Coda: Literary History as Miscegenating Sound: The Sound and the Fury
The ideal name would resemble water.Denise RileyIn interviews, Faulkner credited the fantasied image of Caddy Compson climbing up a pear tree as the origin of The Sound and the Fury (1929). Caddy was his “heart’s darling.” Faulkner avows this image and elevates it in memory and autobiographical disc...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The ideal name would resemble water.Denise RileyIn interviews, Faulkner credited the fantasied image of Caddy Compson climbing up a pear tree as the origin of The Sound and the Fury (1929). Caddy was his “heart’s darling.” Faulkner avows this image and elevates it in memory and autobiographical discourse. Yet the title of the novel directs us to its neglected beginnings in “sound and fury,” an echo of James Wait’s sonorous “despair and fury.”... |
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| DOI: | 10.5422/fordham/9780823288175.003.0005 |