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CHARACTER PARALLELS IN "THE SOUND AND THE FURY" AND "AS I LAY DYING."
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
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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
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
Format
Document (PDF)
BEYOND SANITY AND INSANITY IN TWO NOVELS BY WILLIAM FAULKNER
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
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Unrecognized Pasts and Unforeseen Futures: Architecture and Postcolonialism in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury
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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