Submerged stories: the evolution of William Faulkner's snopes trilogy

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dc.contributor.advisorJenkins, Leeen
dc.contributor.authorO'Callaghan, Eoin Martin
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.contributor.funderUniversity College Corken
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-23T12:22:11Z
dc.date.issued2019
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dc.description.abstractWhile few twentieth-century writers have attracted as much critical attention as William Faulkner, there remain aspects of his work that have been neglected: his ‘Snopes’ stories of the 1920s and 1930s, and his Snopes Trilogy, written in the 1940s and 1950s, have been particularly ill-served by critics. This thesis examines the evolution of The Hamlet (1940), The Town (1957), and The Mansion (1959), collectively known as the Snopes Trilogy, and into which Faulkner incorporated elements of those earliest stories, including “Spotted Horses” (1931) and “Lizards in Jamshyd’s Courtyard” (1932). The composition of these novels is, this thesis argues, shaped and defined by a triangular relationship between place, race (specifically, whiteness) and genre, and analysis of this thirty-year-long process may be used to trace Faulkner’s evolving conception of Yoknapatawpha County and the ‘poor white’ Snopes family. The methodology for this thesis utilises close textual study, archival research, and theories of place, whiteness, and genre in order to re-evaluate the Snopes fiction, arguing for the significance of the trilogy within the Faulkner canon.en
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dc.identifier.citationO'Callaghan, E. M. 2019. Submerged stories: the evolution of William Faulkner's snopes trilogy. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.endpage240en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7789
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dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.relation.projectIrish Research Council (Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship); University College Cork (Strategic Research Fund)en
dc.rights© 2019, Eoin Martin O'Callaghan.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.subjectWilliam Faulkneren
dc.subjectThe Southen
dc.subjectAmerican literatureen
dc.subjectShort storiesen
dc.subjectSnopes trilogyen
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dc.titleSubmerged stories: the evolution of William Faulkner's snopes trilogyen
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen
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