As I Lay Dying in the Machine Age
John Matthews (Boston University)
translated by Filip Cieślak (University of Gdansk)
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The following essay provides an analysis of the dialectical relationship between the aesthetic form of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and its „sedimented” social context. With its highly modernist and avant-garde qualities, As I Lay Dying stands out as one of Faulkner’s aesthetically most ambitious works. However, the author proposes, relying chiefl y on Adorno’s conceptual framework, a multifarious reappraisal in which the unconventional formal layer of Faulkner’s work manages to dialectically establish a textual independence while simultaneously uncovering the disturbing socioeconomic stratum that not only foregrounds the progressive shift of the New South but also provides a contextual base for As I Lay Dying
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