Date of Award
1-1-2012
Language
English
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
College/School/Department
Department of English
Content Description
1 online resource (vi, 65 pages) : PDF file
Dissertation/Thesis Chair
Paul Stasi
Committee Members
Patricia Chu
Keywords
Absalom, Absalom!, Faulkner, Go Down, Moses, The Sound and the Fury, Time, Characters and characteristics
Subject Categories
American Literature | Arts and Humanities | Modern Literature
Abstract
The protagonists of three of William Faulkner's major novels, Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury, and Go Down, Moses each suffer from a compromised self that originates out of a past that contains excised elements. This revised history, which redacts past sins of rape, murder, and racial mixing, serves as a foundation for the present, passed down to the Faulknerian protagonists, Quentin, Jason, and Isaac, along lines of paternal inheritance. The three novels each suggest that when an idea of the self in the present is founded upon a past that has been rewritten, a shattering occurs when that excised past is rediscovered.
Recommended Citation
Delgado, Anthony Joseph, "Contriving history : making dead time in select works of William Faulkner" (2012). Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024). 619.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/legacy-etd/619