Caedmon/Harper Audio, 1992. The novelist presents his novel being conscious with modern techniques of narration and themes as well as the structural aspects of the novel. Southern Gothic is an odd little genre that Faulkner basically stamped his name on. May 16, 2015 - Explore kj_mclean's board "William Faulkner", followed by 365 people on Pinterest. It is composed of literature which explores issues in the American South – like poverty, religion, or familial duty, in the case of As I Lay Dying – and relies on the eerie or supernatural to drive the plot. A dead chick in a coffin? William Faulkner’s self-proclaimed masterpiece, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, is a fascinating exploration of the many voices found in a Southern family and community. Faulkner said that he wrote the novel from midnight to 4:00 AM over the course of six weeks and that he did not change a word of it. Faulkner's style in this novel varies according to the character who is narrating the section. William Faulkner Reads: The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Selections from As I Lay Dying, A Fable, The Old Man. Arcady Series, MGM E3617 ARC, 1957. ISBN 1-55994-572-9; William Faulkner Reads from His Work. His style is this prescribed novel is closer to poetry than to prose. William Faulkner wrote numerous novels, screenplays, poems, and short stories. Faulkner reads from The Sound and The Fury (side one) and Light in August (side two). The following curriculum unit examines the novel's use of multiple voices in its narrative. Today he is best remembered for his novels The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), and Absalom, Absalom! Writing Style and Publications ... “As I Lay Dying”, published in 1930; and ... letters, and other personal writing to the William Faulkner Foundation at the University of Virginia. Cassette. See more ideas about Faulkner, Author quotes, As i lay dying. Faulkner's style in As I Lay Dying is somewhat poetic. As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner.Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th-century literature. The subtle variations in the style are one of the notable achievements of this novel. Faulkner served as Writer-In-Residence for the University of Virginia from 1957 until his death in … Few American writers command the same level of respect and awe as Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner William Faulkner. He tries to capture the emotion of an experience as well as the experience itself. (1936). Narrative Technique in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying William Faulkner has presented himself as a modernist novelist in regard to the narrative technique used in his novel As I Lay Dying. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner As I Lay Dying is a 1930 novel, in the genre of Southern Gothic, by American author William Faulkner. Born in 1897 and best-known for his novels As I Lay Dying; Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize–winning novelist of the American South who wrote challenging prose and created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.