威廉福克纳的南方情结 --简析《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》 .doc

【标题】威廉?福克纳的南方情结?--简析《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》 【作者】蒋小群 【关键词】艾米丽；南方情结；贵族；落寞；冲突 【指导老师】刘 敏 刘婷婷 【专业】英语 【正文】I. William Faulkner’s Life and His Southern ComplexA. William Faulkner’s Life and His Southern ComplexWilliam Faulkner is often regarded as one of America’s greatest novelists and short story writers of the 20th century, and he is one of the most widely commented upon among the contemporary American authors.He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. When he was five, his family moved to Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner’s father was man of little speech while his mother was ambitious, sensitive and literary and had exerted great influence on him. Appearing as an average student, Faulkner quit school in the tenth grade. Although he had been little formally educated he was fond of literature and had read many writers. This had great impacts on Faulkner who himself finished many writings. While him had not gained pubic recognition until 1950. This was a great success for his masterpiece The Sound and The Fury was awarded for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.1?At the outbreak of World War I, Faulkner attempted to join the U.S. Air Force, but was rejected because he did not meet the height and weight requirement. In1918 he enlisted in the Canadian Air Force. However, the war ended before he could see any battle action.William Faulkner’s southern complex is the emotionally essential element to A Rose for Emily. He was born in New Albany Mississippi of the south of America, and was grown up in a society full of complexities and conflicts. In the Civil War, the southerners were defeated by the northerners who to great degree represented the northern new capitalism. Moreover, the social tradition, traditional value and standard of the morality of the south, such as advocating masters’ violence, thinking high of the family’s honors as well as the centrality of themselves and so on, especially in the aristocratic circles. While fiercely hit by the northern new