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Southern Dialect in William Faulkner
Title: Southern Dialect in William Faulkner
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2912 | Pages: 12.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Southern Dialect in William Faulkner
In the writings of William Faulkner, the reader may sense that the author has created an entire world which directly reflects his own personal experience. Faulkner writes about the area in and around Mississippi, where he is from, during the post-Civil War period. It is most frequently Northern Mississippi that Faulkner uses for his literary territory, changing Oxford to “Jefferson” and Lafayette County to “Yoknapatawpha County,” because it is here that he lived most of …showed first 75 words of 2912 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2912 total…Winter, 1967), 219.
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