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What Faulkner (might have) learned from Joyce.(James Joyce's influence on William Faulkner's work)(Critical essay)

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From: The Mississippi Quarterly
Date: 20050622
Author:Sykes, John D., Jr.

AS MICHAEL ZEITLIN AND OTHERS HAVE POINTED OUT, ONE OF THE SOURCES of Faulkner's mature art was the discovery of the "lines and nets of discursivity" generated by Freud ("Joyce"). (1) And there can be little doubt that Joyce was Faulkner's major teacher of how Freud's ideas could give rise to new fictional techniques of characterization and emplotment. For Faulkner's work from Elmer on abounds in parallels and echoes from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. (2) One could go so far as to say that Joyce opened the way for Faulkner's artistic appropriation of Freud ...

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