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I Created A Cosmos Of My Own

Posted on:2009-04-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:G L SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245976703Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Faulkner's novel was constantly brought forth new ideas in the arts,for example,stream of consciousness,much viewpoints-unreliable narrative art,archetypical pattern,structure of point to point etc.The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's main stream-of-consciousness novel.In these novels,on the one hand,Faulkner give a vivid description of the gradation and variety of character' stream of consciousness,deepened the stream of consciousness;on the other hand,stream of consciousness is combined with the realism,is overturned,The Sound and the Fury and Absalom,Absalom! all have four unreliable narrators who all in the same narrative level.The narration of The Sound and the "Fury has two characteristics:the story coincides with the utterance and the outer narrative conduct.In Absalom,Absalom! to set up narrative authority, every narrator overturned others'narrtions from different viewpoint and restructured his own story for the protagonist.Thus,it led to the narrative courses of "restructure-overturn-restructure" in Absalom, Absalomt! Three good results are achieved:fabrication and real;polyphonic features;multiple stories: hero story and narrator story.There are three types which Faulkner makes use of archetypical pattern.First one,the variants of Jesus:one archetype's many variants.The second one,Absalom,Absalom!:the fusion and transfiguration of the similar carriers which have same source.Absalom,Absalom! and the archetype:many archetype stories construct novel story;many archetype characters construct one novel character or many novel characters share one archetype character.The third one,Go Down,Moses:the fusion and transfiguration of the different carriers which have different source.On the one hand,Faulkner brings the Indian growing up-ceremony and the Christianity's degenerate-rescue story into the story of initiation;On the other hand, Faulkner transfigures them,so an aesthetic distance between them is created as a result.The Sound and the Fury:the structure of point to point by the repetition of subject; Light in August:the structure of point to point by the variation of subject;Absalom, Absalom!:the structure of point to point the multiple stories;As I lay dying:the structure of point to point by the narrator's distribution like concentric circles;The Wild Palms:the structure of point to point by the variation of subject and replace of chapters.As a experimental novelist,Faulkner has made a great contribution to the developing of novel' arts.
Keywords/Search Tags:Faulkner, stream of consciousness, much viewpoints-unreliable narrative art, archetype pattern, structure of point to point
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