昝晨陶子杨娟WilliamFaulkner、ErnestHemingway、SherwoodAnderson精选.ppt

Plot Introduction It tells a story of deterioration from the past to the present. The past is idealized to form a striking contrast with the loveless present. There is in the past an acute feeling of nostalgia toward the happy past. For example, in Quentin’s section. A miserable creature in the modern world, Quentin frequently casts a backward glance at the time of his childhood when life was innocent, romantic, and secure. His suicide offers an example of a complete negation of the present. In a sense, Quentin’s value system may represent Faulkner’s own idea of an iseal way of life. Features of His Works a. complex plot b. stream of consciousness c. characterization: he was able to probe into the psychology of characters d. violation of chronology（年表，年代学） e. courtroom rhetoric: formal language f. multiple narrations and time shifts within narrative., circular form g. long and embedded sentences, full of interruptions， complex syntax（ most noticeable feature ） h. “Anti-hero”: weak, vulnerable（有弱点的） (true people in modern society) Modernism： Faulkner portrays this story of conflict through a modernist aesthetic（现代美学），through experimentation with: Consciousness: Faulkner portrays the limited and often conflicted internal thoughts of the boy Sarty Time: The narrator jumps backward and forward in time, and suspends time Space: Faulkner portrays reality through geometric（几何学）, two-dimensional（二维的） shapes. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Prize One of three finalists for the first?Ellery Queen?Mystery Magazine?Award(1946). 2. Nobel Prize Winner(1949) 3. Pulitzer Winner twice: A Fable(1955) The Reivers(1963) 4. National Book Awards twice: Collected Stories(1951) A Fable(1955) 5. O. Henry Short Story Prize. Themes: 1 History and race He explains the present by examining the past, by telling the stories of several generations of family to show how history changes life. He was interested in the relationship between blacks and whites, especially conc