《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》的叙事艺术分析--毕业论文.doc

【标题】《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》的叙事艺术分析 【作者】杨 雪 苹 【关键词】献给爱米丽的玫瑰;?叙事技巧；叙事视角；叙事时空特征；鲜明的对比 【指导老师】贾 艳 娜 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionWilliam Faulkner is regarded as one of the leading American authors of the Twentieth century and the leading representative of?“southern literature”. His writings draw the attention of not only the American but also the whole world. He is an original writer from many aspects. His subject matter, his originality of work out of the plot, and his unusual artistic style let him stand like a firm and erect reef in the fast changing western literary currents. It is owing to his outstanding contribution to the world literature that he was awarded The Noble Prize for literature in1950.Faulkner began his literary career as a poet, but his poetry was undistinguished and commercially unsuccessful. He turned to story-telling in 1925, for which he had great talent. His novels began with Soldier’s Pay?(1926) and Mosquitoes?(1927), which won him attention. With Sartoris?(1939) he found his great theme, the history of Yoknapatawpha. Faulkner chronicled this mythical country’s inhabitants from its original Native Americans to its rich plantation—own families—Compson and Sartoris—then on through rebellion and reconstruction to a modern era dominated by the shrewd and ignoble Snopes clan. He created the novels for which he is now best known: The Sound and the Fury?(1929), as I Lay Dying?(1930), Light in August?(1932), Absalom, Absalom!?(1936). His best later work is comic: The Hamlet?(1940), Go Down, Moses?(1942), The Town?(1957) and The Mansion?(1960).?Most of Faulkner’s major works are set in an imaginary place in the Deep South called Yoknapatawpha country with its main town Jefferson, which closely resembled Faulkner’s native Oxford in Lafayette country, Missippi, where he spent most of his life. His family had some social status in the history of the region. And it was from that region’s social status characteristics of the white, racial violence, honor codes and