福克纳William Faulkner简介.ppt

1、WilliamFaulkner(1897-1962),Oneofthemostinfluentialwritersofthe20thcenturyOneoftheleadingAmericanwritersintheliteraryhistoryoftheUnitedStates.Arepresentativeofthewritersusingstreamofconsciousness.,I.LifeandCareer,BorninAlbanyMississippi;4-5movedtoOxford,Mississippi,modelofhisfictionalJefferson,Yoknap

2、atawphacounty,hisfamilymembersprototypesforhisfictionalcharacters.1925,firstnovelpublished,SoldiersPay军饷1929,twonovels:Sartoris,TheSoundandtheFury1929-1942,mostproductive:2short-storycollections,avolumeofpoetry,11novelsEarly1940s,forgottenbythepublic1945,asecondrisetofame,higherthanthefirst1949,Nobe

3、lPrizeforLiterature,II.MajorWorks,19novelsand4volumesofshortstories(75),twovolumesofpoetryHisworksareregardedasthesummitofSouthernliterature.ThemythicalcountyofYoknapatawpha:15saganovelsandmostofhisshortstories;symbolofhisworks;oneofthemostfamousimaginaryplacesinliterature.,Best-knownworks,TheSounda

4、ndTheFury(1929)喧嚣与骚动AsILayDying(1930)我弥留之际Sanctuary(1931)圣殿LightinAugust(1932)八月之光Absalom,Absalom(1936)押沙龙！押沙龙！GoDown,Moses(1942)去吧，摩西TrilogyoftheSnopesfamilyTheHamlet(1940)村子TheTown(1957)小镇TheMansion(1959)大宅ShortStorycollection:TheUnvanquished,没有被征服的人(1938),Awards,OneofthreefinalistsforthefirstElle

5、ryQueenMysteryMagazineAward(1946)NobelPrizeWinner(1949)AsILayDying（1930）ForhispowerfulandartisticallyuniquecontributiontothemodernAmericannovel.3.PulitzerWinnertwice:AFable,1955TheReivers,19634.NationalBookAwardstwice:CollectedStories，1951AFable，1955,WilliamFaulknerwontheNobelPrizeinLiteraturein1949

6、.,TheSoundandtheFury,Describedthedecayanddownfallofanoldsouthernaristocraticfamily,symbolizingtheoldsocialorder,fromfourdifferentpointsofview:,Part1:Benjy(theyoungestson),afoolPart2:Quentin(theoldestson)，asuicidePart3:Jason(thesecondson)，acynicalmanPart4:Dilsey(themaid),theomniscientview,TheCompsons

7、areoneofseveralprominentnamesinthetownofJefferson,Mississippi.TheirancestorshelpedsettletheareaandsubsequentlydefendeditduringtheCivilWar.Sincethewar,theCompsonshavegraduallyseentheirwealth,land,andstatuscrumbleaway.Mr.Compsonisanalcoholic.Mrs.Compsonisaself-absorbedhypochondriacwhodependsalmostenti

8、relyuponDilseytoraiseherfourchildren.Quentin,theoldestchild,isasensitivebundleofneuroses.Caddy,hissister,isstubborn,butlovingandcompassionate.QuentincommitedsuicideafterCaddyslosinghervirginityandtheirfamilysdecline.Jasonhasbeendifficultandmean-spiritedsincebirthandislargelyspurnedbytheotherchildren

9、.Benjyisseverelymentallydisabled,an“idiot”withnounderstandingoftheconceptsoftimeormorality.,Majorthemes:Hereis“atale/Toldbyanidiot,fullofsoundandfury,/Signifyingnothing.”1.Thespiritualdeteriorationwhichcharacterizesmodernlifestemsfromthelossofloveandwantofemotionalresponse.2.Thenovelalsotellsastoryo

10、fdeteriorationfromthepasttothepresentandtheauthoridealizesthepast.,TechniquesandStyle,1.Characterization:authorialtranscendence2.Afalliblenarrator:streamofconsciousness&interiormonologue3.Multiplenarrators:multiplepointsofview4.Disruptionoftimesequence5.Open-endedness,Style:Wordsareoftenruntogether,withnocapitalizationandnoproperpunctuat