Editing William Faulkner (section)

===Themes and analysis===
Faulkner was against forced [[desegregation]] and argued that [[civil rights activist]]s should "go slow" and be more moderate in their positions.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Cep |first1=Casey |title=William Faulkner's Demons |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/william-faulkners-demons |magazine=The New Yorker |date=November 23, 2020 |access-date=11 June 2024}}</ref> The essayist and novelist [[James Baldwin]] was highly critical of his views around integration.<ref>{{cite web|first=Casey|last=Cep|date=November 23, 2020|title=William Faulkner's Demons|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/william-faulkners-demons|access-date=February 12, 2021|archive-date=January 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122111928/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/william-faulkners-demons|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Ralph Ellison]] said that "No one in American fiction has done so much to explore the types of Negro personality as has Faulkner."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mikics |first=David |date=August 3, 2021 |title=Ellison's Invisible Man and Faulkner's Light in August: An Argument in Black and White |url=https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article-abstract/23/2/194/6337219 |journal=[[Literary Imagination]] |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=194–201|doi=10.1093/litimag/imab027 }}</ref>

The [[New Criticism|New Critics]] became interested in Faulkner's work, with [[Cleanth Brooks]] writing ''The Yoknapatawpha Country'' and Michael Millgate writing ''The Achievement of William Faulkner''. Since then, critics have looked at Faulkner's work using other approaches, such as feminist and psychoanalytic methods.<ref name="Faulkner 2004" /><ref>Wagner-Martin, Linda. ''William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism''. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2002 {{ISBN|0-87013-612-7}}.</ref> Faulkner's works have been placed within the literary traditions of [[Literary modernism|modernism]] and the [[Southern Renaissance]].<ref>Abadie, Ann J. and Doreen Fowler. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gW-Drav6CUoC ''Faulkner and the Southern Renaissance''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306003843/https://books.google.com/books?id=gW-Drav6CUoC&printsec=frontcover |date=March 6, 2017 }}. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1982 {{ISBN|1-60473-201-6}}.</ref>

French philosopher [[Albert Camus]] wrote that Faulkner successfully imported classical [[tragedy]] into the 20th century through his "interminably unwinding spiral of words and sentences that conducts the speaker to the abyss of sufferings buried in the past".<ref>[[#Camus|Camus (1970)]], pp. 313–314.</ref>