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Article: Eula Varner Snopes: men's monument, or more than that?(William Faulkner)(Critical essay)
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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FAULKNER'S SNOPES TRILOGY--ITS ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL landscape of the early twentieth-century South--tells us a great deal about how Southern society operates to control the lives of women. The conflict between the maintenance of conventional values by a community's dominant social group and the economic and social rise of its marginal group is a pivotal issue. However, the solidification of the value system of the dominant structure and the possibility of the rise of the marginal in the trilogy are significantly interconnected with Eula Varner Snopes's sexual body and her sacrifice. Eula embodies at once a splendid presence at the center of community discourse ...
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February 28, 1997 ;
700+ words
...Do we owe Flem Snopes an apology, or what? Some of us ... tactless Yoknapatawpha clan, sired by old Flem, who never met an occasion he couldn't spoil. But no one can be sure that even Flem Snopes would have treated the White House ...
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