摘要：福克纳是美国 20 世纪最重要的作家之一，他在文学创作中大量使用各种传统和创新的 写作手法，以独特的写作视角，深刻而全面地揭露处于社会历史变迁中的美国南方人的精 神危机。福克纳擅长用独特的写作方法，运用多重叙事角度构建出一个独特的时空世界， 通过时空错置和意识流等手段创造出一个独特的小说世界。论文通过研究福克纳的小说《喧 哗与骚动》，选取经典的使用时空叙事技巧的篇章，探析其独特手法的特点。论文认为，福 克纳运用意识流和多重叙事的手法打破了原有的时空秩序，使得时间和空间像意识一样自 由流动。这体现出福克纳独特的时空观，那就是时空是自由的，流动的，以人的意志而存 在。

关键词 威廉·福克纳 《喧哗与骚动》 时空观 叙事艺术

Title An Analysis of Faulkner’s Narrative Art in the View of Time and Space -on The Sound and the Fury

Abstract:William Faulkner is one of the most important American novelists in the 20th century. With his unique view, Faulkner uses lots of different kinds of writing skills, traditional and innovative, to disclose the mental crisis of southern Americans at the time of historical changes profoundly and comprehensively. Faulkner is good at using unique writing techniques, and he demonstrates his own view of time-space by the way of the misplaced time and space  and stream of consciousness to create a magical world of the novel. This thesis ventures to take up a systematical study of William Faulkner's novel, The Sound and the Fury, especially the typical space-time narrative skills used in this novel. In The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner uses stream of consciousness and multiple narrative perspectives to break the chronological order and existing time-space. It reflects Faulkner’s special view of time and space that it depends on human will, uncontrolled and dynamic.

Keywords William  Faulkner The  Sound  and  the  Fury narrative  art the  view  of time-space

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 William Faulkner and The Sound and the Fury 1

1.2 Literature Review 2

1.3 Theoretical Framework 4

1.4 Thesis Structure 5

2 Time and Space in The Sound And The Fury 6

2.1 Time : Flowing 6

2.2 Space: Shifting 7

2.3 Misplaced Time and Space 9

3 Narrative art of Time and Space 10

3.1 Multiple Narrative Perspectives about Time-Space 10

3.2 Stream of Consciousness 11

4 Faulkner's Unique View of Time and Space 12

4.1 Time and Space in Southern Culture 12

4.2 Time and Space in Parallelism 12

Conclusion 15

Acknowledgements 16

References 17

1 Introduction

1.1 William Faulkner and The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner is one of the most influential writers in 20th century. His novels are famous for his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, the background of most of his stories. It is based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spends most of his life.

Born in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner lives and grows up in the Southern U.S.. He is greatly familiar with the history of his family and the region where he lives, so the southern culture and people always are the topics of his works. After moving to Oxford, Mississippi, his family settles down, and Faulkner lives here until he dies. It is believed that Faulkner’s family is the source of his artistic imagination, because his family has many good story tellers, including his mother Maud, his grandmother Lelia Butler, and the black maid Caroline who influences Faulkner a lot .

In 1925, Faulkner wrote his first novel, Soldier’s Pay, which was influenced by another famous American writer, Sherwood Anderson, Faulkner’s good friend. After several years’ writing, Faulkner started to set the Yoknapatawpha County as the background of his novels. Flags in the Dust is the first novel set in the Yoknapatawpha County, which was a reflection of traditions and history of the south and Faulkner’s childhood. In 1928, the most important works of Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, was created after his 31st birthday. In 1930s, Faulkner continued to work and produces many great masterpieces such as As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932) and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). Actually, Faulkner was unknown to public until he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. In addition, he also received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction because of A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962).