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The Ladies And The Women, Caroline V. Jauch
The Ladies And The Women, Caroline V. Jauch
Masters Theses
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THE LADIES AND THE WOMEN
An Exploration into Faulkner’s Rhetoric of Female Hood
Caroline V. Jauch, B.A in French and English languages and literatures, Université de Genève, Switzerland
With his novels, Faulkner takes us on a journey to the South. He invites us into his character’s surroundings, homes, landscape, smells and especially into their hearts and minds. His portrayals of the white and black people that populate the South, his acute sense of observation regarding their external and internal dialogue, as well as his unique narrative style, all contribute to making him into a reliable witness of …
A National Style: A Critical Historiography Of The Irish Short Story, Andrew Fox
A National Style: A Critical Historiography Of The Irish Short Story, Andrew Fox
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines the artistic, historical and theoretical concerns that, for the past century, have shaped the Irish short story, the Irish nation and the body of criticism that mediates between the two. In Ireland, I argue, the prevailing critical narrative of the short story’s emergence and ongoing literary purpose has been bound up with the political narrative of the nation state’s decolonization. This process I view as symptomatic of a broader critical tendency to view Irish cultural narratives as inextricable from national ones, whereby literary interventions either are viewed as mere reflections of, or are assimilated to systems of …