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“Fathomless, Symbolic, and Threatening”: Capital and Identity in Motion in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Styron’s Set This House on Fire

Finley, Aaron Solomon
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302536383

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2011, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
This paper discusses the transformation in the possibility of maintaining a regional, Southern identity from The Sound and the Fury to Set This House on Fire. It is an analysis that arises from characters’ interaction with the spread of industrial capitalism into the American South and beyond. The argument suggests that an inherent contradiction makes up the foundation of a Southern identity; and that the globalization of industrial capitalism exposes that contradiction, leaving Southerners without an ability to identify as the Agrarian manifesto I’ll Take My Stand suggests. The concluding chapter explores this shift as emblematic of the transformation from modernism to postmodernism, exploring also the concept of the “postsouthern” novel.
Kevin Floyd (Advisor)
Tammy Clewell (Committee Member)
Robert Trogdon (Committee Member)
102 p.
Literature
William Faulkner; The Sound and the Fury; William Styron; Set This House on Fire; postsouthern; regional identity; Southern identity

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  • Finley, A. S. (2011). “Fathomless, Symbolic, and Threatening”: Capital and Identity in Motion in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Styron’s Set This House on Fire [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302536383

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Finley, Aaron. “Fathomless, Symbolic, and Threatening”: Capital and Identity in Motion in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Styron’s Set This House on Fire. 2011. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302536383.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Finley, Aaron. "“Fathomless, Symbolic, and Threatening”: Capital and Identity in Motion in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Styron’s Set This House on Fire." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302536383

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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