Germana, Michael Joseph2014-03-142014-03-141999-04-14etd-041899-130309http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31763This paper explores the relationality between Modernism and Postmodernism as well as between literature and theory by examining the works of two writers: master novelist William Faulkner, and high priest of Postmodernism, Jean Baudrillard. Specifically, this paper examines Faulkner's eleventh novel—the oft-neglected If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem—as a proto-postmodern text which, when examined by the light of Baudrillard's theory of simulacra and simulations, informs the transition from Modernism to Postmodernism. This paper treats each author's work as a lens through which to view the other. The result is both a re-vision of Faulkner's social philosophy and a re-examination of the epistemic break that separates Faulkner's philosophy from that of Baudrillard.enIn CopyrightCritical TheoryFaulknerModernismBaudrillardPostmodernismThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-041899-130309/