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Southern Renaissance and William Faulkner The Southern Renaissance was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, and Robert Penn Warren Southern Renaissance(1920S-1930S) The American south has been a unique region all along. There was the historically significant conflict between the north and the south. For a long time after the Civil War the agricultural south remained subordinate to industrial north, and there existed a glaring gap in culture and way of thinking between the two parts of the country. Background Measures were taken to develop the south; economic improvements slowly came about. Although the south remained conservative, there appeared a visible sign of change in literature, and there were efforts to reassess the past and the present and do self-searching. Background William Faulkner (1897-1962) New Albany, Mississippi (1897) (with a prominent great-grandfather, Colonel William Faklner Royal Flying Corps in Canada (1918) The help of Philip Stone and Sherwood Anderson The Marble Faun (1924); Soldier’s Pay (1926) 1929: Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury Nobel Prize (1949) Died of heart attack in Oxford (1962) Main Works The Sound and the Fury (《喧哗与骚动》) Light in August (《八月之光》) Absalom, Absalom (《押沙龙，押沙龙！》) Go down, Moses (《去吧，摩西》) Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha Novels Historical period: from very early before the civil War up to the 1920s Characters: people of a stratified society, the aristocrats, the new rich, the poor whites, and the blacks. Overall pattern of these novels: ? Tracing the downfall of an aristocratic family ? The collision of his intelligent, sensitive, and idealistic protagonist with the society of the twentieth century.