As I Lay Dying

by William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying: Genre 1 key example

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As I Lay Dying is a Modernist novel that subverts traditional formal conventions from older works, and paints an impressionistic and experiential picture of the story for readers. At the same time, the novel is a Southern Gothic work that concerns itself with the American South's past and future as a region, often using grotesque or supernatural elements to explore this idea.