The interplay of irony and ideology in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”

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Pages: 127-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/NYZG7799

Abstract:

This essay presents a close reading of William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” (1930). Unlike conventional analyses rooted in psychoanalytic, social, and gender-based perspectives, this paper focuses on the rhetoric of the text. Drawing on the critical frameworks of Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author” and Georges Poulet’s “Phenomenology of Reading,” the study explores the dialectic between the tale and its reader by examining the interplay between irony and ideology as they emerge in the act of reading. By unravelling the expressions and their etymological meanings, the paper aims to critically reveal the signs and the problems of interpreting the tale.

Keywords:

William Faulkner; Emily; Romantic; irony; ideology; reader.

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