... these unique elements this composition illustrates few of the differences and similarities in Barn Burning and Soldier's House. William Meyer in his essay: Faulkner, Hemingway, et al.: The Emersonian Test of American Authorship, argues that it is impossible to be a great Southern writer and a ... or epistemology as visual, not verbal or vocal. Faulkner, on the other hand, sticks to his innate and obsessive Southern lyricism, promoting "aurality" over vision in such great novels as The Sound and The Fury and Light in August. However, he concludes that ... the genuine American mode of wri...

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... once standardized by previous literary figures, and toward subjectivity. While other writers of the era conveyed modern ideas in form and style, such as William Faulkner's multiple narrators and stream-of-consciousness format displayed in The Sound and Fury, Thomas and Auden radiated modern thought through their ideas and subject matter. Both Thomas's "The Hunchback in the Park" and Auden's "Musee des Beaux ... , relentlessly make a mockery of the hunchback. Thomas writes, "And Mister they called Hey mister the truant boys from the town running when he had heard them clearly on out of so...

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