文档介绍：The Southern Renaissance & William Faulkner
American southern literature can date back to Edgar Allen Poe, and reach its summit with the appearance of the two “giants”– Faulkner and Wolfe.
There are southern women writers – Katherine Anne , Eudora Welty尤朵拉·韦尔蒂, and Flannery O’Connor弗兰纳里·奥康诺.
The Southern Renaissance
I. Heritage
Features of Southern literature prior to this renaissance --- focus on historical romances about the "Lost Cause" of the Confederate States of America. --- glorified the heroism of the Confederate army and civilian population during the Civil War and the supposedly "idyllic culture" that existed in the South before the war (known as the Antebellum South).
The Southern Renaissance was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Wolfe, Tennessee Williams, etc.
Three major themes in Southern Renaissance --- the burden of history in a place where many people still remembered slavery,reconstruction, and a devastating military defeat.
--- focus on the South's conservative culture, specifically on how an individual could exist without losing a sense of identity in a region where family, religion, munity were more highly valued than one's personal and social life.
--- the South's troubled history in regards to racial issues.
The Southern Renaissance
The Southern Renaissance is featured in its unique feeling of guilt, failure and poverty as well.
Southern Myths
a. Chevalier heritage(骑士精神的传承)
b. Agrarian virtue(土地的价值)
c. Plantation aristocracy (种植园主)
d. Lost cause (注定要失败的势力)
e. White supremacy (白人至上)
f. Purity of womanhood (女人的纯洁)
William Faulkner
---One of the greatest writer in 20th century
---initiator of Southern Renaissance
---one of the most influential modernist novel writers in the west
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 and began to write poetry as a teenager. During