Southern_Literature课件.ppt

Lecture 9;Southern Literature;American South;Southern character;Southern myths;Southern Renaissance;No.1 southern writer Life: old, white upper class family, no regular school, eager to join WWI, began his writing career, Nobel Prize in 1949 ; “Man will not only endure: he will prevail, because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s duty is to write about all these things. ”;Faulkner’s setting ;Faulkner’s Major themes;Faulkner’s style;a. Stream-of-consciousness b. Dislocated time sequence c. Multiple points of view ;Faulkner’s masterpiece;;The Sound and the Fury (1929);Flannery OConnor (1925 –1964) ;William Styron (1925~2006);Discussion Questions for “A Rose for Emily”;What do Miss Emily’s House its surrounding suggest?;Order of Narration;Discussion Questions;Narrative point of view