TheSouthernRenaissance1background2formation3theFugitives4WilliamFaulknerCONTENTSbackgroundForalongtimeoftheCivilWar

theagriculturalsouthremainedsunordinatetoindustrialnorth,andthereexistedaglaringgapincultureandwayofthinkingbetweenthetwopartsofcountry.Measuresweretakentodevelopthesouth,economicimprovementsslowlycameabout.Althoughthesouthremainedconservative,thereappearedavisiblesignofchangeinliterature,andtherewereeffortstoreassessthepastandthepresentanddoself-searching.formationSincethebeginningofthe20thcentury,therehaveemergedafewgenerationsofsouthernwriterswhohavealltriedtoroottheirworksinthesouthwithaviewtoachievinguniversalapplicability.Writers:WilliamFaulkner,CarolineGordon,ElizabethMadoxRoberts,KatherineAnnePorter,AllenTate,TennesseeWilliams,RobertPennWarren,andZoraNealeHurston,amongothers.TheFugitives（逃亡者派）ThegroupincludedJohnCroweRansom,DonaldDavidson,AllenTate,RobertPennWarren,andothers.ThestartofthesouthernRenaissanceisoftentracedbacktotheactivitiesof“TheFugitives”,agroupofpoetsandcriticswhowerebasedatVanderbiltUniversityinNashville,Tennessee,justafterthefirstworldwar.WilliamFaulknerWritingStyleLifeandCareerintroductionMajorWorksWilliamFaulknerintroductionWilliamCuthbertFaulknerwasan

Americanwriter

andNobelPrize

laureatefromOxford,Mississippi.Faulknerwrotenovels,shortstories,aplay,poetry,essays,andscreenplays.Heisprimarilyknownforhisnovelsandshortstoriessetinthefictional

YoknapatawphaCounty.Faulknerwasawardedthe1949NobelPrizeforLiteraturefor"hispowerfulandartisticallyuniquecontributiontothemodernAmericannovel"1949年諾貝爾文學(xué)獎得主，獲獎原因為“因為他對當(dāng)代美國小說做出了強(qiáng)有力的和藝術(shù)上無與倫比的貢獻(xiàn)”。YoknapatawphaCounty

YoknapatawphaCountyisafictionalcountycreatedbyWilliamFaulkner,baseduponandinspiredbyLafayetteCounty,Mississippi,anditscountyseatofOxford,Mississippi，wherehespentmostofhislife.Aswellasover50ofhisstoriesinYoknapatawphaCounty。[j?kn?p??t?f?]LifeandCareer1897.9.25boyho-od17yearsold1919and19201925borninNewAlbany,Mississippi,andhehadthreeyoungerbrothers.listenedtheexploitsofhisgreat-grandfather,whowasasuccessfulbusinessman,writer,andCivilWarhero,beingcalled"OldColonel".metPhilipStone,whowouldlaterbecomeanimportantearlyinfluenceonhiswriting.attendedtheUniversityofMississippiinOxford,droppingoutinNovember1920.hisfirstnovelpublished,Soldier'spay軍餉.192719321929~1942194919571962.7.6wrotehisfirstnovelsetinhisfictionalYoknapatawphaCounty,entitledFlagsintheDust<墳?zāi)估锏钠鞄?gt;.

becameascreenwriterinHollywood.mostproductive:2short-storycollections,avolumeofpoetry,11novelshadpublished.wasawardedthe1949NobelPrizeforLiterature.servedasWriter-in-ResidenceattheUniversityofVirginiadiedofathrombosis-relatedheartattack,aged64.WritingStyleFaulknerwasknownforhisexperimentalstylewithmeticulousattentiontodictionandcadence.Faulknermadefrequentuseof"streamofconsciousness"inhiswriting,andwroteoftenhighlyemotional,subtle,cerebral,complex,andsometimesGothicorgrotesquestoriesofawidevarietyofcharacters.19nevols75shortstories2volumesofpoetryMajorWorksSoldier'sPayandMosquitoes(1927)Sartoris(1929)TheSoundandFury<喧囂與騷動>(1929)AsILayDying<我彌留之際>(1930)Sanctuary<圣殿>(1931)LightinAugust<八月之光>(1932)Absalom,Absalom<押沙龍!押沙龍!>(1936)GoDown,Moses<去吧，摩西>(1942)TheSoundandFury

ThenovelcentersontheCompsonfamily,formerSouthernaristocratswhoarestrugglingtodealwiththedissolutionoftheirfamil