윌리엄 포크너의 『모세여 내려가라』: 열린 텍스트로서의 ‘장부’ 읽기
William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses: Reading ‘ledgers’ as an Open Text
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This study aims to explore the inscape of renunciation of the inheritance and psychological state of Ike McCasline while reading Old Carother’s ledgers. In the ledgers Ike, at first, wanted to discover the glorious past of the Old South, but his findings were the history of sins and evils such as miscegenation, incest, and horrible slavery. Obsessed with Old Carother’s amoral behavior, Ike decided to renunciate the inheritance of the plantation. Before his decision, Ike encountered ‘ledgers’ as an open text like the Bible which has been interpreted and reinterpreted for such a long time. As an open text. ‘ledgers’ provide a chasm and gap through which Ike reinterprets Old Carother’s past. Aside from tangled triangulation of Old Carothers, Eunice, and Tomasina, Brownly episode reveals Buck’s homosexual miscegeny with a slave as well as incestuous liaison between Buck and Buddy. This truth allows us to re-read the entire episode while it brings Ike to realize the fact that the ledgers are not sacred documents but a legitimate excuse full of sins and evils for him to renunciate the land ownership and the very idea of possession as well. In conclusion, reading Go Down, Moses in this way constructs a critical frame that is both diachronic and synchronic, and thus contributes to current debates articulated within the revisionary project of a new open text which enables interpretation and reinterpretation of the text.
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This study aims to explore the inscape of renunciation of the inheritance and psychological state of Ike McCasline while reading Old Carother’s ledgers. In the ledgers Ike, at first, wanted to discover the glorious past of the Old South, but his findings were the history of sins and evils such as miscegenation, incest, and horrible slavery. Obsessed with Old Carother’s amoral behavior, Ike decided to renunciate the inheritance of the plantation. Before his decision, Ike encountered ‘ledgers’ as an open text like the Bible which has been interpreted and reinterpreted for such a long time. As an open text. ‘ledgers’ provide a chasm and gap through which Ike reinterprets Old Carother’s past. Aside from tangled triangulation of Old Carothers, Eunice, and Tomasina, Brownly episode reveals Buck’s homosexual miscegeny with a slave as well as incestuous liaison between Buck and Buddy. This truth allows us to re-read the entire episode while it brings Ike to realize the fact that the ledgers are not sacred documents but a legitimate excuse full of sins and evils for him to renunciate the land ownership and the very idea of possession as well. In conclusion, reading Go Down, Moses in this way constructs a critical frame that is both diachronic and synchronic, and thus contributes to current debates articulated within the revisionary project of a new open text which enables interpretation and reinterpretation of the text.
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