![]() ![]() It is considered probable that Faulkner knew the vegetation myths of Frazer and there can be hardly any doubt that Faulkner knew The Wasteland and the discussion of its sources. ![]() The debate of how much exactly Faulkner drew upon Eliot is held ever since the first book of Faulkner was published. This was especially important in a time of general post-war disillusionment which, of course, affected deeply the literary conventions and styles of the time. Like Eliot, he used the old myths in his narrations as an underlying human structure which yielded depth and meaning to his work and a certain kind of continuity of basic human virtues and vices. Eliot had established as ‘the mythological method’. It is a well-known fact that Faulkner in his work made extensive use of what T.S. The literal - symbolic level of the relation ![]()
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