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Lecture 5 Southern Literature and Faulkner Introduction to Southern Literature 1.southern character -importance of tradition and family tie -violence -religion -fondness for rhetoric 2. southern myths -chevalier tradition\ -agrarian virtue -plantation aristocracy -lost cause -white supremacy -purity of southern womanhood 3. literary heritage Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner 4. unique features twisted, violent, pessimistic, dealing with displacement and human distorted innocence Faulkner 1. life : from an old, white upper class that declined in 20th century 2. point of view: -grim picture of human society, - internal virtues like love, honor, pity, compassion and self-sacrifice - writer’s task to remind his readers of true values and virtues Supplementary: statement made when awarded Nobel Prize 3. writing career and works Three stages: 1st stage: training stage as a writer(1924-1929) The Marble Faun 1924 Soldier’s Pay 1926 Mosquitoes 1927 2nd stage: height of his power, great productive period (1929-1936) Sartoris 1929 The Sound and the Fury 1929 Light in August 1932 Absalom, Absalom 1936 As I Lay Dying 1939 3rd stage: gaining recognition in America (after 1940) Go Down, Moses 1942 4. Features of his writing : Difficult, complicated, highly original “saga novel” Yoknapatawpha 1) subjects 2) theme -history race -deterioration -conflicts -horror, violence, the abnormal 3) Style a. complex plot b. stream of consciousness c. multiple point of view d. characterization e. language: -words run together -sentences not clearly indicated -fragment -variety of “register” of English f. narrative stru