william faulkner

1、BackgroundAchievementsLife& CareerWorks a. The importance of family, sense of community, and religion. b. The importance of time and place, exploration of the past, sense of human limitation (moral dilemma). c. The use of southern voice and dialect. Most of the novels are written as a Southerner

2、 actually speaks. Many books also describe the historical importance of the southern town. Three themes of Southern LiteratureThe first was the burden of history in a place where many people still remembered slavery, Reconstruction (1865-1877), and a devastating（毁灭性的）（毁灭性的） military defeat. The seco

3、nd theme was to focus on the Souths 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 ones personal and social life. The final theme that the writers approached was the

4、 Souths troubled（动乱的）（动乱的） history in regards to racial issues. By 1920s, a literary movement known as the Southern Renaissance emerged. There was 4 decades in American Literature.Southern literature can date back to Edgar Allen Poe, and reach its peak with the appearance of the two “giants” William

5、 Faulkner and Thomas Wolfe. During World War I, he joined the 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, where in he injure

6、d his leg. After that he studied in Mississippi University for a year and did various jobs.Notable awards:Nobel Prize in Literature 1950Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1955, 1963Literary Career - A county in northern Mississippi, the setting for most of William Faulkners novels and short stories, and pat

7、terned upon Faulkners actual home in Lafayette County, Mississippi.The Early Period(1924-1929)The Marble Faun(1924)大理石牧神大理石牧神The first book of poemsSoldiers Pay(1936)士兵的报酬士兵的报酬The first novelMosquitoes(1927)蚊群蚊群Sartoris(1929)沙多里斯沙多里斯The first book of Yoknapatawpha SagaThe Sound and the Fury(1929)喧嚣与

8、骚动喧嚣与骚动The Most Celebrated Novel The Second Major Creative Period(1930-1942)Absalom, Absalom!(1936)押沙龙，押沙龙！押沙龙，押沙龙！Go Down,Moses(1942)去吧，摩西去吧，摩西A collection of 7 storiesThe Portable Faulkner(1946)袖珍本福克纳选集袖珍本福克纳选集Indifference HostilityPessimism ViolenceThe Third Period(1942-1962)Requiem for a Nun（195

9、1） 修女安魂曲修女安魂曲 Intruder in the Dust（1948） 闯入坟墓的人闯入坟墓的人 A Fable(1954) 寓言寓言Won Pulitzer Prize For twenty years he worked in Hollywood writing several screen plays like Today We Live (1933) and Land of the Pharaohs (1955) and producing many novels and short stories.He later worked in Hollywood with Howa

10、rd Hawks, a movie director who became a friend of him.Faulkner in Hollywood:1930sIn the university of Virginia campuswriting techniques Yoknapatawpha county (约克纳帕塔法世系）约克纳帕塔法世系） open-endedness (开放式结尾开放式结尾) Stream of consciousness (意识流意识流) multiple points of view (多角度叙事多角度叙事)regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth