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Pyra, Justyna. "Stream of Consciousness and Polyphony in William Faulkner’s Novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! An Attempt at Synthesis." Tekstualia 1, no. 44 (January 4, 2016): 59–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.4189.

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The article applies Robert Humphrey’s analysis of the narrative mode of stream of consciousness to William Faulkner’s novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! It discusses Faulkner’s uses of different types of stream of consciousness and his presumed purposes behind the employment this narrative mode. Unlike some other modernist writers, who treated stream of consciousness as a literary experiment, Faulkner developed it into a complex narrative mode.

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Zhang, Duan,. "AN ANALYSIS OF ABSALOM, ABSALOM! FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF NEW HISTORICISM." Cultural Communication And Socialization Journal 1, no. 2 (October 12, 2020): 31–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.26480/ccsj.02.2020.31.33.

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New Historicism subverts the traditional binary opposition between literature and history, highlights the operation of “power” and “discourse” within texts, and explores two-way concerns for history and texts. Under the perspective of new historicism, this paper aims to interpret how HISTORICITY OF TEXTS and TEXTUALITY OF HISTORY are embodied in Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner. The paper concludes that, Faulkner’s resorting to literary creation, on one hand, reflects the history and on the other hand, highlights the reality, which realizes the interaction between literature and history.

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Fossett, Judith Jackson. "Sold Down the River." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 122, no. 1 (January 2007): 325–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2007.122.1.325.

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in that city foreign and paradoxical, with its atmosphere at once fatal and languorous, at once feminine and steel-hard—William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)Do you know what it means to miss New OrleansAnd miss it each night and dayI know I'm not wrong, the feeling's getting strongerThe longer I stay awayDo you know what it means to miss New OrleansSince that's where you left your heart(And there's something more)I miss the one I care for more than I miss New Orleans—Louis Alter (music) and Eddie DeLange (lyrics),“Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans” (1946)BOMBARDED BY THE DISCOURSE OF “TRAGEDY” FROM MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS TRYING TO CHARACTERIZE post-Katrina New Orleans, I decided to reread William Faulkner. Ungluing myself from the computer screen, I hoped to distract myself with a literary version of another tragedy of the South. Faulkner's sense of the city's “paradox” and “foreign”-ness—in the case of this hurricane, the fury of climatic events that inexorably led to incomprehensible effects: much of its citizenry's forced migration, dispossession of property, and denial of the right of return as well as ecological catastrophe—was geographically and culturally resonant.

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Im, Seo Hee. "The Ghost in the Account Book: Conrad, Faulkner, and Gothic Incalculability." Novel 52, no. 2 (August 1, 2019): 219–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7546745.

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Abstract “The Ghost in the Account Book” claims that the imperial fiction of Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner rejects accounting as a totalizing logic and, by extension, questions the English novel's complicity in propagating faith in that false logic. Accounting, which had remained unobtrusively immanent to realist novels of empire such as Mansfield Park and Great Expectations, surfaces to the diegetic level and becomes available for critical scrutiny in high modernist novels such as Heart of Darkness or Absalom, Absalom! Drawing from writings by Max Weber (on guarantees of calculability) and Mary Poovey (on the accuracy effect), this essay attends to the dandy accountant of Heart of Darkness, the accretive narrative structure of Nostromo, and Shreve's recasting of Sutpen's life as a debtor's farce in Absalom, Absalom! If Conrad bluntly equates accounting with lying, Faulkner reveals secrets elided in rows of debit and credit one by one as sensational truths; to those ends, both writers invoke Gothic conventions. By dispatching the totalizing technique that had been invented by early modern merchants and finessed by realist novelists to generate faith in a stable fiduciary community, Conrad and Faulkner impel the invention of newer forms and figures with which to express the new imperial (and later, postcolonial) world order.

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Linde, E., and D. H. Steenberg. "Intertekstualiteit en die Bose in Kroniek van Perdepoort (Anna M. Louw)." Literator 7, no. 2 (May 7, 1986): 20–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v7i2.879.

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In Anna M. Louw’s novel Kroniek van Perdepoort the primal conflict between good and evil is an important constituent element. Well-known authors in world literature have been fascinated by this problem, and it is an enriching experience to bring together allusions and to investigate points of contact with authors such as Feodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann. William Faulkner and Patrick White. In Kroniek van Perdepoort there is a meeting between Klaas Kamer and the devil. Similarities between this meeting and similar meetings in Dr Faustus (Thomas Mann) and The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky) are pointed out.Subsequently the portrayal of sin in Kroniek van Perdepoort is compared with Faulkner’s novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, in which a similar theme is represented.Patrick White is also an author of religious literature to whom Anna M. Louw is attracted by her own admission. His novels. The solid Mandala and Riders in the Chariot are studied, and similarities with Kroniek van Perdepoort indicated.

