Traumatic Loss in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom !
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The present research on Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom! attempts to explore the trauma of loss and lamentation. This seems that the loss stems from the exclusive devotion to the lost object, characteristic of the melancholic. It assumes that the rhetoric of lamentation vacillates between the claims of position and acknowledgement of loss. The moment of lamentation in Faulkner's novel urges on the language of melancholia and trauma.