Class of Nov 1, 2004 LBCL490
Class of Nov 1, 2004
LBCL490
William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying"
Darl: mentally ill
Jewel: son of adultery (Addie & Withfield)
Intense relationship with his horse
"eyes full of the land": looks like he's away, detached
narration: hard to figure what's the relationship between people
monologue gets broken at times: people says things they could not have possibly known at times
description of the house sounds like how the book is (p.20 approx)
thumbprint on whole family, what makes a single individual what makes you in relations with others
outsider voices, reprensent them as incoherent
American and race, post-salvery, pre-civil rights, down south
chabging llandscape in changing south, rural to more urbanized: road-building
what a road gonna do, connect people to cities, less attached to land, turn into a more urbanized mentality
failing of a type of society, prosperity gone (with slavery, civil war) huberistic blow
civil war: a "culture" felt being lost, a sort of autonomy
road = taxes
about when america was a less settled place
America not ONE place, when america was a lot of places
In some ways still a bit of two countries
Faulkner: agrarian society marked by extreme poverty
started to right at start of black tuesday, economic crash
gentlemanly, neighbourly... loss forces of beliefs
Black no longer slaves, but not full citizens,
women constrained in many ways
sense of fertility inflicted on women, horrible thing ruining life
families destroy each other
a book about mother being bad because obliged to be mother, destructive experience
coming apart, loosing your identity
genre of tragedy
genre of epic... a "voyage" a "mission"... get new wife and new teeths... goes to town.
age of characters... age gap between cash, darl and other siblings....
Addie:
Cash first born.... then darl... then has an affair and get Jewel... rebellion boils away... then have one to make back for affair.... and a last one again....
the two she recognises as hers are cash and jewel...
journey home to town of jefferson, but no longer really her home, act of denial of her life as an adult to be burried in Jefferson
white gown of burial, returning her as "virginal", denial
Dewey Dell: a girl, skepticim about words
motherhood romanticized, "fulfilling woman"....
Addie: she sort of understandable when she says that motherhood violated her solitude, your not one person anymore in some ways.
strenuousness of having baby in rural environment, lack of commodities, few methods of birth control: huge tole upon body.
title of book from Agammemnon in Odyssey
descendent of Hell
flood and fire experimented by family
Agamm will come back victorious only to be killed by adultrous wife: he decides not to close eyes.
proper ritual of death, honour.
indignity and death, (being called a horse, a fish), logged around, that roths. material body that is subject to indignity and shame of being carried around.
like in greek tragedy "journey is cursed"
her request to g baack to jefferson
for widowed husband: a pretext to go get new wife and new teeths.
community is oppressive, misrepresenting and passing judgement upon each other
having a community doesn't mean people are unified and feel obliged to each others
watching and being watched
Faulkner dies 1962
publishes As I Lay Dying 1930
tries himself as a scriptwriter in hollywood
Self-myth-maker, uneducated, drop out, (actually univerity student) war hero (in fact enrolled when war is over).
Persona of writer very masculine, macho... unlike others...
noble prize: minimizes the art to aggrandize itself, makes it all the more extraordinary what he does.
claims not to have read Joyce and Mann, but influence is striking
"writting is stealing everything you can" from others
"instrument of voices that I hear" and they are right
Darl closest you get to ideal omniscient voices.... goes mad... other voices have the final word... prevalent voice but non necessarily priviledge voice.
Darl: people have to pick up his slack, petty caracters
Cash: evocation of Jesus, carpenter... cash almost what we get closest to someone good... not a "methaphorical" Jesus.... "good, simple carpenter"... legitimate son of a "god": mother
Addie also a Jesus figure.... carry her cross...
Jewel carries her out of river, barn...
Start: Darl outside of himself, alienating himself, pictures himself as a viewer would see the scene.
Darl can't see what he's describing: what Jewel's like in the cottonhouse.
ghostmarks of path.
descrtion of Jewel: 2-dimensional, freeze, flat-sculpture, not a very filled out caracters "cigar store indian" a cliché, a representation of americana... "heroic" ideal of the enemy... does heroic things (drags coffin out of river...)
dewey dell, skeptical
cora voice of convention
Theme of trap of passivity, people that feel incapable of changing there circumstances... people stuck.
epic mode of honour: make pledge and hold it
sacrifice: selling his horse
Job refferences, but with actual bad man actually suffering stuff, and retribution kinda ... you know... get new wife, bananas, gramophone, an asylum, jewel leaves....
