美国文学选读期末论文.docx

美国文学选读期末论文英文学院11级13班1101011302陈欢A Rose for Emily ----William FaulknerIntroduction of the authorWilliam Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist, born in an old Southern family in the town of Oxford, is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Faulkner trained in Canada as a cadet pilot in the Royal Air Force in 1918, attended the University of Mississippi from 1919 to 1920, and lived in Paris briefly in 1925. In 1930, he bought a pre-Civil War mansion, “Rowanoak” in Oxford, Mississippi, where he lived, a virtual recluse, for the rest of his life. As a writer, Faulkner’s primary concern was to probe his own region, the deep South. One of his primary themes is the abuse of black by the Southern whites. As a master of a rhetorical, highly symbolic style, Faulkner was also a brilliant literary technician, making frequent use of convoluted time sequences and of the stream of consciousness technique.Though, his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom! (1936) is often included on similar lists.Summary of the storyA Rose for Emily is Faulkners published short novel in April 1930, which seems as the most famous short fiction among his works. The story happens in a southern town -Jefferson after the civil war in the United States.Emily is a member of a family in the antebellumSouthern aristocracy.After the Civil War, the family has fallen on hard times. She and her father, the last two of the clan, continue to live as if in the past. Neither will consent to a marri