Writing against the odds - the South's cultural and literary struggle against progress and modernity

by Julia Merkel

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Frankfurt (Main) (IEAS), language: English, abstract: "The past is never dead. It is not even past" (Faulkner 1976: 81), the lawyer Gavin Stevens unforgivingly says to Temple Drake in William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun during the trial against her maid Nancy, who is accused of killing Temple's child. Temple has told him, "Temple Drake is dead"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 364012376X
• ISBN13: 9783640123766
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"