“Decorous Ordering:” The Hierarchy of Social Narrative and the Individual in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! |
2016 |
1140 |
In the novel Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, the reader is met with a handful of narrators attempting to tell the legend of Thomas Sutpen, a Mississippi patriarch. The reader is led to interpret a barrage of “facts,” alongside the narrators, i... |