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As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic [1] novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of the 20th century. [2] [3] [4] The title is derived from William Marris's 1925 translation of Homer's Odyssey, [5] referring to the similar themes of both works.
Southern Gothic is an artistic subgenre of fiction, ... Ellen Glasgow critiqued the writings of Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, and the "Southern Gothic School", ...
Light in August is a 1932 novel by American author William Faulkner.It belongs to the Southern gothic and modernist literary genres.. Set in the author's present day, the interwar period, the novel centers on two strangers, a pregnant white woman and a man who passes as white but who believes himself to be of mixed ethnicity.
Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936.Taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen.
William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; [1] [2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.
MISSISSIPPI: William Faulkner. William Faulkner. CORBIS/Corbis/Getty Images. ... McCarthy's works are closely tied to the South, but the Southern Gothic writer was actually born in Providence.
It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are ...
The Southern Renaissance (also known as Southern Renascence) [1] was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Caroline Gordon, Margaret Mitchell, Katherine Anne Porter, Erskine Caldwell, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren, and Zora Neale Hurston, among others.