Dirimens copulatio and metalinguistic negation in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!(William Faulkner ) From: Style | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2008 Northern Illinois University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Although many critics have noticed the prevalence of negation in Faulkner's prose, not enough attention has been paid to the unique function and logic of pairing negated statements with positive ones. This essay posits that the rhetorical figure of dirimens copulatio ("not x, but y") is raised to the organizing principle of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! This strategy of negating a prior statement to shape and clarify a positive one is not only locally employed at crucial moments in the novel, but it also characterizes the novel's wider structure of presenting a sequence of competing and ...

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