TIME, MYTH AND CONSCIENCE IN JAMES JOYCE’S AND WILLIAM FAULKNER’S NOVELS
TIME, MYTH AND CONSCIENCE IN JAMES JOYCE’S AND WILLIAM FAULKNER’S NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: James Joyceřs and William Faulknerřs characters can be divided into two groups when it comes to the construction and the formation of their conscience: there are characters that gravitate around the pattern in which they have been formed, unable to write their own destinies, and there are also characters that try to flee away from this pattern, from the social environment in which they have been raised, in order to shape their own history. This article focuses on the relation between (mythical) time and conscience, and the way conscience can be seen either as a reflection of the outside world, a centripetal force, or as an inside voice, a centrifugal energy.

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