Literature of the American South: William Faulkner

From PBS.org.

Examines the topography of the city of Jefferson and Yoknapatawpha county in relation to 'The Sound and the Fury' and 'Absalom, Absalom'.

Explores the language and literary attention as used by Faulkner to shape the city of Jefferson and the county of Yoknapatawpha.

Examines the concept of class in Faulkner's writings.

Abstract The overwhelming sense by readers is that Yoknapatawpha is a place, a place superimposed on or extracted from but intimately related to Lafayette County, the actual place in Northern Mississippi. Here, Urgo discusses the map of a deeper existence in the Yoknapatawpha project.