William Faulkner was an American writer known for his novels, short stories, poems, screenplays and plays. Some of his most famous works include The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 for his innovative style and portrayal of the American South. The Sound and the Fury uses stream of consciousness techniques to tell the story of the declining Compson family through the perspectives of different narrators.

1. William Faulkner

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 American writer
 Novels, short stories, poetry, screen plays,
essays, and plays.
Shakespeare of American Literature
William Cuthbert Faulkner

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The Sound and the Fury 1929
 Absalom, Absalom! 1936
 As I Lay Dying 1930
 Light in August 1932
His Works

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 Nobel Prize for Literature 1949
 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1955 and 1963
 National Book Award 1951 and 1955
Awards

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 Novel, Southern Gothic & Modernist
 Effect of American Civil War (1861-1865) on South
American People.
 Use of Stream of Consciousness Technique
 The title of this novel is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth
 Adapted for film in 1959 & 2014
The Soundandthe fury

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 A literary style in which a character’s thoughts,
feelings, and reactions are depicted in continuous
flow, without interruptions.
 Term was coined by William James in his The
Principles of Psychology 1980
 William Faulkner was the first to use this
technique in America
Stream of Consciousness

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 Compson family
Parents: Jason & Caroline
Children:
Quentin, Candce, Jason, Benjamin
 Servants
Dilsey & others
Characters

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 Time, memory, and past
 Family
 Decline and corruption of Southern
Aristocratic values
Themes

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 Story told in four parts.
 Each one is narrated by different characters.
 Setting – Jefferson Mississippi
Appendix – History of Compson family

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