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The Power Writing Of William Faulkner’s Fictions

Posted on:2015-03-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z X NiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330431951953Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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William Faulkner is known as the "the writer of writers",his creation has a deep and profound impact on the world literature.What Faulkner achieved is that he built a complete system of Yoknapatawpha.This system is large and complex,which not only shows the pride and bewilderment of declining aristocracy,but also presents the poor’s misfortune and joy,creating a unique "Human Comedy" for American South.Faulkner displays a facility of getting into and revealing the minds of his characters freely.He also shows his talent in digging what makes people who they are.All shows conflicts exist everywhere in Yoknapatawpha,such as race,class and family conflicts.These conflicts can not exist alone,nor is immutable and frozen,and he gives fuzzy information and creates complicated scenes to oppugn some absolute conclusion. Their essence is the carrier and performance that different powers unite and struggle all the time.Faulkner breaks narrative tradition, combines narrative complexity with intricate power,and shows the blend and antagonism among history,urban,family and sex,creating the unique power writing.Power writing is an important perspective to understand Faulkner’s literary connotation,which has significant value.It is a vital part of Faulkner’s complicated literary connotation.After American civil war,the south become the carrier of different powers’struggle.and some of them try to seek the meaning and value survived in southern society.They consciously resist the knowledge of the power production.and rebel family control and historical burden,attempting to create a new society.Except against encirclement and suppression of different power.the pursuit also need stand up to it that seekers themselves identify with some power knowledge, and this forms a unique southerner’s historical fatalism.Faulkner’s power writing shows rich narrative pattern.From the perspective of power struggle,we will find the narration is full of dialogue,and repetition is an important narrative skills,constituting a complex and multiple narrative connotation. These narrative and realistic power are intertwined, and form a distinctive operation mode.Family represents a basic power of the society,while its construction and maintenance need face the conflict and suppress of various powers. At the same time, a variety of powers’ struggle constantly changes.especially various power are intertwined when the competition is fierce.forcing some power to change its operation. The power gradually evolved into bio-power. Power writing has the prominent functional role in Faulkner’s fictions,and the functions permeate in many aspects of texts.Power writing constructs the story of texts,stimulates the discourse energy,extends semantic tension,and explore the meaning of different themes.These functions extend the whole creation of Faulkner, which play an indispensable role. All in all, power writing is not the only dimension to understand Faulkner’s fictions,but it really is a very valuable perspective.
Keywords/Search Tags:William Faulkner, Power, Narrative, literary themes
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