Demos for The Sound and the Fury
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The three videos here try to do two things at more or less the same time: demonstrate some of the ways you can use Digital Yoknapatawpha in your classroom or research, and develop a reading of some of the novel's major themes. I'd like to think you'll watch all three in order, but each is reasonably self-sufficient, and time cues are provided for each of them if you are interested in seeing a particular DY function - the search engines, for example, or a force-directed graph of the novel. At the bottom of this page we also list the textual events referenced in the videos, identified by the first words of each passage. I also advise watching the videos after reading different sections of the novel: video 1 after reading April Seventh, 1928; video 2 after reading June Second, 1910, and April Sixth, 1928; and video 3 after reading April Eighth, 1928. The first 8-minute video focuses on Benjy's section to explore how Faulkner's use of the stream-of-consciousness narrative technique - locating the narrative inside Benjy's perceptions and memories - to dramatize the presence of the past and to contrast the chaos of reality with the order and significance the artist can create. Using the Map (0:00 - 5:40) The second video looks at Quentin's and Jason's sections to explore the particular kind of "past" that matters in this novel - the personal or psychological past - which makes The Sound and the Fury Faulkner's most Freudian fiction. Using the Map (0:00 - 1:30) The third video focuses on the novel's last section. This is often called "Dilsey's section," but impressive as Dilsey's character is, Faulkner locates her story in a context defined by the novel's larger themes as a Modernist fiction. In what might better be called the Easter section, he juxtaposes her traditional faith with the godlessness of the Compsons' world, a world defined by what's absent, in which Jason and Benjy seek but cannot find something that does not signify nothingness. Playing Audio Clips (0:25 - 1:45) Passages mentioned in video 1: Passages mentioned in video 2:
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