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Faulkner
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Faulk·ner also Falk·ner  (fôknr), William 1897-1962.
American writer who set many of his works, such as the novels The Sound and the Fury (1929) and The Unvanquished (1938), in the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County, a microcosm of the postbellum South, in which he explored the decay of traditional Southern culture and the relations between the races. He won the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature.
Faulk·neri·an (fôk-nîr-n) adj.
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Noun1.FaulknerFaulkner - United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)
Falkner, William Cuthbert Faulkner, William Falkner, William Faulkner


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Its Faulknerian prose manages to be both purple and flat while its political reflections are just banal.
Why Americans can't write political fiction by Lehmann, Christopher / Washington Monthly
Loosely framed as a Faulknerian chronicle of the decline of a noble family into penury and disarray, Pea's autobiographical novel casts a sharp and vitriolic anticlerical eye on the disintegration of Italian rural life at the turn of the century, as the traditional hierarchies of class and gender were giving way to a kind of generalized delirium.
Local colore by Sieburth, Richard / Artforum International
What Faulkner's characters "do" in the present is always quite legibly either an attenuated or apotheosized (to pick two Faulknerian words that don't even get us past "a" in the alphabet) form of some practice of the past.
History and practice 2004 by Melnick, Jeff / Radical Teacher
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