
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14158
Subject Headings: Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Sound and the fury, Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--As I lay dying, Mental illness in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Disembodied Voices of Remembrance: Male Trauma through the Aquatic and the Female Body in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Pat Conroy’s The Prince of Tides.
Creator: Blankman, Erika, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: In William Faulkner’s the Sound and the Fury, many scholars have debated about Caddy as Eve, the functionality of hermeneutic structure in relation to narrative function, and the use of Edenic scenery as a metaphor for Quentin Compsons’ world coming to an end. However, there is yet to be an analysis of Faulkner’s text in relation to trauma and ecocriticism and its influence on later Pat Conroy’s The Prince of Tides. It is through the female and the aquatic bodies that widen the interpretation...
Show moreIn William Faulkner’s the Sound and the Fury, many scholars have debated about Caddy as Eve, the functionality of hermeneutic structure in relation to narrative function, and the use of Edenic scenery as a metaphor for Quentin Compsons’ world coming to an end. However, there is yet to be an analysis of Faulkner’s text in relation to trauma and ecocriticism and its influence on later Pat Conroy’s The Prince of Tides. It is through the female and the aquatic bodies that widen the interpretation of Faulkner’s exploration of Southern male identity in relation to trauma, water, and memory its reflection onto the Southern environment. In Conroy’s text, he mirrors the way in which trauma is explored through the idea of water and the Faulknerian narrative technique, the stream of consciousness, which is activated only with the remembrance of the sister and her social ruin. Faulkner and Conroy delve into the South and communicate it as a site of decay, ruin, and a liminal space that inevitably exposes one to trauma. The men within Faulkner’s and Conroy’s texts must sift through their memories, both present and past, to define and identify the wound that disrupts their psyche [and its consequences]. This thesis aims to unpack Faulkner’s utilization of the female, terrestrial, and aquatic bodies as spaces that communicate male trauma. This thesis aims to suggest that, as an echo of Faulkner, Conroy’s text expands and further adapts the canon of Southern literature that takes an ecological approach to explore trauma in the form of water and the female body. This analysis aims to propose that the construction of Faulkner’s Southern ecology and its intersection between ecocriticism and trauma studies in relation to water influenced this approach and framework for Pat Conroy’s The Prince of Tides.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014170
Subject Headings: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Sound and the fury, Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation, Conroy, Pat--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: "None of us are androgynous": Androgyny in William Faulkner's "The Wild Palms".
Creator: Dawsey, Teresa Russell., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
Abstract/Description: Androgyny in literature is not a new topic. In William Faulkner's The Wild Palms, however, the significance of androgyny as theme has been largely overlooked. Androgyny is defined as the harmonious balance derived from accepting those individual aspects defined culturally and socially as masculine and feminine beyond the physical and biological. In this novel, Harry Wilbourne, a doctor and scientist, denies his androgyny while Charlotte Rittenmeyer, his lover and a sculptor, finds comfort and...
Show moreAndrogyny in literature is not a new topic. In William Faulkner's The Wild Palms, however, the significance of androgyny as theme has been largely overlooked. Androgyny is defined as the harmonious balance derived from accepting those individual aspects defined culturally and socially as masculine and feminine beyond the physical and biological. In this novel, Harry Wilbourne, a doctor and scientist, denies his androgyny while Charlotte Rittenmeyer, his lover and a sculptor, finds comfort and harmony in both her masculine and feminine traits. Harry faces a gender identity crisis when Charlotte, pregnant, decides to abort their child. Only after Charlotte dies of a botched abortion does Harry accept his memories--his responsibility for his past life with Charlotte (a masculine characteristic)--as well as his grief--over Charlotte's death and the loss of the grand passion he shared with her (feminine emotions). Harry, reborn, becomes a man: harmonious in his androgyny.
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Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15560
Subject Headings: Androgyny (Psychology) in literature., Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Wild palms
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: WILLIAM FAULKNER'S STYLISTIC DEVICES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE GODDESS-MOTHER.
