Outraged and amazed :: transgressing the South in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! /

Outraged and Amazed focuses on how Absalom, Absalom!'s complex narrative functions as a vehicle through which social order in the South is represented, challenged and renegotiated. Exploring Quentin Compson's attempt to understand his own identity through the complicated and incomplete sto...

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Main Author: Peckham, Joel, Jr. (Joel Bishop) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Outraged and Amazed focuses on how Absalom, Absalom!'s complex narrative functions as a vehicle through which social order in the South is represented, challenged and renegotiated. Exploring Quentin Compson's attempt to understand his own identity through the complicated and incomplete story of Thomas Sutpen, it demonstrates how the poetics, structure and central conflicts of the novel derive from a combination of its characters' intense resistance to their proscribed social limitations and their desire to wrest control of their identities through and from the act of storytelling. Intending to.
Physical Description:1 online resource (85 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781527526877
1527526879

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