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Urgo, Joseph. "William Faulkner: A Literature of the Life Experience," Brown University, July 1985. (12, 23)
This dissertation suggests an ordering principle for William Faulkner’s novels based upon the structure of the Snopes trilogy. The Snopes project provides an organic approach to the Faulkner canon which is not dependent on “myth” or “chronicle” or even “Southern” literature but arises from a life philosophy contained within the trilogy itself. This life philosophy consists of a triad of rebellions which Faulkner works out in his fiction. The Snopes novels voice rebellion against physical, intellectual, and spiritual confinement which the dissertation divides into sections of the body, the mind, and the spirit. The dissertation also incorporates a study of Faulkner’s biography according to the trilogic form of his life philosophy.
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