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Intihar Klančar, Nataša. "Faulkner's Southern belle - myth or reality?" Acta Neophilologica 44, no. 1-2 (December 31, 2011): 47–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.44.1-2.47-57.

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The article deals with heroines of William Faulkner's novels Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury, The Unvanquished, The Town and his short story "A Rose for Emily". The Southern belle features as a recurring character in Faulkner's fiction, her fragility, modesty, weakness yet strength, beauty, sincerity, generous nature, status and her fall from innocence comprise her central characteristics. Confronted with various expectations of Southern society and with the hardships of war, the belle is faced with many obstacles and challenges. Faulkner's heroines face a wide array of problems that prevent them from being and/or remaining a Southern belle. Let us name a few: Lena's inappropriate social status, Joanna's wrong roots, Mrs. Hightower's inability to fulfill her duties as the minister's wife, Ellen's miserable marriage, Judith's sad love life, Rosa's feelings of inferiority and humiliation, Mrs. Compson's failure as a mother, Caddy's weak rebellion against male convention, Drusilla's male characteristics, Linda's unrequited love and Emily's dark secret, to name a few. Through these characters and their destinies Faulkner shows a decaying South whose position has changed considerably over the years. Can the Southern belle save it? Can she save herself?

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ALTINDIŞ, Hüseyin. "FAULKNERIAN TRAGEDIES AND UNPRODUCTIVE FRUSTRATIONS: LOVE AND DEATH IN WILLIAM FAULKNER S LIGHT IN AUGUST AND ABSALOM, ABSALOM." Journal of International Social Research 11, no. 59 (October 25, 2018): 24–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.17719/jisr.2018.2610.

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Ross, Stephen M. "Heart in Conflict: Faulkner's Struggles with Vocation, and: Faulkner and/or Writing: On "Absalom, Absalom!", and: Figures of Division: William Faulkner's Major Novels, and: Faulkner and Women: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1985 (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 33, no. 4 (1987): 677–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1215.

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Mohácsi, Eszter Enikő. "Houses and the Fate of Families : A Comparison of “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe and Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner." Freeside Europe Online Academic Journal, no. 11 (2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.51313/freeside-2020-2-7.

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In Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” the house where the events unfold is described as a sentient being, and its first description forebodes the occurrence of dark events. In addition, Poe utilizes the house of Usher to show how the fate of the house and its inhabitants are connected. The House of Usher stands for the building itself as well as the family, and Usher himself believes that the house is alive and can also exert its influence on the people living in it. The house of Thomas Sutpen in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! is equally significant and is used to symbolize Sutpen’s will to establish his dynasty. The house is furnished luxuriously to establish his reputation in society, and Sutpen finally succeeds in bringing home a wife to the completed house. However, after the war the house is in ruins and Sutpen is unable to defy his fate anymore: he cannot rebuild the house, which – several years later – is burnt down by his own daughter, the partly black Clytemnestra. This paper compares and contrasts the houses and their function in the two works.

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Kinney, Arthur F. "Vision and Revisions: Essays on Faulkner, and: The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner's Novels from The Sound and the Fury to Light in August, and: Sutpen's Design: Interpreting Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, and: William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Fiction, and: Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 37, no. 4 (1991): 743–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0722.

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Madigan, Patricia Alice. "A performance analysis of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487327695624074.

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Strawn, John R. "Dark house : William Faulkner and the making of Absalom, Absalom! /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9946302.

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Palomaki, Kurt R. "Myth, ritual, and taboo in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!" Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1992. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Worsley, Christopher Geoffrey. "The rhetoric of reaction : crisis and criticism in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!" Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56624.

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Absalom, Absalom! presents the voices of a series of characters who suffer crises when they discover the meaning in other characters' languages or voices to be different from their own. This difference creates an aporia (a radical doubt, a sense of loss of familiar meaning) which disrupts the listening individual's sense of his or her previously 'unified' self. I show that these characters in Faulkner's novel do not have unified voices; their narratives develop as repetitions of the crisis moment when another's voice influenced their way of relating to themselves through language.
I also show that the crisis of meaning that characters in the book experience is enacted on another level. A difficult book to read because of its many textual figures of doubt, Absalom may be said to generate a crisis of interpretation in its readers. This thesis offers a way of reading the text which explores the various potential meanings of these aporias in the novel's discursive surface, and so avoids the experience of crisis, of anxiety. This method of reading is based on the mode of reading exemplified by one of the text's own characters: Shreve McCannon, who is not discouraged by the fact that neither the narratives he hears nor the speculative, hypothetical narratives he produces in response make complete and coherent sense of everything.

