Event Title
“Trying to Say”: Memory, Overheard Mothers, and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
Location
Science Center, A254
Document Type
Presentation
Start Date
4-27-2012 4:00 PM
End Date
4-27-2012 5:00 PM
Abstract
William Faulkner is hailed as a major figure of American modernist writing, and The Sound and the Fury is considered his most experimental work. Through a careful reading of the maternal figures in a novel narrated entirely by male voices, I explore Faulkner’s attempt to locate the emerging “structure of feeling” of the modern era. His struggle to comprehend characters removed from his own gender and racial position necessitates the creation of a rhetorical method that departs from tradition.
Recommended Citation
Kaplan, Arielle, "“Trying to Say”: Memory, Overheard Mothers, and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury" (04/27/12). Senior Symposium. 27.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/seniorsymp/2012/presentations/27
Major
English
Advisor(s)
William Patrick Day, English
Project Mentor(s)
William Patrick Day, English
April 2012
“Trying to Say”: Memory, Overheard Mothers, and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
Science Center, A254
William Faulkner is hailed as a major figure of American modernist writing, and The Sound and the Fury is considered his most experimental work. Through a careful reading of the maternal figures in a novel narrated entirely by male voices, I explore Faulkner’s attempt to locate the emerging “structure of feeling” of the modern era. His struggle to comprehend characters removed from his own gender and racial position necessitates the creation of a rhetorical method that departs from tradition.
Notes
Session III, Panel 3: Historical Frequencies of Gender, Literature, and Subjectivity
Moderator: Sandra Zagarell, Professor of English