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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

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Author Biography

Name: William Faulkner
Birth Date: September 25, 1897
Death Date: July 6, 1962
Place of Birth: New Albany, Mississippi, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, author

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Biography of William Faulkner
13762 words, approx. 45.9 pages
William Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as ready to release the imagination as it is to channel it. Each of Faulk...
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Biography of William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
12876 words, approx. 42.9 pages
William Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as ready to release the imagination as it is to channel it. Each of Faulk...
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Biography of William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
10369 words, approx. 34.6 pages
William Faulkner was first and foremost a novelist, and much of his achievement in the short-story form is closely related to his accomplishment as a novelist. This does not necessarily imply that his short stories are second to his novels in all respect...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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As I Lay Dying Information
1,758 words, approx. 6 pages
<i>As I Lay Dying</i> is a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. The novel was published in 1930, and Faulkner described it as a "tour de force". It is Faulkner's fifth novel and is read in schools, colleges, and universities throughout...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Carolyn Norman Slaughter
6,029 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Slaughter provides a close examination of Faulkner's use of language in As I Lay Dying.
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Critical Essay by Alice Shoemaker
602 words, approx. 2 pages
As I Lay Dying is a remarkable illustration of [the fusion of form and content], for in this tour de force the author blends the architectonic structure of a wheel within a wheel with subject matter based on the age-old quest resulting in geographically, psychologically, and philosophically cyclical movement. Two antithetical perspectives are represented in this novel, that of Bundrens and non-Bundrens toward the journey to Jefferson. These perspectives can be conceived of architectonically as the rims of t...
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 96%
Addie as an Influential Character in "As I Lay Dying"
1,885 words, approx. 6 pages
In the novel "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner, Addie Bundren, although a minor character in the book, is the primary influence in the development of her children's personality traits.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Analysis of Addie in the Novel "As I Lay Dying"
1,818 words, approx. 6 pages
Essay provides a character analysis of Addie in the novel "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Shapes That Fill Lack: a Bundren Burden
1,596 words, approx. 5 pages
Explains and attempts to prove Faulkner's quote about As I Lay Dying, "Man's tragedy is the impossibility--or at least the tremendous difficulty--of communication." Examines each family member's part in the problem.
 


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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

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