THE SOUTH IN BLOOM AND THE WITHERING SOUTH: PLANT SYMBOLISM IN W. FAULKNER’S NOVELS
Abstract
In the article, W. Faulkner’s plant symbolism in the novels “The Sound and the Fury” and “Absalom, Absalom!” are analyzed as a part of Southern Eden myth in comparison with the traditional plantation novels of G. Tucker “The Valley of Shenandoah or, Memoirs of the Graysons” and J.P. Kennedy “Swallow Barn”. Classical plant metaphors of American Southern novel are in the focus of attention, as well as their reinterpretation by Faulkner and his image of the South as lost and degrading Garden of Eden.
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