William Faulkner의 "The Sound and the Fury"에 대한 考察 = A Study on William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

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William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury may be justly called an immortal pyramid in modern literature of the West. Faulkner created an imaginary world that is complete in itself. For while Faulkner commands the past of his Yoknapatawpha County as a fund of legend, memory, and pain, what he can summon of it in a given book tends to be partial and fragmented.
The world of Yoknapatwapha, though of great fascination simply as a spectale of rama and event, is also the setting for a complex moral chronicle in which a popular myth and an almost legendary past yield something quite rare in American literature: a deep sense of the burdens and grandeur of history. In America this kind of literary enterprise is seldom undertaken and still less frequently compelted. Faulkner's Yoknapatwapha County, 2400 square miles in area, bounded by the Talahatchie and Yoknapatwpapha rivers, and comprising mainly farm lands and pine hills.
One of Faulkner's great subjects, human rootlessness in the modern world, is a subject made possible by the rootedness of his own life in the one part of the country which, at least until recently, could still be called a region.
To penetrate Faulkner's work it is necessary first to look at the self-contained world of Yoknapatwapha, a world with its own social relations and moral qualities. To see this world is to come upon an important difference between Faulkner's books and the traditional social novel.
Faulkner did not see the massive and benumbing violence of trench warfare, nor did he even see the human price exacted for the aristocratic individualism of the air. So some dreams remained intact. And some deep personal bias toward violence, some admiration of the crazy personal gesture, and an idealized version of the South's old war, could persist untarnished and uncriticized by grisly actuality.
The aim of the thesis is to explain the various techniques of Faulkner's major novel- The Sound and the Fury - and to show how these techniques are achieved in the work.