16th week William_Faulkner 英美文学赏析 教学课件.ppt

WILLIAM FAULKNER To learn the pleasure of snobbery—male —and retaliation—female. 懂得了势利的乐趣—这是男人， 也懂得了报复的乐趣，这是女人。 General information One of the most influential writers of the 20th century. His reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. However, he was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. Initiator of Southern Renaissance One of the most influential modernist novel writers in the west Most of Faulkners works are set in his native state of Mississippi, and he is considered one of the most important Southern writers, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery OConnor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams. William Faulkners Life born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897 and began to write poetry as a teenager left school in his teens and later studied as a special student at the University of Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Canadian Royal Flying Corps but never fought; the day he graduated from the Flying Corps, the Armistice was signed. The only war injury he received was the result of getting drunk and partying too hard on Armistice Day, wherein he injured his leg. travelled Europe and learned the experimental writing of James Joyce and of the ideas of Sigmund Freud died of a heart attack in Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner received the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel. “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” Explanation of the novels title  The title of the novel is taken from Macbeths soliloquy独白 in act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeares Macbeth: Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayTo the last syllable of recorded time,And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of s