What Can We Learn From Children? A Reading of The Sound and the Fury

In this paper, I am interested in how a novel can make us see children as active and direct witnesses of their time. Through a close reading of The Sound and the Fury, I ask what we (adults and scholars) can learn from children. By closely looking at the picture of the ordinary through the lens of F...

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Published inCritical horizons : journal of social & critical theory Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 60 - 75
Main Author Motta, Marco
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.01.2023
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
aesthetics
Anthropology
childhood
Children
ethics
Faulkner
literature
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Summary:In this paper, I am interested in how a novel can make us see children as active and direct witnesses of their time. Through a close reading of The Sound and the Fury, I ask what we (adults and scholars) can learn from children. By closely looking at the picture of the ordinary through the lens of Faulkner's children recounting household events, I hope to show that they can inspire us to look differently at the world and teach us something about human attention and responsiveness to the life of others.
ISSN:1440-9917
1568-5160
DOI:10.1080/14409917.2021.1957358