The Open And Pluralistic World--On Faulkner's Stream-of-Consciousness Art

This present dissertation seeks to make an exploration of Faulkner's openness and plurality as expressed in his stream-of-consciousness novels The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. It examines Faulkner's pluralistic writing background based on the best Western civilization; it analyzes his open structures such as the use of long sentences and the circular narrative structures; and it also makes a detailed analysis of his pluralistic techniques: the stream-of-consciousness techniques, the rhetorical devices, the ingenious exploitation of punctuation and some cinematic devices and so on. In view of the inexhaustible significance of Faulkner's stream-of-consciousness works endowed by his open and pluralistic world, this dissertation proves that Faulkner is far beyond the limited label of "regional writer.