| If two students submitted two in-class essays with similar content and diction, how would the teacher look at the coincidence? In my M.A. thesis, I shall explore coincidental contents and images in literatures as a narrative problematic.; In Chapter One, I shall first introduce Sigmund Freud's conception of the primal scene, which, as elaborated by Ned Lukacher, is "a new notion of literature" that erases the dichotomy between cause and effect, disclosure and concealment, literal truth and figural lie. This primal scene notion brought forth by Lukacher is best exemplified in Agatha Christie's detective fictions.; In Chapter Two, I shall interpret William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" as the primal scene of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The White Old Maid".; In Chapter Three, I shall situate myself in the position of an archetypal critic and reevaluate the intertextuality between Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and a variety of literary texts written in both the modern and medieval time. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)... |
