WilliamFaulknerppt

1、william faulkner sept 25, 1897 july 6, 1962 childhood born in new albany, mississippi in 1897. moved to oxford, mississippi (prototype（原型）（原型） of yoknapatawpha约克纳帕塔法郡约克纳帕塔法郡, the setting of most of his works) at the age of 5. he grew up as the eldest son of four brothers. he hoped to aspire to be li

2、ke his great-grandfather, a writer as well. as a young man 1919,university of mississippi, after three semesters he dropped out. he had always dreamed of becoming a pilot in the army however was declined because of his height. ( 55”) he later became a member of the royal canadian air force. he remai

3、ned in this canadian air force through world war i but never saw flying time in combat. adulthood for twenty years he worked in hollywood writing several screen plays like today we live (1933) and land of the pharaos (1955) and producing many novels and short stories. he later worked in hollywood wi

4、th howard hawks, a movie director who became a friend of him. faulkner in hollywood:1930s in the university of virginia campus the end of his life faulkner died july 6th, 1962 after suffering from a coronary occlusion (心肌梗塞心肌梗塞) up to his death he worked as a writer-in-residence at the university of

5、 virginia in 1957. the united states postal service issued a first-class 22-cent stamp commemorating his life and stint as a postmaster. major works: voxford, poems - prose v1924 the mirble faun 云石牧神云石牧神 v1925, first novel soldiers pay 军饷军饷 vthe sound and the fury 喧嚣与骚动喧嚣与骚动 v1930 as i lay dying 我弥留

6、之际我弥留之际 v1931 sanctuary 圣殿圣殿 v1932 light in august 八月之光八月之光 v1936 absalom, absalom! 押沙龙！押沙龙！押沙龙！押沙龙！ v1942 go down, moses 去吧，摩西去吧，摩西 v1948: intruder in the dust 坟墓的闯入者坟墓的闯入者 v1946:the portable faulkner袖珍本福克纳选袖珍本福克纳选 集集 va rose for emily献给艾米丽的玫瑰献给艾米丽的玫瑰 vtrilogy of the snopes family the hamlet (1940)

7、 村子村子 the town (1957) 小镇小镇 the mansion (1959)大宅大宅 vshort story collection: the unvanquished没有被征服的人没有被征服的人(1938) awards 1. one of three finalists for the first ellery queen mystery magazine award(1946). 2. nobel prize winner(1949) 3. pulitzer winner twice: a fable(1955) the reivers(1963) 4. national

8、book awards twice: collected stories(1951) a fable(1955) 5. o. henry short story prize. william faulkner won the nobel prize in literature in 1949. themes: 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 ch

9、anges 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(堕落）堕落） 3 conflicts between generations, classes, races, man and environment 4

10、horror, violence and the abnormal features of his works a. complex plot b. stream of consciousness c. characterization: he was able to probe into the psychology of characters d. violation of chronology（年表，年（年表，年 代学）代学） e. courtroom rhetoric: formal language f. multiple narrations and time shifts wit

11、hin narrative., circular form g. long and embedded sentences, full of interruptions， complex syntax （ most noticeable feature ） h. “anti-hero”: weak, vulnerable（有弱 点的） (true people in modern society) fame: an american novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of mississippi regarded as

12、one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century one of the leading american writers in the literary history of the united states. a representative of the writers using stream of consciousness the sound and the fury major themes: 1. the spiritual deterioration which characterizes modern

13、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 (243-245) a. characterization: authorial transcendence the author tries to withdraw from making concl

14、usion and judgment, letting the characters explain themselves and hindering as little as possible the readers direct experience of the work of art. b. a fallible narrator: stream of consciousness & interior monologue telling a story by recording the thought of one character, describing the mental an

15、d emotional reactions of characters to external events, rather than the events themselves, without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence c. multiple narrators: multiple points of view showing within the same story different reactions to the same person or the same situation, giving the story a circular form rather than a linear structure d. disruption of time sequence e. open-endedness style: words are often run to