1. Survey of Selected Western Classics Unit 2: A Rose for Emily 授課教師 : 李欣穎副教授 【本著作除另有註明外，採取創 CC 「姓名標示－ 非商業性－相同方式分享」台灣 3.0 版授權釋出】創 CC 「姓名標示－ 非商業性－相同方式分享」台灣 3.0 版

2. William Faulkner (1897-1962) Native of Oxford, Mississippi, U.S.A. (“Jefferson” in his fiction) Came from old southern family Influenced by James Joyce and Sigmund Freud Wrote scripts in Hollywood 1949 Nobel Prize laureate 2

3. Literary Achievements One of the most important modernist and American Southern writers Distinct narrative voice + ventriloquism Experimented with narrative chronology and techniques for representing mind and memory Imaginative world of Yoknapatawpha County 3

4. Major Works Sartoris (1929) The Sound and the Fury (1929) As I Lay Dying (1930) Light in August (1932) Absalom, Absalom! (1936) The Snopes trilogy: – The Hamlet (1940) – The Town (1957) – The Mansion (1959) Intruder in the Dust (1948) 4

5. Plot and Narration Time sequence: – Communal gossip – Collective reminiscence – Cognitive process Motif of Emily’s indomitability Motif of pitying Emily – Modernist technique (stream of consciousness) 5

6. Plot and Narration – Murder mystery – Interactive writer-reader relationship – Cinematographic feel: Cropped images Close-ups Still shots Angle of view Zooming and tracking 6

7. Point of View Multiple narrators – Attitude toward Emily – Demands on Emily – Concern for and indifference to Emily – “Idolize” Emily – Attitude toward Homer Baron – Indifference to Homer Baron – Exclusivism – Communal values 7

8. Characterization Proud Possessive and possessed Suppressive and suppressed Seclusive yet coquettish Wanting to yet unable to ignore social restrictions Deny death and passage of time 8

9. Themes Individual vs. community Tradition vs. progress South vs. North 9

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