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Absalom
Absalom A son of
David; good-looking and ambitious; he gathered round himself a band of disaffected people who were prepared to overthrow David. He set up headquarters in
Hebron and marched towards Jerusalem, which David hastily abandoned. Across the River
Jordan, David arranged for secret intelligence from the capital through
Hushai (2 Sam. 15: 34–5), who gave misleading advice to Absalom. This allowed time for David to regroup his forces which were still loyal, and Absalom was defeated. Explicit instructions to spare the life of David's son were ignored by
Joab, and Absalom, who had become entangled in an oak tree, was stabbed in the heart. David's lament for his rebellious son is one of the most poignant passages in the OT (2 Sam. 18: 33).
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The eye of a needle: Morrison's Paradise, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, and the American Jeremiad
Magazine article from: The Faulkner Journal; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...destruction: William Faulkner. I will argue that Paradise can be read as a reworking of Absalom, Absalom! Paradise revisits two major issues raised by Absalom. First, the subject matter: empire building, how people become exactly what they...
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BLACK FEMINISM AND THE CANON: FAULKNER'S ABSALOM, ABSALOM! AND MORRISON'S BELOVED AS GOTHIC ROMANCES
Magazine article from: The Faulkner Journal; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...conventions in terms of which I will explain the revaluation of Morrison's Beloved and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! in particular. Although Absalom, Absalom! has been lauded as the greatest American novel (Kuyk 2), I will suggest that Beloved...
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PASSING AS MISCEGENATION: WHITENESS AND HOMOEROTICISM IN FAULKNER'S ABSALOM, ABSALOM!
Magazine article from: The Faulkner Journal; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; In Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! two paired male relationships, that of Quentin and Shreve in...taboos of homosexuality and miscegenation. I offer here a reading of Absalom, Absalom! similar to Deborah McDowell's famous reading of Nella...
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Racial mixture, racial passing, and white subjectivity in Absalom, Absalom!(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Faulkner Journal; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; In his 1987 study of the critical reception of Absalom, Absalom! Bernd Engler points out that since the mid-Seventies...favour have been those which, at least partly, regard Absalom, Absalom! as the conscious realization of an open...
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Absalom, Absalom! and the southern ideology of race
Magazine article from: The Faulkner Journal; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; CRITICS HAVE ALWAYS RECOGNIZED the ways in which Absalom, Absalom! focuses on the intense issue of race. What has not...inhabitants of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Absalom, Absalom! reveals characters who reject rigid definitions...
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Southern postcoloniality and the improbability of Filipino-American postcoloniality: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Hagedorn's Dogeaters.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 12/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...begin by reading two novels, William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! And Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters. I turn to a...In my comparative reading of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, I...
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RACIAL MIXTURE, RACIAL PASSING, AND WHITE SUBJECTIVITY IN ABSALOM, ABSALOM!
Magazine article from: The Faulkner Journal; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; In his 1987 study of the critical reception of Absalom, Absalom! Bernd Engler points out that "since the mid-Seventies...favour have been those which, at least partly, regard Absalom, Absalom! as the conscious realization of an open...
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Dirimens copulatio and metalinguistic negation in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!(William Faulkner )
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...prose is raised to a formative structural principle in Absalom, Absalom! (1936). For a novel ostensibly obsessed with the...Thomas Sutpen's history an essential indeterminacy. Absalom's characteristic uses of rhetorical negative clauses...
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Absalom, Absalom: Promenade to the past
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 9/11/1997; ; 661 words
; ...SHAPIRO Jerusalem Post 09-11-1997 True - Absalom's Pillar is not, by all accounts...spoken and one of David's oldest sons, Absalom apparently feared - with good reason...the throne before his father's death, Absalom mounted a revolt that was so successful...
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COMMENTARY: Omission of 'Absalom, Absalom!' is Oprah's folly
News Wire article from: University Wire; 10/31/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Lay Dying." So I've been left in the dust with "Absalom, Absalom!" I can certainly see why Oprah didn't select it...present any sort of factual summary of events. But "Absalom," in my mind, surpasses all of Faulkner's other...
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Absalom
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Absalom A son of David ; good-looking and ambitious...who gave misleading advice to Absalom. This allowed time for David to regroup his forces which were still loyal, and Absalom was defeated. Explicit instructions to...
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Absalom, Absalom!
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Absalom, Absalom!, novel by Faulkner , published in 1936. The story of Thomas Sutpen and the intricate patterns of other lives involved with his are narrated mainly through Quentin Compson, the grandson of Sutpen's befriender, General Compson...
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Absalom and Achitophel
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Absalom and Achitophel, an allegorical poem by Dryden , published 1681. A mock...public figures are represented under biblical names, notably Monmouth (Absalom), Shaftesbury, first Baron Ashley (Achitophel), the second duke of...
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Baird, Absalom
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Baird, Absalom (1824–1905) Union army officer and inspector general of the army, born in Washington, Pennsylvania. In the Civil...
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Grimes, Absalom Carlisle
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Grimes, Absalom Carlisle (1834–1911) steamboat pilot and Confederate mail runner, born in Anchorage, Kentucky. Grimes carried...
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