Settings -Characters - Plots

Question of the day

Whatever happened to setting?

Much modern fiction, especially best sellers, seem to be content to add a famous place name here or merely mention one in a catchy pop tune there, calling for some sort of Pavlovian reaction on the part of the reader rather than an imaginative journey into the author‘s imagination. What happened? Where are all the unforgettable settings?

Is any writer creating literary landscapes today that match up to these? Well, the answer is yes but who?

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The Masters

The « photographic framing » of Eudora Welty’s short stories as carefully crafted as her photography, Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County? I suppose it depends on what the novelist’s focus is on, character or plot

Eudora Welty Centennial 2009

http://www.eudorawelty.org/

http://mdah.state.ms.us/welty/

Amazon Com

William Faulkner

http://www.semo.edu/cfs/

http://www.uhb.fr/faulkner/