William Faulkner- Modernism, Tradition, Innovation
William Faulkner- Modernism, Tradition, Innovation

Summary/Abstract: In being an instance of the quintessential modernist fiction and at the same the object of highly influential postmodern scholarship, Faulkner’s literary output condenses an ethos whose value and relevance are not time-bound. The richness of critical perspectives it accommodates, in addition to illustrating the inner dynamics of paradigmatic dominants, testifies to a hard core that has remained largely unchanged throughout the evolution of the Enlightenment project of modernity. Faulkner’s work subscribes to a secularization of thought that recuperates myth creatively on the side of cognitive strategies and posits stylistic experimentation as both an instance and a dramatization of the will to knowledge.

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