THE EXPRESSION OF PART–WHOLE RELATIONS IN “A ROSE FOR EMILY’’ BY WILLIAM FAULKNER
Keywords:
Part-whole relations, Partonymy, Narrative fragmentation, Faulkner, Symbolism.Abstract
This thesis explores the use of part-whole relations as one of the structural and thematic engines in William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily.” Through an interdisciplinary approach that brings together insights from partonymy in linguistics to theories in cognitive narratology, spatial theory, psychoanalytic criticism, and reader-response criticism, it is argued that meaning is made in Faulkner’s short story through elements that are intentionally disaggregated so that it is up to the reader to make something meaningful out of them. Instead of having linear unity in terms of its narrative structure, meaning in the short story is made through non-linear elements in terms of its temporality, space, objects, and collective narrative voice.
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