Dry September,- By William Faulkner,William Faulkner (1897-1962),The Southern Renaissance,The Southern Renaissance is featured in its unique feeling of guilt, failure and poverty as well. Southern Myths 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 (1897-1962),-One of the greatest writer in 20th century -initiator of Southern Renaissance -one of the most influential modernist novel writers in the West,An American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.,Simultaneously(同时地） original and assimilative； regarded as one of the leading American writers in the literary history of the United States； a representative of the writers using stream of consciousness,（William Faulkner 18971962）,Works are famous for multiple（多重的） narrations and time shifts within narrative. Works are known to be very challenging and difficult.,William Faulkner (1897-1962),William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 and began to write poetry as a teenager. During World War I, he joined the Canadian Royal Flying Corps but never fought; the day he graduated from the Flying Corps, the Armistice(休战） was signed. The only war injury he received was the result of getting drunk and partying too hard on Armistice Day, wherein he injured his leg.,Faulkner in Hollywood,In the university of Virginia campus,William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech - I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a lifes work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. -我感觉，这个奖不是授予我这个人，而是授予我的工作，它是对我呕心沥血、毕生从事的人类精神探索的工作的肯定。我的这项工作不为名，更不图利，而是要从人类精神的原始素材里创造出前所未有的东西。,(1) 19241929: training as a writer (习作阶段） The Marble Faun 大理石雕像 Soldiers Pay 士兵的报酬 Mosquitoes蚊群 ,literary career: (three stages),(2) 19291936: most productive and prolific period （鼎盛时期） Sartoris 萨托里斯 The Sound and the Fury 喧哗与骚动 As I Lay Dying 在我弥留之际 Light in August 八月之光 Absalom, Absalom 押沙龙，押沙龙！,(3) 1940end: won recognition in America （巩固和确认） Go Down, Moses 去吧，摩西 ,Faulkners most celebrated novels,The Sound and the Fury (1929) 喧哗与骚动,书名的典故出自莎士比亚悲剧麦克白第5幕第5场麦克白的有名台词：“人生如痴人说梦，充满着喧哗与骚动，却没有任何意义。” 多角度的叙述方法 “意识流”手法 “神话模式”手法,His Short story collection,These 13 (1931), 这十三篇includes many of his most acclaimed （称赞的）(and most frequently anthologized（收入选集的 ) stories, including “A Rose for Emily,“献给爱米丽的玫瑰 “Red Leaves“ 红叶 “That Evening Sun“ 夕阳 “Dry September“干燥的九月,Yoknapatawpha 约克纳帕塔法,Yoknapatawpha County（约克纳帕塔法县）: - A fictional county in northern Mississippi, the setting for most of William Faulkners novels and short stories, and patterned upon Faulkners actual home in Lafayette County, Mississippi.,Yoknapatawpha Kingdom,The Yoknapatawpha stories deal, generally, with the historical period from the Civil War up to the 1920s when the First World War broke out, and people of stratified(分层次) society, the aristocrats, the new rich, the poor white, and the blacks. As a result, Yoknapatawpha County （约克纳帕塔法县） has become an allegory（寓言） or a parable of the Old South（老南方/南北战争前的美国南方) , with which Faulkner has managed successfully to show a panorama（全貌） of the experience and consciousness of the whole Southern society.,福克纳手绘“约克纳帕塔法县地图”,“约克纳帕塔法世系”,这个“世系”以美国南方几个庄园主世家的荣辱兴衰为主线，表现了一个世纪以来美国南方社会的历史命运、社会变迁以及各阶层人物的起伏沉浮，写出了美国南方地区的典型特征，具有浓厚的乡土气息。,Dry September,Plot Analysis of “Dry September”,Most good stories start with a fundamental list of ingredients: the initial situation 开端 conflict 冲突 Complication 复杂化 Climax 高潮 Suspense 悬念 Denouement 结局,Initial Situation section I,Saturday night at the barber shop 1 what is the environmental background of the story? 2 In the barber shop, what are people talking about? 3 who gather in barber shop and what are their attitude towards the rumor?,Barber: “I know Will Mayes. Hes a good nigger. And I know Miss Minnie Cooper, too.“ “I dont believe Will Mayes did it,“ The client (the drummer): “Then you are a hell of a white man,“ “Do you claim that anything excuses a nigger attacking a white woman? The client (to the second speaker): Do you mean to tell me you are a white man and youll stand for it? You better go back North where you came from. The South dont want your kind here.“,The youth (Butch): “Do you accuse a white woman of lying?“ you damn niggerlover.” McLendon: “are you going to sit there and let a black son rape a white woman on the streets of Jefferson?“ The third （a soldier)：“Did it really happen?“ a third said. “This aint the first man scare she ever had, like Hawkshaw says. Wasnt there something about a man on the kitchen roof, watching her undress