There Was a Queen
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"There Was a Queen" is a short story by William Faulkner that explores themes of memory, decay, and the legacy of the Old South through the perspectives of aging women in a once-prominent Southern family.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha universe
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myth of the Old South ⓘ |
| author | William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
haunting memories
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ruined or decaying household ⓘ social change in the South ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| explores |
female perspectives on Southern history
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myth versus reality of the Old South ⓘ tension between past and present ⓘ |
| fictionalCounty | Yoknapatawpha County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
a once-prominent Southern family
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aging women ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
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modernist fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
Southern matriarch
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servant or retainer figures ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasLength | short fiction ⓘ |
| hasTitle | There Was a Queen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainThemes |
decay
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family legacy ⓘ gender and aging ⓘ legacy of the Old South ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | Yoknapatawpha County saga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistType | elderly Southern women ⓘ |
| recurringElements |
Old South aristocracy
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decline of Southern families ⓘ |
| setIn |
American South
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Yoknapatawpha County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleFeatures |
complex temporal structure
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dense, lyrical prose ⓘ shifts in memory and recollection ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
intergenerational conflict
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race and class in the American South ⓘ social decline ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted |
early 20th-century South
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post-Civil War South ⓘ |
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