Article: Something new and hard and bright: Faulkner, ideology and the construction of modernism.(Special Issue: William Faulkner)

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off. - William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Indisputably, William Faulkner is an icon of what we know today as modernist literature and the ideology of modernism.(1) Since the 1960s or at the very least since the publication of the modernist's bible, The Modern Tradition (1965), scholars have generally assumed that modernism in literature was born, fully aware and ambulatory, perhaps in 1922, with Joyce's Ulysses and Eliot's Waste Land, but certainly by ...

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