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      Fiction begot Fiction: An exploration of trauma in William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury

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      Date
      2012-09-21
      Author
      Walling, Terriann
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      “Fiction begot Fiction,” is a psychobiographical study of William Faulkner, which draws primarily on The Sound and the Fury for its evidence. It is not, strictly speaking, a study of Faulkner’s novel, since the questions it seeks to answer are biographical ones concerning Faulkner’s motivations for writing the novel, and the reasons for its famously elliptical style. Nor is it a conventional literary critical essay, even in the psychobiographical mode, since it relies heavily on red herrings, suspense, and a deus ex machina resolution. It is therefore most aptly considered as a specimen of creative non-fiction for which psychobiographical literary criticism provides the foundation. The project offers a defense of conjectural readings of characters’ fictive past traumas, drawn from the work of Esther Rashkin. The author offers her own justification for extending Rashkin’s character-focused approach to the uncovering of an authorial trauma that isfigured elliptically in the traumatic and post-traumatic struggles of the novel’s fictional characters. The project provides a provocative “riff” on psychobiographical criticism.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      English
      Supervisor
      Clark, Hilary
      Copyright Date
      October 2012
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2012-10-592
      Subject
      William Faulkner
      Trauma
      Sound and the Fury
      Trauma Theory
      Esther Rashkin
      Nicolas Abraham
      Cathy Caruth
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