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单击此处编辑标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,William Cuthbert Faulkner and his A Rose for Emily,Xu,Qiuhong,William Cuthbert Faulkner,(1897-1962),One of leading American authors of the twentieth century,Nobel Prize winner,Biographical Introduction,in 1897: born in New Albany, Mississippi,At the age of 4/5: moved to Oxford, Mississippi,In 1915: dropped out of high school,1919-1920: attended the University of Mississippi,before 1924: writing poetry (failure),Since 1924: started to write fiction,in 1926: the first novel,Soldiers Pay,was accepted by publishers,in 1929: married Estelle Oldham Franklin,1929-1942: a period of amazing literary output,in 1949: awarded the Nobel Prize for literature,in 1962: died at home of a heart attack,His literary contributions,19 novels,4 collections of about 70 short stories,2 volumes of poetry,H,is major works,The Sound and Fury,喧嚣与骚动,(,1929)decay and fall of the,Compsons,.,As I Lay Dying,我弥留之际,(,1930)a poor white familys journey through fire and flood to bury the mother in her hometown.,Light in August,八月之光,(1932)the exposition of the psychology of racism,Absalom , Absalom!,押沙龙，押沙龙！,(1936)about the,Sutpen,saga,His literary idols,Sherwood Anderson,James Joyce,His major themes,His fiction discusses issues of sex, class, race relations, and relations with nature.,Today he is regarded as an important interpreter of the universal theme of the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.,Setting of Faulkners novels,Most of Faulkners stories happened in Jefferson town, in,Yoknapatawpha,County(,约克纳帕塔法县,), a fictional world created by Faulkner.,“that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that,I,would never live long enough to exhaust it and that by sublimating the actual into the apocryphal,I,would have complete liberty to use whatever talent,I,might have to its absolute top.,I,t opened up a gold mine of other people, so,I,created a cosmos of my own”,
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