caa a22 4500 397552017 CHVBK 20180308164752.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199612 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/litthe/10.4.361 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/litthe/10.4.361 Kleppe Sandra Lee Department of English, ISL, University of Tromse THE CURSE OF GOD IN FAULKNER'S GO DOWN, MOSES [Elektronische Daten] [Sandra Lee Kleppe] William Faulkner frequently employed religious perspectives throughtout his work. This article explores Faulkner's use of religious motifs in Go Down, Moses. The main protagonist of the book, Issac McCaslin, is caught up in a complex web of religious influences which form his world view from boyhood to old age. Though he is nurturned on the spiritual primitivism of his mentor, the part-Indian Sarn Fathers, it is nevertheless a personal form of Stoicism and especially the Protestant faith of the Soth which will have the most pervasive influence on him and his family. In Go Down, Moses, Faulkner encodes a myth of an inescapable curse of God by subtly pattering the McCaslin genealogy on the Old Testament patriarchs, openingup for a Bakhtinian intertexual reading of the book. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence Literature and Theology Oxford University Press 10/4(1996-12), 361-369 0269-1205 10:4<361 1996 10 litthe https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/10.4.361 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/10.4.361 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kleppe Sandra Lee Department of English, ISL, University of Tromse NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Literature and Theology Oxford University Press 10/4(1996-12), 361-369 0269-1205 10:4<361 1996 10 litthe Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford