William Faulkner

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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 Fugitives
  • Southern Agrarians

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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 Glorious Revolution

    • The Glorious Revolution was the peaceful overthrow and replacement of King James II with William III and Mary II of England.
    • In February 1689, William and his wife became joint monarchs as William III and Mary II of England .
    • King James was deposed in the Revolution of 1688 by William III.
    • Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay, engraving by William Miller after J M W Turner, 1852
    • William of Orange successfully invaded England with a Dutch fleet in the Glorious Revolution of 1688
  • From Roosevelt to Taft

    • In 1908, Theodore Roosevelt persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft to run against Democratic candidate William Bryan.
    • The United States presidential election of 1908 was between Republican party candidate William Howard Taft and Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan.
    • On their side, the Democrats, after badly losing the 1904 election with a conservative candidate, turned to two-time nominee William Jennings Bryan, who had been defeated in 1896 and 1900 by Republican William McKinley.
  • Rhode Island

    • Rhode Island was formed as an English colony by Roger Williams and others fleeing prosecution from Puritans.
    • Williams named the other islands in the Narragansett Bay after virtues: Patience Island, Prudence Island, and Hope Island.
    • Williams wrote favorably about the American Indian peoples, contrasting their virtues with Puritan New England’s intolerance.
    • In 1644, Roger Williams secured a land patent establishing the Incorporation of Providence Plantations in the Narragansett Bay.
    • Engraved print depicting Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, meeting with the Narragansett Indians.
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