scholarly journals La rhétorique de l’idiot

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-185
Author(s):  
Julie Ouellet
Keyword(s):  
William Faulkner ◽  
Anne Hebert ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
Fous De Bassan

Souvent aphasique ou possédant très peu de vocabulaire, le personnage de l'idiot n'est dans la plupart des romans que décrit. Toutefois, certains écrivains ont su lui donner la parole, et ce, dans une prose fortement poétique. Parmi eux se démarquent William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury), Anne Hébert (Les fous de Bassan) et Suzanne Jacob (Laura Laur) qui, à divers degrés dans leurs récits, ont donné à des personnages d'idiots les rênes de la narration. Tâche ardue puisqu'elle relève du paradoxe ; ces auteurs ont ainsi consacré une section entière de leur roman au " discours " d'un personnage caractérisé par son hermétisme. En s'intéressant au " projet commun " de ces trois auteurs, notre analyse vise à explorer les divers enjeux de l'éloquence du dépossédé.

The concept of the frame in philosophical terms – the role of time and memory in human existence

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 193-201
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Olewińska
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
First Century ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Time Frames

In The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner writes: “Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops, does time come to life.” The following words relate to the role of memory frames in human life. They also begin the analysis of the ideas of twentieth and twenty-first century philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Martin Heidegger, Paul Ricoeur and David Farrell Krell. Even though there is a strict reference to the Modernist thinkers, the author goes slightly deeper, reminding earlier concepts of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and Protagoras. The second part of the article has been devoted to the notions connected with time frames and memory such as experiencing of the passage of time, reminding, forgetting, forgiving as well as postmemory.

Time Lags And Differential Pace: Bullet Time, William Faulkner and Jessica Hagedorn

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-165
Author(s):  
Charles M. Tung
Keyword(s):  
William Faulkner ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Jessica Hagedorn ◽  
Us History ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
Temporal Aspect ◽  
The Way

This chapter begins with the way Wesely’s record-breaking pinhole photographs from Open Shutter (2004) use the effect of blur to connect relative rates of movement to larger histories as such. Similarly, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929) is focused on racialised time lag not simply between two points on a single historical line, but between different histories that move at different rates and go their own ways. Here, the temporal aspect of double consciousness – of always living in someone else’s time and yet also located in a distinctive history marked by laggy access – connects with postcolonial treatments of time lag and the way in which historical behindness opens onto the tangle of histories that appears synecdochically in the plane of the present as heterogeneity. Finally, Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle (2003) stages the collision, overlap and differences between the story of Magellan’s ‘discovery’ of the Philippines, the 1970s hoax of the uncontacted ‘Stone Age’ Tasaday people, the filming of contemporary US history in Apocalypse Now in Mindanao, and the long-running Moro insurgency. Each of these texts contains a bullet-time scene in which the dilation of the encounter of disjunctive rhythms reveals a heterochronic assemblage of time-paths and historical frames.

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-344
Author(s):  
Lorie Watkins
Keyword(s):  
William Faulkner ◽  
Sound And The Fury

The sound and the fury of Southern American literature

1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Ana Lúcia Almeida Gazolla
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Literature ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eudora Welty ◽  
Carson Mccullers ◽  
Robert Penn Warren ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
John Crowe Ransom

The South of the United States presents, in the twentieth century, a remarkable flowering in the area of Literature. It has produced, especially in the first half of the century, more good writers than any other region in the country. Writers of the stature of Thomas Wolfe, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Carson McCullers, to name just a few, together with William Faulkner, the greatest of all, have been responsible for a period of such creativity that it has come to be known as "the Southern Renaissance."

“William Faulkner”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Tate
Keyword(s):  
William Faulkner ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Light In August ◽  
The Public ◽  
As I Lay Dying ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
The Hamlet

This chapter is aimed as an obituary of William Faulkner. It describes Faulkner as an arrogant and ill-mannered individual in a way that is peculiarly “Southern”: in company he usually failed to reply when spoken to, or when he spoke there was something grandiose in the profusion with which he sprinkled his remarks with “Sirs” and “Ma'ms.” No matter how great a writer he may be, the public gets increasingly tired of Faulkner; his death seems to remove the obligation to read him. Nevertheless, the chapter regards Faulkner as the greatest American novelist after Henry James since the 1930s. It cites five masterpieces written by Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, and The Hamlet.

“William Faulkner: An Impression”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Crowe Ransom
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Ben Jonson ◽  
John Webster ◽  
Light In August ◽  
As I Lay Dying ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
John Crowe Ransom

In this chapter, John Crowe Ransom offers an impression of William Faulkner's achievement, an impression that he says has not changed much during the years that followed his reading of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August. According to Ransom, these three early novels are proof of the narrative power and the detailed poetry of Faulkner's creations. He argues that Faulkner's books are unequal, and that the style is less than consistently sustained. Faulkner is therefore not Ben Jonson, he is not even William Shakespeare; he is John Webster. The chapter concludes with the opinion that there are imperfections in Faulkner's work, but that his perfections are wonderful, well sustained, and without exact precedent anywhere.

Faulkner, William (1897–1962)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Gradisek
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Air Force ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Heart Attack ◽  
American South ◽  
Light In August ◽  
As I Lay Dying ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
The American South ◽  
American Authors

William Faulkner was one of the best-known American authors of the twentieth century. Experimenting with form, chronology, and language, Faulkner developed a strikingly personal style while exploring the complexities of life in the American South. He was especially interested in crafting stories that explored the effects of the Civil War’s destruction and the ways in which it revealed the breakdown of plantation-based aristocracy, the effects of the exaggerated chivalric code of the Old South, and the complex racism of a society once based on slavery. He is most famous for novels such as Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary, and As I Lay Dying. Many of his novels are set in fictional Yoknapatahpha County, a county of his own design that resembled his own birthplace, Lafayette County. A native of Oxford, Mississippi, Faulkner lived most of his life there; he also joined the Canadian Air Force during World War I and spent time in Hollywood later in his career writing screenplays. He struggled with alcoholism throughout his life, but eventually died from a heart attack following a fall from his horse.

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