Creator: MILLER, BERNICE B., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
Abstract/Description: William Faulkner created, through his use of varied stylistic devices, a female essence: a characterization that embodies an earth mother or reproductive female, an earth goddess or erotic female, and several characteristics common to both. When taken as a whole, such characteristics-- fecundity, innocence, adaptability, and apparent stasis in time and space--epitomize Faulkner's female essence.
Date Issued: 1971
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13444
Subject Headings: Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation., Women in literature.
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Title: LEVELS IN WILLIAM FAULKNER'S CONCEPT OF SUFFERING.
Creator: WILSON, RHONDA S., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
Abstract/Description: Suffering in the works of William Faulkner is the relationship between evil, self-acceptance, and moral maturity. Suffering is governed in degree by a character's ability to understand himself and the world, by his ability to accept his own sinful nature, and by his desire to move himself toward inner purity. Four levels of behavior can be identified in the reactions Faulkner's characters have toward evil. A character at level one is blind to evil in the world and especially to evil in...
Show moreSuffering in the works of William Faulkner is the relationship between evil, self-acceptance, and moral maturity. Suffering is governed in degree by a character's ability to understand himself and the world, by his ability to accept his own sinful nature, and by his desire to move himself toward inner purity. Four levels of behavior can be identified in the reactions Faulkner's characters have toward evil. A character at level one is blind to evil in the world and especially to evil in himself. A character at level two is trapped by the failures in his life and reacts to the world with hatred and bitterness. On level three the humiliation of accepting his own evil permits personal responsibility for sin in a character's life. On level four, a character attempts to atone for personal sin and achieves inner peace through selflessness.
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Date Issued: 1977
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13857
Subject Headings: Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation, Suffering in literature
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Title: Under construction: positive-negative space in Faulkner and beyond.
Creator: Puleo, Simone Maria., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis probes the materiality of a text by focusing on elliptical matters. In The Culture of Time and Space, Stephen Kern introduces the term "positive-negative space" to describe the primacy of empty space as a formal subject matter in sculptures of the early twentieth century. With some caveats and distinctions, the thesis argues that Kern's theory of positive-negative space is crucial for reading Faulkner's crytic and polyvalent production of space. Using a smorgasbord of approaches...
Show moreThis thesis probes the materiality of a text by focusing on elliptical matters. In The Culture of Time and Space, Stephen Kern introduces the term "positive-negative space" to describe the primacy of empty space as a formal subject matter in sculptures of the early twentieth century. With some caveats and distinctions, the thesis argues that Kern's theory of positive-negative space is crucial for reading Faulkner's crytic and polyvalent production of space. Using a smorgasbord of approaches including psychoanalytic and reader-response criticism, feminist and critical race theories, post-structuralist and formalist notions of space, theories of the "hole" in fine arts sculpture, and the New Southern studies, my thesis reinvents the conception of positive-negative space, and asserts that positive-negative space as an artistic principle" is the modus operandi of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Sanctuary.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3358961
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, Space in literature, Place (Philosophy) in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Silence and sympathy: Race in the early short fiction of William Faulkner.
Creator: Gifford, Sheryl C., Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, Steven
Abstract/Description: Much critical debate has surrounded William Faulkner's treatment of race relations in the South; indeed, it is difficult to believe that a white Southern male could transcend the psychosocial realities that led to racial divisions in the post-Civil War South. However, Faulkner, as the "well-endowed" Aristotelian poet, was able to involve himself in the emotions he sought to imitate, and thus was able to transcend racial issues in the compact fictive space he established. Intent upon mastering...
