Faulkner Absalom

Klewin, Julia: Sutpen's white women in W. Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" GRIN VERLAG; GRIN VERLAG, April 2008, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 363892999X
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Wuppertal, course: American Historical Novels, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom! is often proclaimed to be one of hisbest writings no matter how hard and difficult the first glance seems to be. After I had finished Faulkner's masterwork (Dimino 181), I decided at onceto choose it for my term paper.For me, the novel is not a difficult one: It is demanding and gives you, as a reader, the opportunity to activate all of your background information and ideas concerning a story about the South. Of course, it is not a kind of book you can 'look through' at one day on your vacation, but it is hugely eventful that you could read it again and again without loosing interest. The more often you spend some time with Absalom, Absalom!, the more you will find out about the plot's hints and ideas.This term paper concentrates on Thomas Sutpen's three white women, namely Rosa Coldfield, Ellen Coldfield Sutpen and Judith Sutpen. To be examined are their roles in the novel, their relationship to Sutpen and their femininity or gender respectively. The interpretation of Rosa will be the largest one, because she gives the reader as a narrator more information than the other females. After a short overview of Absalom, Absalom!, I begin every analysis of the single white female characters with a short introduction of their biography and status, before I describe more detailed aspects and facets of their functions in the story.Because the novel itself is full of useful passages that have to be interpreted and questioned, I have decided to limit the secondary literature for this term paper in order to stay close to the book as much as possible. My research in the internet did not turn out to be useful for this term paper. What perhaps might be true in Absalom, Absalom!One absolute important aspect which should be kept in mind during entire thenovel is the fact that nothing actually is a fact. When you think you are done withFaulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, you suddenly realize that every detail of the plothas to be questioned and rethought.In Absalom, Absalom!, the reader comes across three or rather fournarrators:Starting with Rosa Coldfield, Faulkner introduces furthermore Mr. Compson whopasses over his father's stories about his friend Thomas Sutpen inYoknapatawpha County and the roommates at the Harvard dormitory, QuentinCompson and Shrevlin McCannon.As it would not be enough, two totally differentsettings move the detailed hints about the plot even more apart from each other.

NEUBUCH! 2008. 24 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 2 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V86110

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Baker, Nehama: Faulkner s Text as a Work of Mourning Elements of Elegy in Faulkner s As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!, and Requiem for a Nun, VDM VERLAG DR. MÜLLER, , Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3639147235

NEUBUCH! 2009. 288 S.

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Gertz, Manuela: Poetic Justice in William Faulkner's "Absalom Absalom" GRIN VERLAG, Juli 2010, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640661168
In his novel Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner recounts the story of Thomas Sutpen, a pioneer who tries to establish his family dynasty in the Southern aristocratic plantation society in Mississippi. Thomas Sutpen rigorously pursues his design at all costs, not considering the possible consequences. This moral flaw in his character causes the downfall of his dynasty and the destruction of the whole family. At the end of the novel Sutpen's Hundred, the decaying mansion Sutpen built to accomplish his design, is burned down, together with the last descendants of the family.This tragic development of the story provokes the idea of poetic justice, where virtue is rewarded and vice is punished. But can such a sharp categorization really be applied on this complex novel In the following paper I will show whether the term poetic justice can be applied on Absalom, Absalom!. I will take a look at the elements which might support this assumption by considering the characters' development and function in the novel in order to show if they support the idea of punishment or reward.However, first of all I will take a closer look at the term poetic justice in general. I will give a definition, view its origins and examine its use in historical and recent context before applying it on Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom!.

NEUBUCH! 2010. 40 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 3 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V153908

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Powys, John Cowper: Porius. A Romance of the Dark Ages. Roman. Hamilton: Colgate University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780912568164
As new / Neuwertig, Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Aus Wikipedia: John Cowper Powys (1872 -1963) war ein walisischer Dichter und Schriftsteller. Er verfasste Lyrik, Essays, umfangreiche Romane sowie philosophische Schriften. Powys' Hauptwerke Glastonbury Romance und Porius gehören zu den monumentalen Werken der Moderne und stehen in einer Reihe mit dem Ulysses von James Joyce, Robert Musils Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften oder Marcel Prousts Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit. - "Porius stood upon the low square tower above the Southern Gate of Mynydd-y-Gaer, and looked down on the wide stretching valley below." So begins one of the most unique novels of twentieth-century literature, by one of its most "extraordinary, neglected geniuses," said Robertson Davies of John Cowper Powys. Powys thought Porius his masterpiece, but because of the paper shortage after World War II and the novel's lengthiness, he could not find a publisher for it. Only after he cut one-third from it was it accepted. This new edition not only brings Porius back into print, but makes the original book at last available to readers. Set in the geographic confines of Powys's own homeland of Northern Wales, Porius takes place in the course of a mere eight October days in 499 A.D., when King Arthur-a key character in the novel, along with Myrddin Wyllt, or Merlin-was attempting to persuade the people of Britian to repel the barbaric Saxon invaders. Porius, the only child of Prince Einion of Edeyrnion, is the main character who is sent on a journey that is both historical melodrama and satirical allegory. A complex novel, Porius is a mixture of mystery and philosophy on a huge narrative scale, as if Nabokov or Pynchon tried to compress Dostoevsky into a Ulyssean mold. Writing in The New Yorker, George Steiner has said of the abridged Porius that it "combines [a] Shakespearean-epic sweep of historicity with a Jamesian finesse of psychological detail and acuity. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, which I believe to be the American masterpiece after Melville, is a smaller thing by comparison." This new, and first complete, edition of the novel substantiates both Steiner's judgement and Powys's claim for Porius as his masterpiece. (Klappentext). ISBN 9780912568164 - , ISBN: 091256816X

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