Life and Death in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930) and Kamel Daoud’s Zabor ou les Psaumes (2017)
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2020
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
This dissertation attempts to depict the universal theme of ―life and death‖ in William Faulkner‘s As I Lay Dying (1930) and Kamel Daoud‘s Zabor ou les Psaumes (2017). It studies how the two authors tackled this theme from different perspectives to refer to social, political and religious issues. The analysis in the study relied on some theoretical concepts, mainly Northrop Frye‘s theory of Myth, discussed in The Anatomy of Criticism1957, and Sigmund Freud‘s psychoanalytic concept of the ‗Oedipus Complex‘. This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter explores the characters‘ journey of life and death through both the physical quest of the Bundrens in As I Lay Dying and the spiritual quest of Zabor in Zabor ou les Psaumes using Frye‘s ―mythos of summer: Romance‖. Both Faulkner and Daoud rely on myth to prove the eternity of texts. The second chapter deals with complex parents -son(s) relationships. In this part, we deduce that the characters of the two novels have complex relationships with their parents through exploring the themes of rivalry and jealousy using the Freudian concepts: ―Oedipus complex and sibling rivalry‖ to show how the two authors displace the family problems to refer to the social problems of their communities. The last chapter highlights how the two authors have used irony to show the hypocrisy of many believers during the American Great Depression and the Algerian ‗Black Decade‘, showing the gape between the characters‘ appearances and behaviours and their deeds.
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30cm ; 77p.
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Life, death, myth, parents-son relationships, faith.
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Littérature Génerale et Comparée