| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Germana, Michael Joseph
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| URN |
etd-041899-130309 |
| Title |
Forget Jerusalem: William Faulkner's Hyperreal Novel |
| Degree |
Master of Arts |
| Department |
English |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Hausman, Bernice L. |
Committee Chair |
| Hatfield, Leonard L. |
Committee Member |
| Kiebuzinska, Christine |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- Critical Theory
- Faulkner
- Modernism
- Baudrillard
- Postmodernism
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| Date of Defense |
1999-04-14 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This paper explores the relationality between Modernism and Postmodernism as well as between literature and theory by examining the works of two writers: master novelist William Faulkner, and high priest of Postmodernism, Jean Baudrillard. Specifically, this paper examines Faulkner’s eleventh novel—the oft-neglected If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem—as a proto-postmodern text which, when examined by the light of Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra and simulations, informs the transition from Modernism to Postmodernism.
This paper treats each author’s work as a lens through which to view the other. The result is both a re-vision of Faulkner’s social philosophy and a re-examination of the epistemic break that separates Faulkner’s philosophy from that of Baudrillard.
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