Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Fascicolo | 50 | 2016
Articolo | A Feeling you Cannot Name
Abstract
This essay is devoted to a thematic comparative analysis of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree. Focusing on the recurring watch motif, the aim is to show the evolvement of a pivotal issue in Southern US literature: the troubled relationship with (social) time and history. The comparison is triggered by some passages in which McCarthy clearly rewrites Faulkner’s novel. Quentin Compson, the narrator from the second section of The Sound and the Fury, is obsessed with the passing of time – a fixation which is embodied in the watch that his father gave him. Cornelius Suttree shares the same obsession about time and clocks, and, just like Quentin, he is also tormented by an ambiguous relationship with the Southern aristocratic society he is part of. The Sound and the Fury and Suttree are hence tied together in their critique of the social neuroses of the South through the depiction of a biased sense of time.
Presentato: 09 Aprile 2016 | Accettato: 05 Luglio 2016 | Pubblicato 30 Settembre 2016 | Lingua: it
Keywords Southern Gothic • Cormac McCarthy • Time • William Faulkner
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A Feeling you Cannot Name. Clocks and Time in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree |
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Petrelli Marco |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2016/1/a-feeling-you-cannot-name/ |
dc.description.abstract |
This essay is devoted to a thematic comparative analysis of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree. Focusing on the recurring watch motif, the aim is to show the evolvement of a pivotal issue in Southern US literature: the troubled relationship with (social) time and history. The comparison is triggered by some passages in which McCarthy clearly rewrites Faulkner’s novel. Quentin Compson, the narrator from the second section of The Sound and the Fury, is obsessed with the passing of time – a fixation which is embodied in the watch that his father gave him. Cornelius Suttree shares the same obsession about time and clocks, and, just like Quentin, he is also tormented by an ambiguous relationship with the Southern aristocratic society he is part of. The Sound and the Fury and Suttree are hence tied together in their critique of the social neuroses of the South through the depiction of a biased sense of time. |
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Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale |
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Vol. 50 | Settembre 2016 |
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2016-09-30 |
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2016-07-05 |
dc.dateSubmitted |
2016-04-09 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2499-1562 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.14277/2499-1562/AnnOc-50-16-23 |
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yes |
dc.subject |
Cormac McCarthy |
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Cormac McCarthy |
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Southern Gothic |
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Southern Gothic |
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Time |
dc.subject |
Time |
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William Faulkner |
dc.subject |
William Faulkner |
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