Setting: Mississippi in the early 20th century.Other famous writers who participated most visibly in the modernist aesthetic include James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T.S. Faulkner demonstrates modernism’s appreciation of all kinds of linguistic and formal experimentation, and perpetuation of new and innovative stylistic techniques. Thus there was a movement in the realm of literature to challenge the traditional values of literature – straightforward plot, omniscient narration, linear sense of time, among others. The havoc of World War I caused an impulse in society, demoralized by war, to challenge society’s very foundations and to uproot tradition. Literary Period: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is a representative work of literary modernism, a movement which established itself in the early 20th century.
Where Written: Faulkner famously wrote As I Lay Dying in a six-week period of time while working at a local power-plant in Mississippi.
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