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Article: Faulkner's "fabulous immeasurable Camelots": Absalom, Absalom! and Le Morte Darthur.(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- The Southern Literary Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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As the recent volume King Arthur in America by Alan and Barbara Tepa Lupack attests, William Faulkner used the Arthurian legend to articulate many of the major themes and motifs in his works. The Lupacks draw on previous scholarly material while adding their own excellent insights, arguing that Faulkner's Arthurianism, like Joyce and Eliot's, negotiates the pathos of nostalgia for a lost past and provides another branch of mythology to inform a modernist interpretation of twentieth-century life. While immensely illuminating, the Lupacks' work does not, however, purport to be the in-depth analysis that this largely overlooked aspect of Faulkner's writing deserves. (1)
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