A Study On The Style Of Absalom, Absalom!

As one of the American famous writer William Faulkner's representative works, "Absalom, Absalom!" not only has the rich ideological content, but also has widely utilized various modern art techniques. However, it has not obtained the enough value regarding the work's style research. This article mainly elaborates the work's style form from the three aspects of the narration strategy, the structure shape and the style context. In the narration strategy, through the choice of the narrators, the establishment of the narration level, the arrangement of the narration sound and the question of the narration reliable degree, the author makes the readers fall into the narrative labyrinth; At the same time, the work becomes "the novel's novel" on the basic of the narration and the criticism. In the structure shape, the author deals the time with the psychological model of succession distortion, uses the modeling structure of spatial juxtaposition, and realizes the work overlapping of the space and the time. The work's style context conceals the author's psychic mechanism, the esthetic appeal and the value system, manifests the author's narrative wisdom on processing the historical novel by poet's mood, and it transmits the rich social culture content. The work not only preserves the American literature memory, also develops the American literature tradition creatively.