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As I Lay Dying in the Machine Age
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The cultural transformation marking the New South was structured by a central dialectic: the dynamic relation between modernization and modernism as discussed by the authors, and various plans to rejuvenate the South after World War I urged the adoption of modernized modes of production, including tenancy and credit reform for farmers; crop diversification; increased commodity consumption; technological improvements, such as electrification and mechanization; cooperatives for equipment and supply purchasing; improved housing; reforestation and erosion work; and the development of small, local industry.Abstract:
The cultural transformation marking the New South was structured by a central dialectic: the dynamic relation between modernization and modernism. Various plans to rejuvenate the South after World War I urged the adoption of modernized modes of production, including tenancy and credit reform for farmers; crop diversification; increased commodity consumption; technological improvements, such as electrification and mechanization; cooperatives for equipment and supply purchasing; improved housing; reforestation and erosion work; and the development of small, local industry.1 Despite significant differences in the panoply of New South programs (for example, differences over the degrees of commitment to northern capital and management techniques, or over the extent to which black fortunesread more
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The Modern Magnetic Animal:As I Lay Dyingand the Uncanny Zoology of Modernism
TL;DR: The main characters in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying as mentioned in this paper use animal metaphors throughout the novel to convey meanings and affects ("my mother is a fish") and "real" animals (horses, cows, mules) are continually announcing their presence through groans, snuffings, lows and cries.
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Matrices Of Disorder: Class, Race, And The Policing Of Normative Southern Femininity In William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, And Requiem For A Nun
TL;DR: In this paper, the author describes a scenario where a woman has to marry a man and her best friend is in sin, and she can't escape from her "SISTERS IN SIN".
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Bourgeois Blues: Class, Whiteness, and Southern Gothic in Early Faulkner and Caldwell
TL;DR: The class struggle, which is always present to a historian influenced by Marx, is a fight for the crude and material things without which no refined and spiritual things could exist as discussed by the authors. But it is not in the form of the spoils which fall to the victor that the latter make their presence known in the class struggle.
Leviathan and Automaton: Technology and Teleology in American Literature
TL;DR: The authors examines the relationship between time and technology in American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing principally on the work of Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison, in the context of various historical and philosophical accounts of technology.
Modern(izing) Burial in Interwar American Literature
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose Dedication and Dedication of Dedication, and propose a Dedication-Based Dedication method for Dedication. But this method is difficult to implement.