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Lännström, Kristina. ""If I had been there I could not have seen it this plain" : Minnesforskning och William Faulkners Absalom, Absalom!" Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21489.

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In this essay I employ memory theories to examine Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner. How are the memories depicted and how do they function in the novel? What are the characters 'allowed' to remember? Scholars that have written about William Faulkners usage of memories and narrative time in his novels, often claim that they together represent and create a sense of determinism and/or fatalism. Even though I agreed with that opinion, regarding time and memory in a lot of Faulkners novels, I wondered if these features in the text might not represent/mean something more, beyond that. One scholar have expressed the view that William Faulkners characters resemble blind marionettes of Destiny. I instead claim that the characters themselves, via their individual memories and temporal relations, create an internal determinism, connected with cultural memory, norms and traditions. I try to examine both the individual memories, as depicted in the novel, and the novel in its entirety, using different memory theories and narratology.

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Alves, Márcia Lappe. "Experience/experimentation : Faulkner as a storyteller." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/26724.

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Esta dissertação focaliza dois textos do escritor William Faulkner, considerado pela crítica como um dos expoentes das experimentações modernistas. O primeiro a ser estudado aqui é A Rose for Emily, uma short story publicada em 1930; o segundo é Absalom, Absalom!, um romance de 1936. O objetivo é investigar se no trabalho de Faulkner pode ser encontrado um narrador por excelência, partindo do conceito apresentado por Walter Benjamin em seu estudo The storyteller: reflections on the works of Nikolai Leskov. Minha proposta é levantar a questão do fim da comunicabilidade da experiência do narrador para então sugerir que, ao contrário do que Benjamin afirma, a arte de narrar não chegou ao fim. Meu argumento é de que as narrativas de Faulkner evidenciam sua arte de narrar imbricada com seu uso de ponto de vista. A experiência e a experimentação de Faulkner enquanto escritor são investigadas neste trabalho, principalmente sua manipulação do uso de ponto de vista, e são analisadas à luz de conceitos desenvolvidos por Walter Benjamin, Wayne Booth, Gérard Genette, Mieke Bal, entre outros. Os resultados desta pesquisa destacam que o trabalho de Faulkner com ponto de vista pode ser considerado muito mais que um mero experimento modernista, pois sua experiência como escritor proveniente do Sul dos Estados Unidos tem impacto nessa experimentação. A memória individual e coletiva, a transmissão de experiência, o contar e o recontar de histórias dos narradores, são fatores importantes para a construção de significado nas narrativas estudadas. Além disso, ao discutir a significação de sua obra, tanto no aspecto formal quanto no aspecto relativo ao contexto geográfico e literário de seu tempo e lugar, espero contribuir com mais um olhar sobre as estratégias narrativas de Faulkner, escritor que, ainda hoje, fomenta investigação e produção acadêmica significativa, justamente por conseguir construir círculos narrativos que apresentam narradores por excelência.
This thesis brings into focus two texts by William Faulkner, a writer who has been praised as one of the exponents at modernist experimentations. The first one to be studied here is A Rose for Emily, a short story published in 1930; the second is Absalom, Absalom!, a novel from 1936. The objective is to investigate whether a genuine storyteller can be found in Faulkner‘s work, supported by the concept presented by Walter Benjamin in his essay The storyteller: reflections on the works of Nikolai Leskov. My aim is to raise the question of the end of communicability of experience in order to suggest that, contrary to what Benjamin affirms, the art of storytelling has not reached its end. My argument is that Faulkner‘s narratives evidence his storytelling art as being imbricated with his use of point of view. Faulkner‘s experience and experimentation as a writer are investigated here, principally his manipulation with the use of point of view, and they are analyzed in the light of the concepts developed by Walter Benjamin, Wayne Booth, Gérard Genette, Mieke Bal, and others. The results of this research highlight that Faulkner‘s work with point of view is to be considered much more than merely a modernist experimentation, because his experience as a writer from the South of the United States has impact on this experimentation. Individual and collective memory, transmission of experience, narrators telling and retelling stories, are important factors for the construction of meaning in the narratives studied here. Moreover, by discussing the meaningfulness of his work, whether in its formal aspect or in the aspect related to the geographic and literary context of its time and place, I expect to contribute with yet another look into the narrative strategies employed by Faulkner, a writer that, still today, fosters academic investigation and production, exactly for being able to construct telling circles that present genuine storytellers.

