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No 1 (44) 2016 - William Faulkner

Stream of Consciousness and Polyphony in William Faulkner’s Novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! An Attempt at Synthesis

Stream of Consciousness and Polyphony in William Faulkner’s Novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! An Attempt at Synthesis

Justyna Pyra (University of Warsaw)

The full version of this article is available  in Polish  in the printed version of Tekstualia and in the on-line subscription.

The article applies Robert Humphrey’s analysis of the narrative mode of stream of consciousness to William Faulkner’s novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! It discusses Faulkner’s uses of different types of stream of consciousness and his presumed purposes behind the employment this narrative mode. Unlike some other modernist writers, who treated stream of consciousness as a literary experiment, Faulkner developed it into a complex narrative mode.

The sample of Polish version of this article is available here: https://tekstualia.pl/files/cac3853b/pyra_justyna-strumien_swiadomosci.pdf 

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