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1、Chapter15TheSouthernRenaissance;WilliamFaulkner7/25/20211I.TheSouthernRenaissance1.Southernwritersallroottheirworksinthesouthtoachieveuniversalapplicability.2.Writers:WilliamFaulkner,KatherineAnnePorter,EudoraWelty,andCarsonMcCullers,FlanneryO’Connor,WilliamStyronandPercy
2、Walker.7/25/20212II.WilliamFaulkner(1897-1962)1.GeneralComment:WilliamFaulknerrankswithErnestHemingwayasoneoftheleadingauthorsofthe20thCentury.Faulkner,likeRobertFrost,wasaregionalist,writingaboutthescenesandpeopleheknewbest.Faulkner’sregionwastheDeepSouth,withitsbitterhis
3、toryofslavery,civilwaranddestruction.Heinventedacounty:Yoknapatawpha,andatowninhisimagination,verysimilartohisownpartofMississippi.7/25/20213YoknapatawphaCountyHewroteaboutthesocietyintheSouthbyinventingfamilieswhichrepresenteddifferentsocialforces:theold,decayingupperclas
4、s;therising,ambitious,unscrupulousclassof“poorwhites”;andtheNegroeswholaboredforbothofthem.MostofhisstoriestakeplaceinthisimaginaryYoknapatawphacounty,andconcernmembersofthesamefamiliesatdifferenttimesinhistory.7/25/202142.HisStyleHisbooksaresometimesdifficulttoread,andnee
5、dclosestudybythereader.Hisworkshavecomplexplots.Theheroofonestorymayappearasminorcharacterinanother.Stream-of-consciousnessMultiplepointofview.7/25/202153.MajorWorksSoldier’sPayandMosquitoes(1927),thefirsttwonovels.Sartoris(1929)TheSoundandFury(1929)AsILayDying(1930)Sanctu
6、ary(1931)LightinAugust(1932)Absalom,Absalom!(1936)GoDown,Moses(1942)7/25/202164.TheSoundandFuryA.thestoryB.thecharactersCaddy:capableoflove,losthervirginityBenjy:anidiotQuentin:livesintheidealworld,destroyedhimself,Jason:emptylifeDilsey:ablackwerefullyinlovesupportofthefam
7、ily.7/25/202175.LightinAugustA.thecharacters:JoeChristmas,GailHightower,andJoannaBurden,LenaGrove.B.TheStory(P240,242)C.Readtheselectedpartsofthenovel.7/25/202186.AsILayDyingA.ThestoryB.TheCharacters:AddieBundrenandherhusband,hersonsanddaughterC.59episodeswith15narrators.A
8、nexampleofmultiplepointofview.7/25/20219