As I Lay Dying | Social Concerns
In 1930, after the publication of what most critics believe to be William Faulkner's masterpiece, The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner created his "tour de force," As I Lay Dying. While critics have been more than willing to praise Faulkner's mastery of the multiple styles he used in As I Lay Dying, most disagree about the genre, or type, of novel Faulkner wrote. As I Lay Dying could be a heroic epic, with Anse Bundren and his children braving fire and flood to bury his wife and their mother; or a comic epic, where the Bundrens' bravery is for selfish ends. The...
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