Virginia Hlavsa
The Mirror, the Lamp, and the Bed: Faulkner and the Modernists
Duke University Press in On Faulkner: The Best of American Literature, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Mar.,1985), pp. 23-43.
Although Faulkner is frequently called a Romantic, it is time that he be placed where he belongs, among the Modernists. In The Mirror and the Lamp, M. H. Abrams distinguishes between the Neo-classical, eighteenth-century artist as a "perceiving" mind, reflecting the external world like a mirror, and the Romantic, nineteenth-century artist as a "projecting" mind, casting a self image out onto the world like a lamp…