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The Southern Renaissance William Faulkner American southern literature can date back to Edgar Allen Poe, and reach its summit with the appearance of the two “giants” – Faulkner and Wolfe. There are southern women writers – Katherine Anne Porter凯瑟琳.安.波特 , Eudora Welty尤朵拉·韦尔蒂 , Flannery O’Connor弗兰纳里·奥康诺 . The Southern Renaissance I. Heritage Features of Southern literature prior to this renaissance  --- focus on historical romances about the Lost Cause of the Confederate States of America. --- glorified the heroism of the Confederate army and civilian population during the Civil War and the supposedly idyllic culture that existed in the South before the war (known as the Antebellum South). 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, Wolfe, Tennessee Williams, etc.  Three major themes in Southern Renaissance --- the burden of history in a place where many people still remembered slavery, reconstruction, and a devastating military defeat. --- focus on the Souths conservative culture, specifically on how an individual could exist without losing a sense of identity in a region where family, religion, and community were more highly valued than ones personal and social life. --- the Souths troubled history in regards to racial issues.  William Faulkner ---One of the greatest writer in 20th century ---initiator of Southern Renaissance ---one of the most influential modernist novel writers in the west  William Faulkner (1897-1962) William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 and began to write poetry as a teenager. During World War I, he joined the Canadian Royal Flying Corps but never fought; the day he graduated from the Flying Corps, the Armistice was signed. The only war injury he received was the result of getting drunk and partying too hard on Armistice Day, wherein he injured his