Time and memory in Faulkner: a critique of modern identity
The present text—titled “Time and Memory in Faulkner: A Critique of Modern Identity” in English, and “Tiempo y memoria en Faulkner: Crítica de la identidad moderna” in Spanish—explores the manifestation of consciousness and identity in a sample of Modernist works by William Faulkner. These texts—The...
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| Formato: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/5398 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/5398 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | 821.111(73)Faulkner, William1.09(043.2) William Faulkner Literatura 5701.07 Lengua y Literatura |
| Resumo: | The present text—titled “Time and Memory in Faulkner: A Critique of Modern Identity” in English, and “Tiempo y memoria en Faulkner: Crítica de la identidad moderna” in Spanish—explores the manifestation of consciousness and identity in a sample of Modernist works by William Faulkner. These texts—The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses—are eminently preoccupied with the notion of consciousness and th emultiple ways in which it can be arrested and exhibited in literature.In order to arrest the consciousness of the individual throughout words, the Modernist corpus of texts makes use of a varied set of mechanisms which highly interests the present study. The different manifestations of language, together with the persistent temporal digressions that shape these novels, are taken into account as the foundation from which memory arises in the literary medium. However, to analyse these terms and its joining, this study must first establish a philosophical framework regarding the notions of time, temporality, space, and consciousness... |
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