LBCL490
William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying"
Darl: mentally ill
Jewel: son of adultery (Addie & Withfield)
Intense relationship with his horse
"eyes full of the land": looks like he's away, detached
narration: hard to figure what's the relationship between people
monologue gets broken at times: people says things they could not have possibly known at times
description of the house sounds like how the book is (p.20 approx)
thumbprint on whole family, what makes a single individual what makes you in relations with others
outsider voices, reprensent them as incoherent
American and race, post-salvery, pre-civil rights, down south
chabging llandscape in changing south, rural to more urbanized: road-building
what a road gonna do, connect people to cities, less attached to land, turn into a more urbanized mentality
failing of a type of society, prosperity gone (with slavery, civil war) huberistic blow
civil war: a "culture" felt being lost, a sort of autonomy
road = taxes
about when america was a less settled place
America not ONE place, when america was a lot of places
In some ways still a bit of two countries
Faulkner: agrarian society marked by extreme poverty
started to right at start of black tuesday, economic crash
gentlemanly, neighbourly... loss forces of beliefs
Black no longer slaves, but not full citizens,
women constrained in many ways
sense of fertility inflicted on women, horrible thing ruining life
families destroy each other
a book about mother being bad because obliged to be mother, destructive experience
coming apart, loosing your identity
genre of tragedy
genre of epic... a "voyage" a "mission"... get new wife and new teeths... goes to town.
age of characters... age gap between cash, darl and other siblings....
Addie:
Cash first born.... then darl... then has an affair and get Jewel... rebellion boils away... then have one to make back for affair.... and a last one again....
the two she recognises as hers are cash and jewel...
journey home to town of jefferson, but no longer really her home, act of denial of her life as an adult to be burried in Jefferson
white gown of burial, returning her as "virginal", denial
Dewey Dell: a girl, skepticim about words
motherhood romanticized, "fulfilling woman"....
Addie: she sort of understandable when she says that motherhood violated her solitude, your not one person anymore in some ways.
strenuousness of having baby in rural environment, lack of commodities, few methods of birth control: huge tole upon body.
title of book from Agammemnon in Odyssey
descendent of Hell
flood and fire experimented by family
Agamm will come back victorious only to be killed by adultrous wife: he decides not to close eyes.
proper ritual of death, honour.
indignity and death, (being called a horse, a fish), logged around, that roths. material body that is subject to indignity and shame of being carried around.
like in greek tragedy "journey is cursed"
her request to g baack to jefferson
for widowed husband: a pretext to go get new wife and new teeths.
community is oppressive, misrepresenting and passing judgement upon each other
having a community doesn't mean people are unified and feel obliged to each others
watching and being watched
Faulkner dies 1962
publishes As I Lay Dying 1930
tries himself as a scriptwriter in hollywood
Self-myth-maker, uneducated, drop out, (actually univerity student) war hero (in fact enrolled when war is over).
Persona of writer very masculine, macho... unlike others...
noble prize: minimizes the art to aggrandize itself, makes it all the more extraordinary what he does.
claims not to have read Joyce and Mann, but influence is striking
"writting is stealing everything you can" from others
"instrument of voices that I hear" and they are right
Darl closest you get to ideal omniscient voices.... goes mad... other voices have the final word... prevalent voice but non necessarily priviledge voice.
Darl: people have to pick up his slack, petty caracters
Cash: evocation of Jesus, carpenter... cash almost what we get closest to someone good... not a "methaphorical" Jesus.... "good, simple carpenter"... legitimate son of a "god": mother
Addie also a Jesus figure.... carry her cross...
Jewel carries her out of river, barn...
Start: Darl outside of himself, alienating himself, pictures himself as a viewer would see the scene.
Darl can't see what he's describing: what Jewel's like in the cottonhouse.
ghostmarks of path.
descrtion of Jewel: 2-dimensional, freeze, flat-sculpture, not a very filled out caracters "cigar store indian" a cliché, a representation of americana... "heroic" ideal of the enemy... does heroic things (drags coffin out of river...)
dewey dell, skeptical
cora voice of convention
Theme of trap of passivity, people that feel incapable of changing there circumstances... people stuck.
epic mode of honour: make pledge and hold it
sacrifice: selling his horse
Job refferences, but with actual bad man actually suffering stuff, and retribution kinda ... you know... get new wife, bananas, gramophone, an asylum, jewel leaves....
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