Show moreMuch critical debate has surrounded William Faulkner's treatment of race relations in the South; indeed, it is difficult to believe that a white Southern male could transcend the psychosocial realities that led to racial divisions in the post-Civil War South. However, Faulkner, as the "well-endowed" Aristotelian poet, was able to involve himself in the emotions he sought to imitate, and thus was able to transcend racial issues in the compact fictive space he established. Intent upon mastering the intricacies of the short story, Faulkner, the self-admitted "failed poet," utilizes this genre to construct a subtle yet powerful critique of hypocritical racial divisions common in the postbellum South. The silences and subversive sympathies that abound in such short stories as "Dry September" and "That Evening Sun" are caught up within the confines of this fictive space, provoking the reader to resolve the discrepancies that purposefully exist.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15708
Subject Headings: Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Political and social views., Race relations in literature., African Americans in literature., Southern States--In literature.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Echoes of the western front: Images of trench warfare in the post-war fiction of West, Faulkner, and Caldwell.
Creator: McFather, Moira Kathleen., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: The war novels and propaganda of World War I infused Americans with a consciousness of trench warfare through images of degradation, discontinuity, and the irrelevance of human effort. Three modernist novels, The Day of the Locust (1933) by Nathanael West, As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner, and God's Little Acre (1934) by Erskine Caldwell, are infused with this same imagery. Though neither West, Faulkner, nor Caldwell participated in the war, their works symbolically echo the images...
Show moreThe war novels and propaganda of World War I infused Americans with a consciousness of trench warfare through images of degradation, discontinuity, and the irrelevance of human effort. Three modernist novels, The Day of the Locust (1933) by Nathanael West, As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner, and God's Little Acre (1934) by Erskine Caldwell, are infused with this same imagery. Though neither West, Faulkner, nor Caldwell participated in the war, their works symbolically echo the images of trench warfare, a development uniquely central to World War I. Although these novels do not mention war, the world of "The Great War" is their world. There has been much written on the symbolism in these three novels. No critic, however, associates the symbols with trench warfare. This thesis therefore relies on the historical and psychological research of World War I, which is then applied to the works of West, Faulkner, and Caldwell.
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Date Issued: 1992
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14854
Subject Headings: West, Nathanael,--1903-1940--Criticism and interpretation, Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation, Caldwell, Erskine,--1903---Criticism and interpretation, World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war
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Title: Unrecognized Pasts and Unforeseen Futures: Architecture and Postcolonialism in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury.
Creator: Haugk, Danielle, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the genesis, maintenance, and failure of rigid and exclusionary societal models present in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Yi- Fu Tuan's analysis of the concepts space and place serves as the foundational theoretical framework by which human spatiality may be interpreted. Combining Tuan's observations and architectural analysis with Edouard Glissant's concepts of atavistic and composite societal models allows for a much broader consideration of various political...
Show moreThis thesis examines the genesis, maintenance, and failure of rigid and exclusionary societal models present in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Yi- Fu Tuan's analysis of the concepts space and place serves as the foundational theoretical framework by which human spatiality may be interpreted. Combining Tuan's observations and architectural analysis with Edouard Glissant's concepts of atavistic and composite societal models allows for a much broader consideration of various political ideologies present in the South. Following this, it becomes necessary to apply a postcolonial lens to areas of Faulkner's literature to examine how these societal models are upheld and the effects they have on characters in both Reconstruction and post- Reconstruction eras. Within Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner showcases an aspect of southern history that allowed this societal model to flourish, how this model affected those trapped within it, and its ultimate failure for future generations.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004905, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004905
Subject Headings: Faulkner, William,--1897-1962.--Absalom, Absalom!--Criticism and interpretation., Faulkner, William,--1897-1962.--Sound and the fury--Criticism and interpretation., Glissant, Édouard,--1928-2011--Criticism and interpretation., Tuan, Yi-fu,--1930---Criticism and interpretation., Space (Architecture)--Southern States--History--19th century., Postcolonialism--Southern States., Plantation life in literature., Imperialism in literature., Literature and society--Southern States--History--20th century., Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Mental illness in literature (1)	+ -
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