Verve out of As I Lay Dying

• Main Authors: Tsai- Jia Ying, 蔡佳穎
• Other Authors: Dai Wei Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85794872973908697813

碩士 === 國立師範大學 === 英語學系 === 86 === This thesis concentrates on the two major aspects of verve in As I Lay Dying: primarily, that of the weird Bundrens and secondarily, that of this unusualnovels. it deals with the dynamics and recreations of human life. This crucial power of life becomes what so many religions,philosophies,and arts are strenuously concerned about. Choosing it as a point of departure,I will examine and explore the significance of the novel in which the verve of the dying Addie or even the dead Addie can miraculously surmount death per se.The first chapter,"Introduction,"will expoound why I take As I Lay Dying intoanalysis, and why I adopt verve as the main topic of my thesis. The secondchapter,"The Title,"will firstly utilize the philosophical perspectives of Bergson, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer to define verve, and then search for the verve, which sarkles in each word of the novel's title. The third chapter,"TheSound and the Fury,"will condense the intertextuality of Macbeth, The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying into the concept of verve. The fourth chapter, "Enduring and Prevailing,"mainly an unconscious self-interpretation of Faulkner, will avail itself of his Nobel Prize Acceptance Address to decipher the verve of As I lay Dying. "I believe that man will not merely endure:he will prevail,"Faulkner definitely claimed. The fifth chapter,"Conclusion,"will present the kaleidoscopic verve out of some of Faulkner's important literary techniques applied to As I lay Dying,whose furious"heteroglossia" can break the silence of death to become"enduring" and "prevailing."