英语专业考研_常耀信版_美国文学简史_课件_William_Faulkner1

literary career: three stages
(1) 1924~1929: training as a writer The Marble Faun 《大理石雕像》
Soldier’s Pay 《士兵的报酬》
Mosquitoes《蚊群》 (2) 1929~1936: most productive and prolific period Sartoris 《萨托里斯》 The Sound and the Fury 《喧哗与骚动》 As I Lay Dying 《在我弥留之际》 Light in August 《八月之光》
爱米丽的玫瑰》、《红 叶》、《夕阳》和《干 燥的九月》
Yoknapatawpha 约克纳帕塔法
Yoknapatawpha County: --- A county in northern Mississippi, the setting for most of William Faulkner’s novels and short stories, and patterned upon Faulkner’s actual home in Lafayette County, Mississippi.
Faulkner in Hollywood
In the university of Virginia campus
William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
--- I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. ---我感觉，这个奖不是授予我这个人，而是授予我的工作， 它是对我呕心沥血、毕生从事的人类精神探索的工作的肯定。 我的这项工作不为名，更不图利，而是要从人类精神的原始 素材里创造出前所未有的东西。
The Southern Renaissance & William Faulkner
The Southern Renaissance
I. Heritage
American southern literature can date back to Edgar Allen Poe, and reach its summit with the appearance of the two “giants” – Faulkner and Wolfe. There are southern women writers – Katherine Anne Porter凯瑟琳.安.波特 , Eudora Welty尤朵拉· 韦尔蒂 , and Flannery O’Connor弗兰纳里· 奥康诺 .
William Faulkner ---One of the greatest writer in 20th century ---initiator of Southern Renaissance ---one of the most influential modernist novel writers in the west
The Southern Renaissance
• The Southern Renaissance is featured in its unique feeling of guilt, failure and poverty as well. • Southern Myths • a. Chevalier heritage(骑士精神的传承) • b. Agrarian virtue（土地的价值） • c. Plantation aristocracy （种植园主） • d. Lost cause （注定要失败的势力） • e. White supremacy （白人至上） • f. Purity of womanhood （女人的纯洁）
Features of Southern literature prior to this renaissance --- focus on historical romances about the "Lost Cause" of the Confederate States of America. --- glorified the heroism of the Confederate army and civilian population during the Civil War and the supposedly "idyllic culture" that existed in the South before the war (known as the Antebellum South).
William Faulkner (1897-1962) William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 and began to write poetry as a teenager. During Wo r l d Wa r I , h e j o i n e d t h e Canadian Royal Flying Corps but never fought; the day he graduated from the Flying Corps, the Armistice was signed. The only war injury he received was the result of getting drunk and partying too hard on Armistice Day, wherein he inju40~end: won recognition in America Go Down, Moses 《去吧，摩西》
His Short story collection
• These 13 (1931), 《这十 三篇》includes many of his most acclaimed (and most frequently anthologized) stories, including "A Rose for Emily," "Red Leaves," "That Evening Sun," and "Dry September."《献给
Three major themes in Southern Renaissance
--- the burden of history in a place where many people still remembered slavery,reconstruction, and a devastating military defeat. --- focus on the South's conservative culture, specifically on how an individual could exist without losing a sense of identity in a region where family, religion, and community were more highly valued than one's personal and social life. --- the South's troubled history in regards to racial issues.

“约克纳帕塔法世系”
这个“世系”以美国南方几个庄园主世家的
荣辱兴衰为主线，表现了一个世纪以来美
国南方社会的历史命运、社会变迁以及各
阶层人物的起伏沉浮，写出了美国南方地
区的典型特征，具有浓厚的乡土气息。
Major Themes of his Works
• 1. history and race • He explains the present by examining the past, by telling the stories of several generations of family to show how history changes life. • He was interested in the relationship between blacks and whites, especially concerned about the problems of the people who were of the mixed race of black and white, unacceptable to both races. • 2. Deterioration • 3. Conflicts between generations, classes, races, man and environment • 4. Horror, violence and the abnormal
Narrative techniques
• Never step between the characters and the reader to explain, but let the characters explain themselves and hinder as little as possible the reader’s direct experience of the work of art. • The most characteristic way of structuring his stories is to fragment the chronological time. Juxtapose the past with the present.