... 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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... of writing in which the narrative consists of the unedited thoughts of one of the characters, through whose mind readers experience the story. William Faulkner stream of consciousness technique is central to his 1929 masterpiece, The Sound and the Fury. The story line repeats several times, but from different perspectives. When authors told their stories in a first person point of view the grammatical ... ...

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