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Delgadillo, Manuel. "Traces of the Dark Sublime in William Faulkner's "The Bear," Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!" FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/990.

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore William Faulkner’s paradoxical modernist aesthetic. While his writings evince primal, earthy, and post-Civil War angst-ridden qualities, Faulkner’s narratives are also found to be hyper-postmodern. Using Jacques Derrida’s theories on the absent-present trace, I will show how certain micromoments in three of Faulkner’s texts showcase the “trace” forming a pathway to the inaccessible and unattainable sublime. I will use “trace” and general theories of the “sublime” as methodological tools to explore Faulkner’s narrative of pastoral loss, the cultural institutionalization of racial differences, as well as structures of mourning/melancholia that lead to the disruption of the pathway between trace and sublime. The imagery/narrative palpability, manifested through Faulkner’s pictorial imagination, brings Derridean theory to earth, yet meanwhile transcends any theoretical or conceptual methodology. The three micromoments will reveal ruptures (irreconcilable meanings) at work in the margins of these texts.

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Holmgren, Lindsay. "The journey within : empathy and ontology in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Ingmar Bergman's Persona." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33904.

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"The Journey Within" deals with how the receiver (reader/viewer) engages with the novel and the film. The thesis primarily focuses on Faulkner's novel, incorporating Persona largely as a means by which to illustrate the more carefully concealed reader-engagement strategies in Absalom, Absalom! Starting with a review of Faulkner criticism that opens itself up to this inquiry, the thesis leads into a detail study of the engagement strategies used to foster identification, alignment, sympathy, and empathy among receivers. Employing Umberto Eco's criticism involving "Model Readers" who "actualize" texts, as well as other reader and viewer response theory, I demonstrate that certain receivers experience a specific, heightened engagement with the work. This "Model" receiver restructures her ideologies to accord with what the work expects from her. Ultimately, this particular engagement leads to ontological participation in the work among its receivers. Martin Heidegger's phenomenological investigation, Being and Time, helps illustrate this ontological participation.

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MacDonnell, Katherine A. "How the Myth Was Made: Time, Myth, and Narrative in the Work of William Faulkner." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/471.

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It is all too easy to dismiss myth as belonging to the realm of the abstract and theoretical, too removed from reality to constitute anything pragmatic. And yet myth makes up the very fabric of society, informing the way history is understood and the way people and things are remembered. William Faulkner’s works approach myth with a healthy skepticism, only gradually coming to find value in a process that is often destructive; his works demand of their readers the same perceptive criticism. This thesis approaches myth through the lens of Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," Absalom, Absalom!, and "The Bear." Faulkner's texts ultimately ask readers to bear witness by thinking critically about the process of myth-making, not only in the realm of literature but in the world as a whole.

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Puxan, Oliva Marta. "Narrative Voice and Racial Stereotypes in the Modern Novel: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!" Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7454.

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Aquesta tesi vol demostrar que Joseph Conrad i William Faulkner, en les novel·les Lord Jim i Absalom, Absalom! respectivament, reflexionen sobre la credibilitat de la veu en la ficció i del discurs racial per mitjà de l'exploració tècnica de la veu narrativa i dels estereotips racials. Nascuda de les crisis històriques que giren al voltant de les relacions racials, patides al si de l'Imperi Britànic de finals del segle XIX i al Sud dels Estats Units durant la dècada de 1930, l'articulació d'aquests dos aspectes en les novel·les permet una representació de les qüestions racials que és innovadora i ambivalent. Certament, la interrogació de la credibilitat dels discursos, tan comú en la novel·la moderna, porta a la sofisticació tant de les estratègies narratives que exploren el problema de la fiabilitat en la ficció com de l'ús dels estereotips racials a dins de la narració, entesos, doncs, com a formes narratives. És justament en l'anàlisi de les correspondències entre els aspectes històrics i els aspectes formals on la tesi troba la manera complexa en què aquestes dues novel·les expressen les tensions racials pròpies dels contextos històrics que les engendren.
This dissertation intends to demonstrate that Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! explore the narrative strategy of narrative voice, on the one hand, and racial stereotypes, on the other, in order to reflect upon the credibility of voice in fiction as well as the trustworthiness of racial discourse. Emerging from the historical ideological crisis that involved race relations in the late nineteenth-century British Empire, and in the 1930s U.S. South, the blending of these two aspects allowed an alternative and ambivalent representation of racial issues in fiction. The interrogation of credibility, very common in the Modern novel, results in these novels in a sophistication of the strategies that address the problem of narrative reliability, and of the use of racial stereotypes for narrative purposes in other words, their conception as narrative forms. By paying attention to these two aspects, this thesis claims that it is in the analysis of their intertwining where we may find the expression of the historical tension born of complex race relations.

