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William Faulkner,Sept 25,1897 July 6,1962,Childhood,Born in New Albany,Mississippi in 1897.Moved to Oxford,Mississippi(prototype（原型）of Yoknapatawpha约克纳帕塔法郡,the setting of most of his works)at the age of 5.He grew up as the eldest son of four brothers.He hoped to aspire to be like his great-grandfather,a writer as well.,As a Young Man,1919,university of Mississippi,after three semesters he dropped out.He had always dreamed of becoming a pilot in the army however was declined because of his height.(55”)He later became a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force.He remained in this Canadian Air Force through World War I but never saw flying time in combat.,Adulthood,For twenty years he worked in Hollywood writing several screen plays like Today We Live(1933)and Land of the Pharaos(1955)and producing many novels and short stories.He later worked in Hollywood with Howard Hawks,a movie director who became a friend of him.,Faulkner in Hollywood:1930s,In the university of Virginia campus,The End of His Life,Faulkner died July 6th,1962 after suffering from a coronary occlusion(心肌梗塞)Up to his death he worked as a Writer-In-Residence at the University of Virginia in 1957.The United States Postal Service issued a first-class 22-cent stamp commemorating his life and stint as a postmaster.,Major Works:,Oxford,poems-prose1924 The Mirble Faun 云石牧神1925,first novel Soldiers Pay 军饷The Sound and the Fury 喧嚣与骚动1930 As I lay Dying 我弥留之际1931 Sanctuary 圣殿1932 Light in August 八月之光1936 Absalom,Absalom!押沙龙！押沙龙！,1942 Go Down,Moses 去吧，摩西1948:Intruder in the Dust 坟墓的闯入者 1946:The Portable Faulkner袖珍本福克纳选集A Rose for Emily献给艾米丽的玫瑰Trilogy of the Snopes familyThe Hamlet(1940)村子The Town(1957)小镇The Mansion(1959)大宅Short Story collection:The Unvanquished没有被征服的人(1938),Awards,One of three finalists for the firstEllery QueenMystery MagazineAward(1946).Nobel Prize Winner(1949)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.,William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.,Themes:1 History and raceHe 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 concerned about the problems of the people who were of the mixed race of black and white,unacceptable to both races.2 Deterioration(堕落）3 Conflicts between generations,classes,races,man and environment4 Horror,violence and the abnormal,Features of His Works,plex plotb.stream of consciousnessc.characterization:he was able to probe into the psychology of charactersd.violation of chronology（年表，年代学）e.courtroom rhetoric:formal language,f.multiple narrations and time shifts within narrative.,circular formg.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),Fame:,an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippiregarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth centuryone of the leading American writers in the literary history of the United States.a representative of the writers using stream of consciousness,The Sound and the Fury,Major themes:,1.The spiritual deterioration which characterizes modern life stems from the loss of love and want of emotional response.2.The story also tells a story of deterioration from the past to the present and the author idealizes the past.,Style and Techniques(243-245),A.Characterization:authorial transcendence The author tries to withdraw from making conclusion and judgment,letting the characters explain themselves and hindering as little as possible the readers direct experience of the work of art.,B.A fallible narrator:stream of consciousness&interior monologue Telling a story by recording the thought of one character,describing the mental and emotional reactions of characters to external events,rather than the events themselves,without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence,C.Multiple narrators:multiple points of view showing within the same story different reactions to the same person or the same situation,giving the story a circular form rather than a linear structureD.Disruption of time sequenceE.Open-endedness,Style:Words are often run together,with no capitalization and no proper punctuation Variety of language usage:ranging from colloquial,regional dialects to highly charged courtroom rhetoric,covering a variety of“registers”of the English language.,The End,Thank you!,
