Yoknapatawpha cycle

…Faulkner set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha county, Mississippi. It follows the Bundrens, a “poor white” Southern family, as they make their slow and difficult way to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury the family matriarch’s decaying corpse. The novel famously employs a stream-of-consciousness technique, a style pioneered by Faulkner and other Modernist…

…imagined world of Jefferson and Yoknapatawpha County—based partly on Ripley but chiefly on Oxford and Lafayette county and characterized by frequent recurrences of the same characters, places, and themes—which Faulkner was to use as the setting for so many subsequent novels and stories.

…series set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha county, Miss., U.S.

The great Yoknapatawpha cycle of William Faulkner, a classic of 20th-century American literature set in an imaginary county in Mississippi, belongs to the category as much as the once-popular confections about Sussex that were written about the same time by the English novelist Sheila Kaye-Smith. Many novelists,…

The mythical county of Yoknapatawpha and the generations of its people were created by William Faulkner in a celebrated series of novels. Ranked among the highest attainments in both American and world literature, Faulkner’s writing earned him the Nobel Prize in 1949. Other Mississippians of international literary renown in…

…to prominence in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Flem’s coldly calculated vengeance on his wife, Eula, and her lover culminates in Eula’s suicide and Flem’s rise to power in Jefferson, the county seat. Because Flem longs for respect as well as money, he turns against the clan of shiftless Snopes cousins…