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What is the law of generation
The younger generation that came back from the war that no longer felt patriotic content or safe
What did modernism represent ?
Struggle that many had with new ideas and discoveries against tradition that didn’t seem so important before
What did the youth culture establish
Free expression and a deliberate break from tradition became defining characteristics
What were some of the stories that modernism had ?
Thoughtful and self reflective while others had an overwhelming sense of alteration.
What were included in many works ?
Experimentation with gender roles beginning of racial issues and inclusion of pop culture
What did modernism stories show Pt.2
Wealth of middle class and upper class and bleakness of rural life
What contributed to the tone of many works of the time
Psychology, faith, religion or belief in a higher power was challenged by this
Where was William born
New Albany, Mississippi in 1897
What were Williams genre of early works
Poetry
What style of writing ddid William become famous for
His novels set in the American south
Some of his works included ?
The sound and the fury, as I lay dying and Absalom , Absaloml
Which of his novels were controversial and turned into 2’movies and when
Sanctuary, the novel was written in 1931
When what story was written in 1933 and became a movie in 1961
The story of temple drake
What award was Faulkner awarded and when
The Nobel prize in literature ( 1949), 2 Pulitzers and 2 national
