Language and the Status of the Real in William Faulkner’s Light in August: A Historio-cultural Study
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Abstract
This study tries to bring a historio-cultural analysis of language and the status of the real in Faulkner’s Light in August. The creation of Yoknapatawpha County implies a dualism central to the works of William Faulkner. Yoknapatawpha, Faulkner’s fictional reconstruction of the American South and the land of his birth, expresses his dramatization of what he understood as reality. This involved an awareness of the distinction of a modern society, reified in its history and institutions from an older order of myth and tradition. The creation of Yoknapatawpha was ‘‘a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history.’’ (Eliot, 1984, p. 201) This dualism of order and disorder, art and reality creates the dual perspective of Faulkner’s fiction which views experience as at once meaningless and significant. This dichotomy helps to define the basic premises of Faulkner’s fictional world by identifying the conflict between the autonomy of the artist and his immersion in history; his power to create an imaginary world free from the constraints of reality and the spatial and temporal coordinates that bind him to that reality. Light in August may be viewed as a significant attempt on Faulkner’s part, at finding a way that could explore and dramatize the polyvalent significance of self, history and art in a modern world denied a fixed referential centre. The result is, what Bakhtin(1981) has called, a truly polyphonic novel that views reality as essentially multiple in nature. Key words: Dualism; Faulkner; Eliot; Yoknapatawpha; Bakhtin; DichotomyResume: Cette etude tente d'apporter une analyse historio-culturelle sur la langue et le statut du reel dans Lumiere d’aout de William Faulkner. La creation du Comte de Yoknapatawpha implique un dualisme au cœur de l'œuvre de William Faulkner. Yoknapatawpha, la reconstruction fictive par Faulkner de l'Amerique du Sud, son lieux de naissance, exprime sa dramatisation de ce qu'il a compris en tant que la realite. Cela impliquait une prise de conscience de la distinction entre une societe moderne, reifiee dans son histoire et des institutions d'un ancien ordre du mythe et de la tradition. La creation de Yoknapatawpha etait ''un moyen de controler, d'ordonner, de donner une forme et une signification a un immense panorama futile et anarchique qui est l'histoire contemporaine.''(Eliot, 1984, p. 201) Ce dualisme de l'ordre et desordre, de l'art et realite cree la double perspective de la fiction de Faulkner qui considere l'experience a la fois insensee et significative. Cette dichotomie permet de definir les premisses de base du monde fictif de Faulkner en identifiant les conflits entre l'autonomie de l'artiste et son immersion dans l'histoire; son pouvoir de creer un monde imaginaire libere des contraintes de la realite et les coordonnees spatiales et temporelles qui le lient a cette realite. Le roman Lumiere d'aout peut etre considere comme une tentative importante de Faulkner de trouver une maniere qui pourrait explorer et dramatiser la signification polyvalente de soi, l'histoire et l'art dans un monde moderne refusant un centre referentiel fixe. Le resultat est ce que Bakhtine (1981) a appele, un vrai roman polyphonique qui traite d’une realite de nature multiple.Mots cles: Dualism; Faulkner; Eliot; Yoknapatawpha; Bakhtine; Dichotomie
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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