As I Lay Dying
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As I Lay Dying is a 1930 novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its multiple narrators and stream-of-consciousness style as it follows a Southern family's journey to bury their matriarch.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| As I Lay Dying canonical | 27 |
| As I Lay Dying (2013 film) | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
As I Lay Dying
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surface form:
As I Lay Dying (2013 film)
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| author | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | Salvatore Fiume ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely studied in American literature courses ⓘ |
| filmDirector | James Franco ⓘ |
| followedBy | Sanctuary ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
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modernist novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Cora Tull
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Reverend Whitfield ⓘ Vernon Tull ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
Library of America edition
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Modern Library ⓘ
surface form:
Modern Library edition
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| includedIn |
Yoknapatawpha saga
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surface form:
Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County cycle
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| libraryOfCongressClassification | PS3511.A86 A85 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | considered one of William Faulkner’s major works ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Addie Bundren
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Anse Bundren ⓘ Cash Bundren ⓘ Darl Bundren ⓘ Dewey Dell Bundren ⓘ Jewel Bundren ⓘ Vardaman Bundren ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
multiple narrators
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stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
each chapter is narrated by a different character voice
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innovative use of interior monologue ⓘ |
| numberOfNarrators | 15 ⓘ |
| oclcNumber | 413268 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The Bundren family undertakes a difficult journey to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury their matriarch Addie Bundren. ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Sound and the Fury ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| settingRegion |
Southern United States
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surface form:
American South
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| structure | 59 chapters ⓘ |
| theme |
death and mortality
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family and obligation ⓘ isolation and communication ⓘ poverty and hardship in the rural South ⓘ |
| timeOfWriting | 1929 ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | derived from a line in Homer’s Odyssey (via an epigraph from Conrad Aiken) ⓘ |
| writingPeriod | written in about six weeks ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
As I Lay Dying (2013 film)
subject surface form:
Yocona River
subject surface form:
Yoknapatawpha River
subject surface form:
Library of America edition of As I Lay Dying