william faulkner.ppt

1、William Faulkner (1897-1962),the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed- love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice - Speech on Nobel Prize Awarding ceremony in Staockholm,the leading figure of Southern Renaissance; A most distinguished American mode

2、rnist writer,Life and sources for his writing,born in and greatly influenced by Mississippi, the Southern America. Mainly brought up in the town Oxford, he was fascinated with Southern history and culture. His family history is another reservoir for his literary creation.,“my own little postage stam

3、p of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it and that by sublimating the actual into the apocryphal I would have complete liberty to use whatever talent I might have to its absolute top. I created a cosmos of my own.” the postage stamp: Oxford the Je

4、fferson town, the Yoknapatawpha county,Yoknapatawpha,a fictional county, with the name derived from Chickasaw language, meaning “split land”, where his novels are set.,His main works,Soldiers Pay Mosquitoes (1927) The Sound and the Fury (1929) - the mature work As I Lay Dying (1930) Sanctuary (1931)

5、 -a shock Light in August (1932) Absalom, Absalom (1936) Go Down, Moses (1942) Trilogy of the Snopes (1950s) The Town; The Mansion; The Hamlet,The Sound and Fury,The title is derived from Shakespeares Macbeth: Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd

6、then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing. characters: Caddy, Benjy, Quentin, Jason,Literary feature,1. ambiguous attitude toward the “glorious” southern history. censure of their being obstinate and injustice to African Americans and a hint for t

7、heir dignity which inspires wonder and admiration.,2. Fascination with avant-garde writing techniques the adoption of stream-of-consciousness; reset the story in his original fashion; one fragment runs into another without proper notice,3. a difficult writer intricate storyline complicated and distorted characters the blurred truth a wide variety of linguistic styles; complex sentence structure unpleasant themes: sexuality, violent racial discrimination, stunning emotional passion.,Text Interpretation,Seminar: have a group discussion a