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"He is not so much a novelist, in the usual sense of being a writer who sets out to observe actions and characters, then fits them into the framework of a story, as he is an epic or bardic poet in prose, a creator of myths that he weaves together into a legend of the South." --Malcolm Cowley commenting on William Faulkner |
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Perhaps one of the greatest American novelists was a modernist named William Faulkner. The impoverished farmlands of Oxford, Mississippi, home of the state's university, is where Faulkner lived and wrote most of his life. Faulkner's great theme was the American South. He saw it as a microcosm for universal themes of time and passions of the human heart. He saw the South as a nation unto itself with a strong sense of noble past. Faulkner's views and ties to the American South make him an excellent candidate for studying regional writing. Learn more about Faulkner. |
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