Chapter 15 The Southern Renaissance.ppt

1、2020/8/25,1,Chapter 15 The Southern Renaissance; William Faulkner,2020/8/25,2,I. The Southern Renaissance,1. Southern writers all root their works in the south to achieve universal applicability. 2. Writers: William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers, Flannery OConno

2、r, William Styron and Percy Walker.,2020/8/25,3,II.WilliamFaulkner(1897-1962),1. General Comment: William Faulkner ranks with Ernest Hemingway as one of the leading authors of the 20th Century.Faulkner, like Robert Frost, was a regionalist,writing about the scenes and people he knew best.Faulkners r

3、egion was the Deep South, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction. He invented a county:Yoknapatawpha, and a town in his imagination, very similar to his own part of Mississippi.,2020/8/25,4,Yoknapatawpha County,He wrote about the society in the South by inventing families whic

4、h represented different social forces: the old, decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of “poor whites”; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.Most of his stories take place in this imaginary Yoknapatawpha county, and concern members of the same families at different

5、times in history.,2020/8/25,5,2.His Style,His books are sometimes difficult to read, and need close study by the reader. His works have complex plots. The hero of one story may appear as minor character in another. Stream-of-consciousness Multiple point of view.,2020/8/25,6,3. Major Works,Soldiers P

6、ay and Mosquitoes(1927), the first two novels. 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),2020/8/25,7,4.The Sound and Fury,A. the story B. the characters Caddy: capable of love, lost her virgin

7、ity Benjy: an idiot Quentin: lives in the ideal world, destroyed himself, Jason: empty life Dilsey: a black were fully in love support of the family.,2020/8/25,8,5. Light in August,A. the characters: Joe Christmas, Gail Hightower, and Joanna Burden, Lena Grove. B. The Story (P240, 242) C. Read the selected parts of the novel.,2020/8/25,9,6. As I Lay Dying,A. The story B. The Characters: Addie Bun