Faculty Mentor
Wendy Whelan-Stewart
Location
Library 3D
Session
Session 4
Start Date
13-4-2013 9:30 AM
End Date
13-4-2013 10:30 AM
Description
By his experimentalism in Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner manipulates language and perspective to design a narrative that, in its stylistic development, assumes a pattern of construction and deconstruction that operates intimately with the theme of decay at work in the novels plot. This project traces the element of architecture that can thus be applied to both the house of Thomas Sutpena corrupt, rotting structure metonymically representing the general collapse of the South following the Civil Warand to the stratification of perspectives by which the story and the concept of reality are created and recreated throughout the work.
The Architecture of William Faulkner’s "Absalom, Absalom!": A Study on the Decay of the Sutpen Household and the Novel’s Narrative Structure
Library 3D
By his experimentalism in Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner manipulates language and perspective to design a narrative that, in its stylistic development, assumes a pattern of construction and deconstruction that operates intimately with the theme of decay at work in the novels plot. This project traces the element of architecture that can thus be applied to both the house of Thomas Sutpena corrupt, rotting structure metonymically representing the general collapse of the South following the Civil Warand to the stratification of perspectives by which the story and the concept of reality are created and recreated throughout the work.