William Faulkner

(noun)

William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962) was an American writer and Nobel laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. He is best known for his 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury.

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  • The Southern Renaissance

    • The Southern Renaissance included famed writers such as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Robert Penn Warren.
    • Among the writers of the Southern Renaissance, William Faulkner is arguably the most influential and famous as the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
    • Beyond Faulkner, playwright Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie), author Robert Penn Warren (All the King’s Men), and others including Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, and Allen Tate were classified as Southern Renaissance writers.
    • William Faulkner, author of the 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, was a leading voice in the Southern Renaissance movement.

  • Literature

    • Celebrated Modernists include Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, F.
    • Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner, and while largely regarded as a romantic poet, Walt Whitman is sometimes regarded as a pioneer of the modernist era in America.

  • Literature and the Depression

    • Although his major works, including Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring , would not be free of the label of obscenity until 1962, their themes and stylistic innovations had already exerted a major influence on succeeding generations of American writers, and paved the way for sexually frank 1960s novels by John Updike , Philip Roth , Gore Vidal , John Rechy , and William Styron .
    • Additional important literary works of the depression era include: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!

  • The Lost Generation

    • Celebrated modernists also include Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and William Faulkner.

  • Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. "Mark Twain"

    • He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature . "

  • Culture in the Thirties

    • Other important literary works of the Great Depression era that reached the status of American classics include: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!

  • Conclusion: Cultural Change in the Interwar Period

    • Celebrated modernists also included Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and William Faulkner.

  • The Modern Political Campaign

    • The first modern campaign is thought to be William Ewart Gladstone's Midlothian campaign in the 1880's, although there may have been earlier modern examples from the 19th century.
    • Walter Faulkner, candidate for U.S.

  • The Norman Invasion of 1066 CE

    • The Norman conquest of England was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.
    • William's claim to the English throne derived from his familial relationship with the childless Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor, who may have encouraged William's hopes for the throne.
    • The deaths of Tostig and Hardrada at Stamford left William as Harold's only serious opponent.
    • Harold's army confronted William's invaders on October 14 at the Battle of Hastings.
    • William of Jumieges claimed that Harold was killed by William.

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    • Walter Faulkner, candidate for U.S.