The Novel, Modernism and Technique in William Faulkner's ‘The Sound and the Fury'

Abstract

Previously, aspects of prose fictional writing had been in existence as narratives, essays journal, memoirs and diaries. In the 19^th century the novel became a distinguished and stable genre. In its conventional form, it is a continuous narrative of storytelling mode with defined plot, developed characters and realistic setting and events the novel has many forms and this has rendered It flexible to experimentation. As a historical phenomenon the form of the novel has been affected by the events of the twentieth century which gave rise to the widespread modernist movement. The paper uses a typical Modernist novel; The Sound and The Fury to examine the intensity of technical experimentation with form and content in the novel as is characteristic of modernist writing.