A Reading of "As I Lay Dying": Another Proposal for Thinking Faulkner's Aesthetics/Politics of Failure

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-135
Author(s):  
Sean K. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
As I Lay Dying

Toward Jerusalem: A journey of the eternal now (A Sermon)

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-107
Author(s):  
Richard Francis Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The United States ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
As I Lay Dying ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Martin Luther King

This article is a theological-ethical Lenten sermon that attempts to discern the transcendent themes in the narrative of Luke 9-19 with an especial focus upon “setting the face toward Jerusalem” and the subsequent weeping over Jerusalem. The sermon moves from a passage from William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying through a series of hermeneutical turns that rely upon insights from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Will Campbell, Augustine, and Paul Tillich with the hope of illuminating what setting of the face on Jerusalem might mean. Tillich’s “eternal now” theme elaborates Augustine’s insight that memory and time reduce the present as, to paraphrase the Saint, that all we have is a present: a present remembered, a present experienced, and a present anticipated. The Gospel is a timeless message applicable to every moment in time and history. The sermon seeks to connect with recent events in the United States and the world that focus upon challenges to the ideals of social justice and political tyranny.

Not Just a Cash Crop: Etymology and Naming in As I Lay Dying

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-240
Author(s):  
Jeanne C. Ewert
Keyword(s):  
Cash Crop ◽  
As I Lay Dying

scholarly journals The potentialities of corpus-based techniques for analyzing literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Khalid Shakir Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
As I Lay Dying ◽  
Analytical Potential ◽  
The Waves ◽  
The Way

This paper presents an attempt to explore the analytical potential of five corpus-based techniques: concordances, frequency lists, keyword lists, collocate lists, and dispersion plots. The basic question addressed is related to the contribution that these techniques make to gain more objective and insightful knowledge of the way literary meanings are encoded and of the way the literary language is organized. Three sizable English novels (Joyc's Ulysses, Woolf's The Waves, and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying) are laid to corpus linguistic analysis. It is only by virtue of corpus-based techniques that huge amounts of literary data are analyzable. Otherwise, the data will keep on to be not more than several lines of poetry or short excerpts of narrative. The corpus-based techniques presented throughout this paper contribute more or less to a sort of rigorous interpretation of literary texts far from the intuitive approaches usually utilized in traditional stylistics.

As I Lay Dying : le texte de la psychose

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Marc Amfreville
Keyword(s):  
As I Lay Dying

Death by Gramophone

At Fault ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 103-136
Author(s):  
Sebastian D.G. Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Live Performance ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
As I Lay Dying ◽  
Music Hall ◽  
Direct Threat

Modernism grew up with the gramophone and came to fear its mechanization as a threat to the lost aurality of a pre-war world. For many modernists, Joyce among them, the gramophone brought death, as the opposite of what they were writing for and a direct threat to their writing lives. Joyce’s gramophone recordings are paired with T. S. Eliot’s writings on the music-hall, and particularly the vaudeville performer Marie Lloyd, to show the humanity of live performance against the soullessness of art in a box. Other modernist works, from To the Lighthouse to As I Lay Dying to Krapp’s Last Tape to Brighton Rock, make an appearance in this wide-ranging study.

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