Original scientific paper
Telling the Stream and Streaming the Tale (Narrative Juxtapositions and Fusions in Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!"
Sonja Bašić
Abstract
This paper is an attempt to vindicate William Faulkner's importance
as a modernist, much closer to James Joyce than is usually assumed. It starts from the assumption that. Faulkner's narratives - in the narrower sense of narrative mediation or transmission - can be arranged along a continuum spanning the poles of mimessis and diegesis. These two narrative modes are also, however, juxtaposed and fused within the narratives themselves. The author 'proceeds to analyse these complex juxtapositions and ifusions within "Absalom, Absalom!", comparing them to those found in The Sound and the
Fury and Ulysses. She concludes' that, "telling its stream and streaming its tale", Absalom appears dn every respect more complex and more original (Joyce-free) than the Sound and the Fury, presenting a unique o blend of narrative devices, which both entice and defy critical effor
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Hrčak ID:
121649
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Publication date:
26.12.1984.
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