福克纳作品精选.ppt

* William Faulkner (1897-1962)福克纳  Contents 1.Southern Literature 2. Major Works 3.Artistic Techniques 4.Style 5.Local Colorism? Southern Literature The South: Virginia Kentucky North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Tennessee Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas Texas Southern renaissance It was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers By 1920’s, a literary movement known as the Southern Renaissance emerged. There was a domination of southern literature for at least 4 decades in America literature. 20世纪的二三十年代，南方呈现出文化、文学上的空前繁荣，产生了一大批杰出的作家,诗人、戏剧家、学者、文学理论家和批评家，甚至连风靡世界的爵士音乐也产生于此时的南方。 Southern renaissance Representatives: William Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren Characteristics of southern literature Southern literature can be defined as literature about the South, written by authors who were raised in the South. --- Characteristics of southern literature are: 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 actually speaks. Many books also describe the historical importance of the southern town. Major themes of Southern Literature: The belief in the heroism and morality of the Souths Lost Cause was a driving force in Southern literature between the Civil War and WWI. The Southern Renaissance changed this by addressing three major themes in their works: 1)the burden of history. 2) the Souths conservative culture, 3)the Souths troubled history Family, history, the land, religion, guilt, identity, death, the search for the redemptive meaning of life William Faulkner I. Major Works 19 novels and 4 volu