The Search for Time in Yoknapatawpha County

Setting is an important aspect of every story, movie, poetry and novel. By adding time, place, atmosphere to the work, the setting will enhance various aspects of the story. Please imagine that Harry Potter is different in Mahou 's Hogwarts Kingdom, not in South Africa. With this setting, the tone of the narrator will also improve by adding effects such as weather change, time, yearly time, story period and so on. Furthermore, in William Faulkner's short story "Rose for Emily", the background is the root of conflict.

Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional county created by American writer William Faulkner based on the town of Lafayette, Mississippi, Oxfordshire State, Mississippi. Faulkner often calls Yeonna Patafa County "my counterfeit county." Starting with Sartorius, Faulkner is planning to set up three other novels in the county. The name "Yoknapatawpha" comes from the real Native American name found on Jefferson's old map. County In 1936, Faulkner drew a map of the imaginary counties depicting various scenes of novels and short stories. And he first posted the map on Absalom of Absalom. It is inside. Creating this mythical county is one of the greatest accomplishments in contemporary literary history.

According to WILLIAM FAULKNER, "My own homemade small stamps" and "My own universe", Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi State and its county town Jefferson provide a wonderful scene to many of Faulkner's novels and short stories . . Yoknapatawpha County is home to Faulkner's home Oxford in Lafayette County, Mississippi, and is a place where various people live from producers and their descendants to Indians, farmers, and blacks. In the groundbreaking introduction of Portable Faulkner in 1946, critic Malcolm Cowley believed that this legend of Yoknapatawpha was the real achievement of Faulkner, and that sum totaled any personal story that made it It was stronger than.

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William Faulkner's York Napatafa County is a wonderful place as Jefferson's county seat location. Yoknapatawpha County covers an area of ​​2,400 square miles and has a population of 15,611 people. Jefferson has real prisons, town plazas, old houses, places for ancient French people, and even railroads. Faulkner's "Yoknapatawpha County" is actually Lafayette County and "Jefferson" is actually Oxford. The Faulkner family lived there before the civil war. This is the place where most of his story takes place. He thought about family history and his own personal history; he used these two to write his story. (American writer, 54)