In Faulkner the past is like a void and unclear, differing radically from Joyce’s past, which above all is the past of culture, that which is devised and created, Odysseus and Circe, Dante, and Shakespeare, a past to which one relates through the intellect, whereas the past in Faulkner’s work is nameless and without language, and may only be sensed or felt. The difference is reflected, too, in the titles. Both are intertextual, Joyce finding his in Homer, Faulkner in Shakespeare, but while Joyce uses a name, Ulysses, and brings a culture to life, Faulkner uses a phenomenon of the world,
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