This paper attempts to review and reframe research approaches on William Faulkner’s If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem to elucidate his signature narrative techniques. As one of the leading modernist writers, he is admired as an innovative experimentater o...
This paper attempts to review and reframe research approaches on William Faulkner’s If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem to elucidate his signature narrative techniques. As one of the leading modernist writers, he is admired as an innovative experimentater of narrative styles. His artistic adventure was not limited to literature, inside and outside the US, and expanded to films beyond Hollywood. His narrative experimentations gave insights to modern films as well like a new wave cinema in Europe, especially in France. If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem(also known as The Wild Palms), a collection of juxtaposed and interwoven short stories, is a primal case in point yet has been less discussed, compared to his other celebrated Yoknapatawpha novels. Two narratives, “Wild Palms” and “Old Man” are structured contrapuntally in point-counterpoint manners. It is no wonder that these two discrete narratives combined are often referred to as a novel.