dc.contributor.advisor	Clark, Hilary	en_US
dc.creator	Walling, Terriann	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-03T22:33:42Z
dc.date.available	2013-01-03T22:33:42Z
dc.date.created	2012-10	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-09-21	en_US
dc.date.submitted	October 2012	en_US
dc.description.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.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2012-10-592	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.subject	William Faulkner	en_US
dc.subject	Trauma	en_US
dc.subject	Sound and the Fury	en_US
dc.subject	Trauma Theory	en_US
dc.subject	Esther Rashkin	en_US
dc.subject	Nicolas Abraham	en_US
dc.subject	Cathy Caruth	en_US
dc.title	Fiction begot Fiction: An exploration of trauma in William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury	en_US
dc.type.genre	Thesis	en_US
dc.type.material	text	en_US
thesis.degree.department	English	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	English	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Saskatchewan	en_US
thesis.degree.level	Masters	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Master of Arts (M.A.)	en_US

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