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Duvall, John N. "Faulkner's Marginal Couple and the Community," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 1986.
Unions of marginal men and women in Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon and The Wild Palms disturb the larger community’s sense of itself. These alternative couples challenge the mainstream assessment of gender, which derives from Cleanth Brooks’ argument that Faulkner created active men who follow a code of honor and passive women who are close to nature. Southern Agrarianism’s conservative ideology, speaking through Brooks’ foundational voice, leads Faulkner critics engaged in aesthetic commentary to perpetuate ideas with which they might consciously disagree. I suggest a method of reading ideology in four Faulkner novels and in the interpretive discourse surrounding them.
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