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By Joseph R. Urgo, Noel Polk

Absalom, Absalom! has lengthy been considered as one in all William Faulkner's such a lot tough, dense, and multilayered novels. it really is, on one point, the tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who got here to Jefferson within the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi desolate tract. He used to be a guy, Faulkner acknowledged, "who sought after sons and the sons destroyed him." On one other point, the e-book narrates the tragedy that befalls the total Sutpen relatives and that tragedy's legacy that keeps good into the 20 th century and past. The novel's complex, hard prose sort, and its haunting dramatization of the South's complex, difficult heritage make it a masterpiece of twentieth-century American literature.Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! deals an in depth exam and interpretation of the radical. the following tough phrases and cultural phrases that will end up to be an issue for normal readers are defined and keyed to web page numbers within the definitive Faulkner textual content (Library of the USA and classic editions). The authors position Faulkner's novel in its historic context, whereas additionally connecting it to his different works.

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50:1 Clytemnestra unfaithful wife of unfaithful King Agamemnon; she slew him, for sacrificing their daughter Iphegenia, when he returned from the Trojan wars. 50:24 ironic fecundity of dragon’s teeth Sown by Cadmus, the dragon’s teeth became armed warriors where they hit the ground. Mr. Compson claims irony in Sutpen’s sowing because two of his progeny are women, though the third, Henry, is a male who becomes an armed soldier in the Civil War. 50:24 which with the two exceptions were girls Sutpen has named Clytie and Henry and Judith, but Mr.

37:13 schottische a lively dance like a Highland Fling (OED). 39:6 faience appearance Italian pottery, from Faenza, having a glazed appearance, like porcelain. 39:34 It was the wedding which caused the tears: not marrying Sutpen • 22 • VI 39:10 / 41:28 Perhaps. But it’s also possible that Ellen’s upbringing in the Coldfield house has created in her a fear of marriage, and sexuality, that like Rosa’s gives her plenty of reason to fear a union with anybody, much less Sutpen. It’s also possible that she simply resents being bartered by her father to Sutpen in exchange for Sutpen’s silence about whatever nefarious deals they have worked together (see entries for 41:11, 41:18, 47:30 and 146:24, and Gwin 74).

42:21 two of the citizens General Compson and Mr. Coldfield. 42:39 Or maybe women are even less complex than that and to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint. Mr. Compson finishes his analysis of the developing wedding plans with a bad joke, which, typically for him, is misogynistic. 43:3 So the aunt even used Ellen’s tears that is, used Ellen’s tears to get Sutpen to agree to the wedding, seeing the wedding as her “one chance to thrust him back into the gullet of public opinion .

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