THE POETICS OF SOUTHERN GOTHIC AND ITS SENSORY DIMENSION IN WILLIAM FAULKNER’S WORKS
Keywords:
William Faulkner;, Southern Gothic, modernism;, sensory imagery;, decay, grotesque;, chronotopeAbstract
William Faulkner is one of the major writers of literary modernism, yet his prose is inseparable from the cultural and historical reality of the American South. This article examines the poetics of Southern Gothic in Faulkner’s works, with particular attention to its sensory dimension. It argues that such abstract categories as the past, guilt, decay, and fate become materially perceptible through smell, sound, sight, and touch. Sensory imagery in Faulkner is not only a means of creating atmosphere but also an essential instrument of world-building. Through sensory details, Faulkner constructs a specific Gothic chronotope in which the past invades the present and historical trauma acquires physical form.
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