A Stylistic Study Of Faulkner’s Short Stories

Since twentieth Century, great changes have taken place in the Literature, which was influenced on by other subjects. Most writers have committed to the pursuit of a variety of writing skills on the experiment and innovation. In suchliterary context, Faulkner undertook all sorts of exploration of writing skills in his short stories. But he did not fall into formalism as other writers. In the aesthetic choice of literature, he repeatedly stressed the melange between form and content, the experiments and exploration of the form is to deepen the content of the works.The first chapter of the thesis, "narrative point of view and the function of Faulkner’s short stories" refers to the domestic and foreign theory about stylistics, to explore and deepen the comprehensive on Faulkner’s short stories from the first person perspective, the internal perspective and zero perspective. Narrative analyze how to arrange the story through classification of narrative angle of view, which belongs to the category skills; stylistics analyze the novel and the emotion in the language selection embodied the narrator’s attitude tendency through the language features of narrative. Faulkner through the stylistic multi perspective narrative model, broke away from the creation of barriers of the traditional novel, from the form given the abundant literature on modern significance. The second chapter "the expression of Faulkner’s short stories and characters of discourse function" discusses the expression function of the characters in the works of the discourse, stylistics divided expression of character discourse into different types, according to the vocabulary and sentence structure, punctuation and personal changes of different In this paper, which was based on domestic and foreign theories about the character discourse. Multi perspective narrative and multiple character words expression reflected that the writer extended Modernism literature. In the narrative perspective of short stories, he made an extensive use of inner perspective and the first person perspective of performance to portray psychological activities of the characters; about the expressions in discourse, to express the characters’inner monologue and stream of consciousness, Faulkner made a massive use of free indirect speech and free direct speech, which are discourse patterns of modernism. In order to show the real world which is crushing and absurd, the people who are living in a sense of alienation and spiritual crisis, his short story reflects the characteristics of modernity in style.Chapter 3, " rhetorical technique of expression and function of William Faulkner’s short stories" first discusses the role of traditional rhetorical technique of expression, from metaphor, hyperbole and symbolic point of view, which is the analysis of the characterization and vivid storyline. Next chapter explored humor of language and characters. Faulkner used a variety of traditional literary forms, which reflects on his respect on literary tradition of South American. As a successor of the southern literature, Faulkner made an extensive use of the traditional literary creation skills in his practice of short stories. Southern people born with a strong romantic passion, after losing the war, they have become more romantic and their imagination of romance has increased to an unbelievable extent. Faulkner has been sentimentally attached to the southern society, in his short stories, he skillfully combines romanticism and realism, past and present together through the symbolic imagery, which reflects the traditional characteristics in style.Chapter IV, "Faulkner’s literary style concept and construction of the short story", First discussed about the relationship between the writer and the recipient, and analyzed extensive use of popular, popularized artistic, which reflected the return to popular literature, traditional literature. Then the inheritance and innovation on the stylistics were discussed.Faulkner’s short stories combine the modernism and traditional writing techniques together, with deep and sharp sights to show readers the imbalance of American old southern tradition order, racial decay, Northern industrial invasion which brought the alienation of people, the conflict value between the north and south,and the southerners have a feeling of lost, desperate and confused. Only much deeper exploration and research on Faulkner’s short stories, we can find Faulkner’s outstanding achievement in content and artistic feature.