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1、TheSouthernRenaissanceandWilliamFaulknerSouthernAmericaTheslavestates:Virginia,Delaware,Maryland,Georgia,NorthCarolina,andSouthCarolina,Kentucky,Tennessee,Alabama,Florida,Mississippi,Missouri,Arkansas,Louisiana,OklahomaandTexasSouthernliteratureSouthernLiteraturerefers
2、toliteratureaboutthesouthofUnitedStateorwrittenbysouthernwriterswhohavealltriedtoroottheirworksinthesouthwithaviewtoachievinguniversalapplicability.Howeversomewriters,suchasEdgarAllenPoe,couldnotbenamedasfiguresthatformedSouthernLiterature.MarkTwainandKateChopinareprom
3、inentrepresentativesinitsearlystages.CharacteristicsofSouthernLiteratureAfocusonacommonSouthernhistory,thesignificanceoffamily,asenseofcommunityandone’srolewithinit,asenseofjustice,theregion'sdominantreligionandtheburdens/rewardsreligionoftenbrings,issuesofracialtensio
4、n,landandthepromiseitbrings,asenseofsocialclassandplace,andtheuseoftheSoutherndialect.TheSouthernRenaissanceThesouthernRenaissancewastherevivalofAmericanSouthernliteraturethatbeganinthe1920sand1930swiththeappearanceofwriterssuchasEllenGlasgow,WilliamFaulkner,CarolineGo
5、rdon,ErskineCaldwell,KatherineAnnePorter,AllenTate,TennesseeWilliams,andRobertPennWarrenetc.WilliamFaulknerandhisnovelsarethemostimportantamongtheconstellationofwritersandworks.TennesseeWilliamsisanotherimportantfigurewhogothissuccessinplaywriting.racialsegregation,rac
6、ialdiscriminationWilliamFaulkner(1896-1962)1949NobelPrizeWinner;ThemostinfluentialandcriticalfigureintheSouthernRenaissance;Authorof19novelsand3volumesofshortstories;TheownerofaliterarykingdomYoknapatawphacountyPeriodsofnovelwriting1.-1929Soldier’sPay(1927),Mosquitoes(
7、1927),Sartoris(1929)2.1929-1936TheSoundandtheFury(1929),AsILayDying(1930),Sanctuary(1931),LightinAugust(1932),Absalom,Absalom!(1936)3.1936-1948TheHamlet(1940),GoDown,Moses(1942)someshortstories4.1948-IntruderintheDust(1948)StyleofFaulknermysticpictureoftheSouth(Gothico
8、rgrotesquestories),fictionalworldasepitomizedinhisYoknapatawphacounty,distinctivenarrativemethod(streamofconsciousnes