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Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Maniar, Divya (creator); Weinstein, Arnold (thesis advisor); Szendy, Peter (reader); Brown University. Comparative Literature (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Modernism (Literature); Faulkner, William, 1897-1962; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941; Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989; Waves (Woolf, Virginia); To the lighthouse (Woolf, Virginia); Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner, William); Sound and the fury (Faulkner, William)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/qkz7-3z53

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Abstract:: This thesis places work by Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Samuel Becket side-by-side. This is done more specifically in relation to texts which exemplify progressions toward radical experiments with narrative structure. To that end, To the Lighthouse will be compared to The Waves, and The Sound and the Fury to Absalom, Absalom! Finally, Beckett’s trilogy will be brought in as a last challenge to conventional modes of signification and storytelling. Through these texts, this paper will argue that a truer representation of subjective experience is what these authors seek, each in their own way, to attend to using the emotive logic of their radical structures.
Notes:: Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021; Concentration: Comparative Literature

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Maniar, Divya, "Life-writing: Representing Consciousness Through Radical Forms in Woolf, Faulkner and Beckett" (2021). Comparative Literature Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/qkz7-3z53

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Life-writing: Representing Consciousness Through Radical Forms in Woolf, Faulkner and Beckett