Contrafactual Counterpoint: Revisiting the Polyphonic Novel Metaphor with Faulkner's The Wild Palms1.
The article theorises the notion of contrapuntal polyphony as applied to literary narrative and sketches out an algorithm for reading William Faulkner's 1939 The Wild Palms in terms of the musical analogy. Contrapuntal fiction is contrafactual, since neither actual sound nor simultaneous parts of eq...
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