WilliamFaulkner福克纳.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,*,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,William_Faulkner_(1897-1962)福克纳,William Faulkner,William Faulkner,(1897-1962),was an American writer of novels,short stories,poetry and occasional screenplays.,Southern Literature,The South:,the Deep South,:South Carolina,Georgia,Florida,Alabama,Tennessee,Mississippi,Louisiana,the extended South,including also the border states such as,Kentucky,Maryland,North Carolina,Virginia,West Virginia,Arkansas and Texas,American Southern Literature,一般是指美国南北战争后出现在南方的一种严肃而带有悲剧性的文学,它也被称为南方文艺复兴(Southern Renaissance),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,Eudora Welty,and Flannery OConnor.,Characteristics,the aristocratic lifestyle on the Plantation;in defense of or criticizing the slavery;the superiority of the White;a nostalgic feeling to the prosperous past.,南方作家重视家庭、宗教和传统道德观念,对南方的过去和现在有着深刻思考,重农轻工,对工业文明有强烈疏远和排斥.,Southern Renaissance,In the 20th century,southern literature,became not only distinguished but very diverse,yet it has often laid stress on regionalism.,By 1920s,a literary movement known as the Southern Renaissance emerged.There was a domination of southern lit.for at least 4 decades in American Literature.,Southern renaissance,Representatives:,Ellen Glasgow,艾伦格拉司戈,Kate Chopin凯特肖邦:precursors to the movement,William Faulkner,威廉福克纳,Katherine Anne Porter,凯瑟琳安波特,Eudora Welt,尤多拉韦尔蒂,Carson McCullers,艾伦格拉司戈,Tennessee Williams,威廉斯泰伦,Flannery OConner,弗兰纳丽奥康纳,Thomas Wolfe托马斯沃尔夫.,Yoknapatawpha County,is a fictional county created by William Faulkner,based upon and inspired by Lafayette County,Mississippi and its county seat of Oxford,Mississippi.Faulkner would often refer to Yoknapatawpha County as my apocryphal county.,The Yoknapatawpha saga(“约克纳帕托法世系”小说),the rise and fall of southern aristocratic families:The Compsons in,The sounds and the fury.,Life and Career,New Albany,Mississippi(1897)(with a prominent great-grandfather,Colonel William Faklner),Oxford,Lafayette County(1902),Royal Flying Corps in Canada(1918),The help of Philip Stone and Sherwood Anderson,Life and Career,1925,first novel published,Soldiers Pay,军饷,1929,two novels,:Sartoris,The Sound and the Fury,1929-1942,most productive:2 short-story collections,a volume of poetry,11 novels,Early 1940s,forgotten by the public,1945,a second rise to fame,higher than the first,1950,Nobel Prize for Lit.,Major Works,19 novels and 4 volumes of short stories(75),two volumes of poetry.,William Faulkners works are regarded as the summit of Southern literature.,The Sound and The Fury,(1929),喧嚣与骚动,Describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family,symbolizing the old social order.,As I Lay Dying,(1930),我弥留之际,Sanctuary,(1931),圣殿,Light in August,(1932),八月之光,Absalom,Absalom,(1936,),押沙龙！押沙龙！,Set in early 19th-cent.Jefferson,shows the tragic downfall of the dynastic desires of the planter Colonel Sutpen,Go Down,Moses,(1942),去吧，摩西,Short stories,His first short story collection,These 13,(1931),includes many of his most acclaimed(and most frequently stories,including A Rose for Emily,Red Leaves,That Evening Sun,and Dry September.,Poetry,Faulkner wrote two volumes of poetry which were published in small printings,The Marble Faun,大理石牧神,(1924)and A Green Bough,绿枝,(1933),“Lifes but a walking shadow,a poor player,/,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,/,And then is heard no more;it is a tale/,Told by an idiot,full of,sound and fury,/,Signifying nothing”.(,Macbeth,),Major themes:,Here is“a tale/Told by an idiot,full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing.”人生如痴人说梦，充满着喧哗与骚动，却没有任何意义,1.The spiritual deterioration which characterizes modern life stems from the loss of love and want of emotional response.,2.The story also tells a story of deterioration from the past to the present and the author idealizes the past.,Style and Techniques,A.stream of consciousness&interior monologue,B.Multiple narrators:multiple points of view,C.Disruption of time sequence,D.Open-endedness,Awards,One of three finalists for the first,Ellery QueenMystery Magazine,Award(1946).,昆恩推理杂志,Nobel Prize Winner(1949),Pulitzer,普利策奖,Winner twice:,A Fable,(1955,),The Reivers(,1963),4.National Book Awards twice:,Collected Stories,(1951),A Fable,(1955,),Thank you!,