The Village
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"The Village" is a novel by William Faulkner that explores life, class, and moral decay in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County through the rise of the ambitious Flem Snopes.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Village canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToCanon | American literature ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
power and money
ⓘ
respectability versus corruption ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
life in a small Southern town
ⓘ
rise of a ruthless businessman ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Eula Varner Snopes
NERFINISHED
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Flem Snopes NERFINISHED ⓘ Gavin Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ Ratliff NERFINISHED ⓘ V. K. Ratliff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalCounty | Yoknapatawpha County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Mansion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | The Hamlet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | prose fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
modernist fiction ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | multiple viewpoints ⓘ |
| hasPrequel | The Hamlet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSequel | The Mansion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American modernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Flem Snopes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | rise of Flem Snopes ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
complex chronology
ⓘ
shifting perspectives ⓘ |
| partOf | Snopes trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1952 ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| series | Snopes trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early 20th-century American South ⓘ |
| setting |
Jefferson, Mississippi (fictional town)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yoknapatawpha County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
ambition
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corruption ⓘ economic change in the American South ⓘ moral decay ⓘ small-town life ⓘ social class ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfAction | several decades in Jefferson ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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