While at first glance the differences between Southern Gothic literature and Russian Realism seem vast, Southern Gothic authors have often evoked the works and somber themes of Dostoevsky in both fictional and nonfiction writings. The dialogue between Southern Gothic writers and…
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In stark contrast to the city, rural spaces are often considered resistant to the novelistic impulse of narrative progress. Lives here are seemingly unchanged by time or human invention. The rural is often overlooked as an immobile reference point of beginning, way station or en…
Lacan, as a post-structuralist, combined Saussure’s linguistics with Freud’s psychology and linked Derrida’s notion of “the other” to his notion of “objet petit a” as the impossible object of the subject’s phallic desire, in order to re-think the modern consciousness of “the sel…
This dissertation examines the different ways in which Edouard Glissant, Kateb Yacine and William Faulkner combine landscape, history and identity in their work. The depiction of landscape in literature is not new, but the French Romantics in the 19th century, for instance, tend…
This study explores the remarkable existential affinities in the novels of William Faulkner, Albert Camus, and Naguib Mahfouz. At the heart of these affinities are the authors' converging world views, best understood through their representation of the central existential preocc…
Using the theories of Mikhail M. Bakhtin concerning the chronotope (the authorial use of space and time combined), this discussion seeks to apply those theories to the identification of mode in selected novels. Close reading and analysis of the subject texts—Heliodorus' Ethiopia…
The argument for a parallel in the social and material conditions under which both the Southern United States writer William Faulkner and post-colonial writers, particularly from Latin America and the Arab world, worked and wrote begins with the many influence studies, which obs…
I propose that William Faulkner's literary imagination is charged by a Jewish sensibility rooted in reverence for the Bible as a text that is as vital and relevant in his time as in any since its composition. The Hebrew Bible's narrative method of compiling, redacting, doubling,…
Over the past twelve years, Jesmyn Ward has published three novels, one memoir, one anthology, and a series of articles. After two National Book Awards, Ward has risen to the top ranks of contemporary literature, invited to universities and lecture series across the country. Thi…