安徽三联学院外语学院美国文学课件Chapter 14 Southern Renaissance and William Faulkner.ppt

Southern Renaissance and William Faulkner Content Ⅰ. Southern Renaissance Ⅱ. William Faulkner Ⅲ. The Sound and the Fury Ⅳ. Barn Burning Ⅰ. Southern Renaissance 1. The South 2. Southern Literature 3. The Southern Renaissance Ⅰ. Southern Renaissance The South (Geographic Range) The Deep South: South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana The Extended South: including also the border states such as Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Arkansas and Texas a. Chevalier heritage(骑士精神的传承) 　b. Agrarian virtue（土地的价值） 　c. Plantation aristocracy （种植园主） 　d. Lost cause （注定要失败的势力） 　e. White supremacy （白人至上） 　f. Purity of womanhood （女人的纯洁） Southern Myths Definition Southern Literature refers to literature about the south of United State or written by southern writers who have all tried to root their works in the south to achieve universal applicability. American southern literature reaches its summit with the appearance of the two “giants” – Faulkner and Wolfe. There are southern women writers – Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O’Connor. A focus on a common Southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one’s role within it, a sense of justice, the regions dominant religion, issues of racial tension, land and the promise it brings, a sense of social class and place, and the use of the Southern dialect. Characteristics The Southern Renaissance was the revival of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, Erskine Caldwell, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, and Robert Penn Warren etc. Representatives 1. The Burden of History: slavery, reconstruction, devastating military defeat. 2. Conservative Culture: family, religion, and community were more highly valued than ones personal and social life. 3. Racial Issues  T