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Urgo, Joseph R. Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! : glossary and commentary. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

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Sutpen's design: Interpreting Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990.

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Johnson, Carol Siri. William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Piscataway, N.J: Research & Education Association, 1996.

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Ragan, David Paul. William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: A critical study. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1987.

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Absalom Absalom By William Faulkner. Salem Press, 2011.

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Reading Faulkner Absalom Absalom. University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

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1943-, Hobson Fred C., ed. William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: A casebook. Oxford, [U.K.]: New York, 2003.

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Langford, Gerald. Faulkner's Revision of Absalom, Absalom!: A Collation of the Manuscript and the Published Book. University of Texas Press, 2015.

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Lurie, Peter. Seeing in the Dark Houses. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199797318.003.0002.

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This chapter uses historicist criticism of William Faulkner to suggest a limit to even the best approaches to this deeply historical writer. Attending to what his novels cannot say—or—see about history and racial understanding, I draw on Maurice Blanchot’s philosophy of language to show the category error that scholars make when assuming that Faulkner’s texts yield the historical secret lodged in the imagined structures and complicated texts Absalom, Absalom! and Light and August, each of which bore the title “Dark House” in manuscript form. The chapter shows the more meaningful aporias and lacunae surrounding race and racial meaning in each novel and the U.S. south—problems attendant on language and the effort to name. It offers a model for historical knowledge drawn from Blanchot and from film theory of fascination, a spellbound, rapt sense of wonder before traumatic events, one that elements of Absalom evoke in readers and posits in Quentin Compson.

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Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth. William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315146430.

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Gebsattel, Jerôme von, and Henning Thies. "Faulkner, William: Absalom, Absalom!" In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–3. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_5271-1.

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Rowe, John Carlos. "Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystification in Absalom, Absalom!" In A Companion to William Faulkner, 445–58. Malden, MA, USA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996881.ch28.

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Gray, Richard. "Inside the Dark House: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! and Southern Gothic." In The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic, 21–40. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47774-3_3.

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Mitrović, Danijela. "The Myth of the Self-Created Man in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!" In Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS90 Proceedings. Volume 2, 201–12. Belgrade: Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch15.

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Puxan-Oliva, Marta. "Degrees of Reliability, Miscegenation, and the New South Creed in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!" In Narrative Reliability, Racial Conflicts and Ideology in the Modern Novel, 117–47. New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. | Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429030116-4.

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"Absalom, Absalom! (1936)." In William Faulkner, 139–66. Cambridge University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511519314.016.

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Porter, Carolyn. "Absalom, Absalom!" In The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner, 168–96. Cambridge University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521420636.009.

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West, Paul. "“Absalom, Absalom!”." In The Dixie Limited. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496803382.003.0044.

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This chapter talks about Absalom, Absalom!. It begins by saying that “William Faulkner's vicarious heroic would have taken him to reunions of the American pilots who formed the Eagle Squadron of the Royal Air Force...His true heroics, visible and audible on every page, depend on fecundity, on the constant chance of saying something original by way of oratory.” It argues that Absalom, Absalom! is a visionary novel, a model of the impenitently pensive work of art. In conclusion, it notes that there is one big thing about Faulkner: he reminds you that, “when the deep purple blooms, you are looking not at a posy but at a dimension”.

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Ziegler, Heide. "13. William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)." In Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, edited by Timo Müller. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110422429-015.

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Smith, Lee. "“Lee Smith Talks about Southern Writing”." In The Dixie Limited. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496803382.003.0043.

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This chapter presents an interview with Lee Smith, who shares her views on Southern writing and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! in particular. According to Lee, she read Absalom, Absalom! like some people read the Bible. She recalls that she first read Faulkner when she was in college, claiming that she was blown away by the language. She reveals that she was drawn to it because like anybody who is from the South and who would write about it, she was also alienated from it. Later, as she was trying to write, she was interested in the writing itself and in the technique. She adds that Faulkner wrote each one of his novels with a diffrent narrative strategy. Lee concludes by declaring that “Faulkner is rewarding to read at whatever point you are in life”.

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