Southern Renaissance(南方文艺复兴)

1、The Southern Renaissance,CONTENTS,background,For a long time of the Civil War the agricultural south remained sunordinate to industrial north, and there existed a glaring gap in culture and way of thinking between the two parts of country. Measures were taken to develop the south, economic improveme

2、nts slowly came about. Although the south remained conservative, there appeared a visible sign of change in literature, and there were efforts to reassess the past and the present and do self-searching.,formation,Since the beginning of the 20th century, there have emerged a few generations of southe

3、rn writers who have all tried to root their works in the south with a view to achieving universal applicability.,Writers: William Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren, and Zora Neale Hurston, among others.,The F

4、ugitives（逃亡者派）,The group included John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and others.,The start of the southern Renaissance is often traced back to the activities of “The Fugitives ”, a group of poets and critics who were based at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenne

5、ssee, just after the first world war.,William Faulkner,William Faulkner,introduction,William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels

6、 and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.,Faulkner was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel 1949年诺贝尔文学奖得主，获奖原因为“因为他对当代美国小说做出了强有力的和艺术上无与伦比的贡献”。,Yoknapatawpha County,Yoknapatawpha County is a

7、fictional county created by William Faulkner, based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford, Mississippi，where he spent most of his life. As well as over 50 of his stories in Yoknapatawpha County。,jknptf,Life and Career,Writing Style,Faulkner was known for h

8、is experimental style with meticulous attention to diction and cadence. Faulkner made frequent use of stream of consciousness in his writing, and wrote often highly emotional, subtle, cerebral, complex, and sometimes Gothic or grotesque stories of a wide variety of characters.,Major Works,Soldiers P

9、ay and Mosquitoes(1927) Sartoris(1929) The Sound and Fury(1929) As I Lay Dying(1930) Sanctuary(1931) Light in August(1932) Absalom, Absalom(1936) Go Down, Moses(1942),The Sound and Fury,The novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the course of the 30 years, the