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Although Digital
Yoknapatawpha excels

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at the kind of detailed
work that we've

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seen through the map features,
the "Narrative Analysis"

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feature, and the various
"Search" functions,

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it does not short you
on cultural context.

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If we click under the
"Visualizations" tab,

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to "Photographs,"
you'll find hundreds

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of photographs that have
been collected that represent

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the rural early-modern
Mississippi

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world, like the one
that Faulkner represents

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in his fiction.

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Although we do not, of
course, have pictures

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of the actual Bundren house,
you can see houses and cotton

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fields, workers
and farm implements

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that can help you understand the
world from which Faulkner drew

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when crafting his fictions.

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There are links, too, on
the As I Lay Dying map page,

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to audio clips in which
Faulkner proclaims

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his delight at the
ease with which he

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was able to write this novel.

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A closer look at the
manuscript pages,

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by way of a link next to that
one, can help you determine,

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was As I Lay Dying really
written in six weeks,

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as Faulkner claims?

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Materials like these
can help you better

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understand what Faulkner means
when he calls this work a "tour

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de force."

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Lastly, you might consider
building your interpretation

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of the novel from Addie
Bundren's final resting place

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in the Jefferson Cemetery.

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Under "Commentaries"
you'll see a tab

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for "The Cemeteries of
Yoknapatawpha County."

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Selecting As I Lay Dying
from the list below,

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as you did on the main
Digital Yoknapatawpha page,

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will highlight
the two cemeteries

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that Faulkner planted in
his fictional world that

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are relevant in this novel,
although you can also

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see many of the others that
appear in different fictions.

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But here you'll see the
"New Hope Church Cemetery"

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that Addie was expected to
be buried in, close to home,

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but also, of course, the
"Jefferson Cemetery" where

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Addie is buried.

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In addition to connecting Addie
to her family, all the family

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members who are dead, of
course, before she marries Anse

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Bundren, this cemetery is
one of the strongest links

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between As I Lay Dying and
the other texts in Faulkner's

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oeuvre.

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Clicking on this location
in the cemeteries section

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allows you to see all the
other Faulkner characters who

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are buried here, in this
cemetery, in various fictions,

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and the other texts in
which this cemetery appears.

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You can also explore the
larger role of cemeteries

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in the accompanying
essay on this page.

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