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Between demythologization and transcendence: Faulkner’s poetics of historical trauma
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This paper offers a critical analysis of William Faulkner’s status as
an unconventional novelist, examining how short prose decisively
contributes to the construction of his mythopoetic universe. Building
on Malcolm Cowley’s observation that Faulkner does not write
traditional novels but fragments of a discontinuous macrotext, this
study argues that narrative fragmentation—expressed through the
rejection of linearity, the plurality of voices, and temporal
distortion—constitutes the authentic mode of his literary
modernism, as evidenced in ‘‘The Bear’’ and ‘‘That Evening Sun’’.
The analysis focuses on the ways in which these short stories,
though formally autonomous, are later organically integrated into
major novels, revealing a circular compositional strategy and
Faulkner’s sustained engagement with memory and historical
consciousness. Yoknapatawpha County is approached as a
symbolic, mythical space where memory, trauma, and history
intersect within a nonlinear, stratified temporality, linking personal
experience to collective inheritance.
In contrast to Hemingway’s stylistic economy, Faulkner’s discourse
is marked by density, ambiguity, and cumulative meaning,
embodying two opposing paradigms of representing reality. In
Faulkner’s vision, myth no longer guarantees ontological stability but
becomes fluid and contested, shaped by modernity’s identity crisis,
as his narratives negotiate historical trauma and its ethical
implications. From this perspective, the paper reassesses Faulkner’s
influence on narrative postmodernism and reconsiders short prose
as the generative nucleus of a tense, original literary mythology.
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Faulkner Modernism Short prose Literary myth Yoknapatawpha . Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades
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Universidade da Madeira. Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades (FAH)