AN INTRODUCTION TO THE AUTHOR AND THE ESSAY:
"William Faulkner (1897-1962), who came from an old southern family, grew
up in Oxford, Mississippi. He joined the Canadian, and later the British,
Royal Air Force during the First World War, studied for a while at the
University of Mississippi, and temporarily worked for a New York bookstore
and a New Orleans newspaper. Except for some trips to Europe and Asia, and
a few brief stays in Hollywood as a scriptwriter, he worked on his novels
and short stories on a farm in Oxford. In an attempt to create a saga of
his own, Faulkner has invented a host of characters typical of the
historical growth and subsequent decadence of the South. The human drama in
Faulkner's novels is then built on the model of the actual, historical
drama extending over almost a century and a half each story and each novel
contributes to the construction of a whole, which is the imaginary
Yoknapatawpha County and its inhabitants."
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html
The paper will take a close look at a short essay on William Faulkner's
'Absalom, Absalom.'The idea is to explore a particular question of national
and/or regional identification (specifically the South), by answering, or
investigating the following questions, The paper will discover William's
essay in order to answer the questions related to Absalom Absalom.These
What about the gender roles in "Absalom, Absalom" bring to light the
The reading and analysis of the essay shows that the author has emphasized
on paternity and sons, this book deals with gender very explicitly. And the
author has shown that how the women are neglected and dominated by men in
societies where male are the heads of the family. William decided the tile
of this essay as "Dark house" but l
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