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A Rose for Emily - A Gothic Horror Tale

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English

 

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March 10, 2013

 

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In a lecture to students documented by Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner in Faulkner in the University: Class Conferences at the University of Virginia 1957-1958, Faulkner himself claimed that "A Rose for Emily" is a "ghost story." In fact, Faulkner is considered by many to be the progenitor of a sub-genre, the Southern gothic...
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The Southern gothic style combines the elements of classic Gothicism with particular Southern archetypes (the reclusive spinster, for example) and puts them in a Southern milieu. Faulkner's novels and stories about the South include dark, taboo subjects such as murder, suicide, and incest. James M. Mellard, in The Faulkner Journal, argues that "A Rose for Emily" is a "retrospective Gothic;" that is, the reader is unaware that the story is Gothic until the ending when Homer Barron's corpse is discovered...
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