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... Faulkner , because it is in his novels and stories that the sense of the past in the present has been most ... Faulkner's achievement ? Not simply , great though it is , the creation of his world , his imaginary Yocnapatawpha County ...
... Faulkner , because it is in his novels and stories that the sense of the past in the present has been most ... Faulkner's achievement ? Not simply , great though it is , the creation of his world , his imaginary Yocnapatawpha County ...
Page 115
... Faulkner's humanity . Faulkner's greatest achievement came relatively early in his career : a handful of short stories and the novels The Sound and the Fury ( 1929 ) , As I Lay Dying ( 1930 ) , Light in August ( 1932 ) and Absalom ...
... Faulkner's humanity . Faulkner's greatest achievement came relatively early in his career : a handful of short stories and the novels The Sound and the Fury ( 1929 ) , As I Lay Dying ( 1930 ) , Light in August ( 1932 ) and Absalom ...
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... Faulkner isolates the determining incident , the traumatic situation , that governs his life . He is a very small boy in an orphanage . He is in the dietician's room eating the woman's tooth- paste ; she returns and he hides behind a ...
... Faulkner isolates the determining incident , the traumatic situation , that governs his life . He is a very small boy in an orphanage . He is in the dietician's room eating the woman's tooth- paste ; she returns and he hides behind a ...
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