Organized Chaos: Cohesive Devices in Benjy’s Sections of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

Abstract

As the history of criticism on The Sound and the Fury proves it, Benjy’s section is probably the most controversial part of the novel. Some literary critics and writers celebrated it as an excellent piece of literary art, the peak of writerly performance, while others felt confused and irritated over the trials it posed to the reader.

Keywords

• william faulkner
• benjy
• text linguistics
• cohesive devices