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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1.Introduction
2.Factors leading to Faulkner's postmodernism
2.1 The Southern background
2.2 Faulkner family's background
2.3 Faulkner and postmodernism
3.Postmodernism as a heir of modernism
3.1 A comparison between modernism and postmodemism
3.2 Postmodernism in America
3.3 Three major postmodernist features to be discussed
3.3.1 Indeterminacy
3.3.2 Anti-authority
3.3.3 Meta-fiction
4.Postmodernist features of Absalom, Absalom !
4.1 Introduction to Absalom, Absalom!
4.2 Postmodernist features in Absalom, Absalom!
4.2.1 Indeterminacy in Absalom, Absalom!
4.2.2 Anti-authority in Absalom, Absalom!
4.3 Absalom, Absalom! as a meta-fiction
5.Conclusion
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