分析《喧嚣与骚动》和《八月之光》中福克纳的人道主义思想_英语论文

Faulkner’s Humanitarianism in The Sound and the Fury and Light in August

摘要

作为美国南方文学的旗手与巨人，福克纳和他的作品受到了众多学者的关注和研究。关于他的流派，许多学者都有争议， 但正如他在日本的一次采访中回答到：“我唯一愿意归属的流派就是人道主义流派。”而他的人道主义思想在他的作品中也有所体现,其中《八月之光》和《喧嚣与骚动》是福克纳最为成功的，也是传送度最广的代表作。本文将通过分析这两部作品来阐述福克纳的人道主义思想, 并初步探讨其人道主义思想对当今社会所产生的积极意义。

关键词：福克纳; 传统人道主义；现代人道主义；启示

Abstract 

As a flag of American southern literature, Faulkner and his works, especially his novels, have attracted numerous scholars from abroad and home, who do their own research on the great pieces by Faulkner, who hold different ideas about his genre. But as Faulkner once said in an interview held in Japan, “the only genre he wanted to belong to is Humanitarian literary genre.” And he expresses his Humanitarianism through his own novels, among which Light in August and The Sound and the Fury can be viewed as the two typical ones. The paper aims to make a study on Faulkner’s Humanitarianism by interpreting and analyzing the above-mentioned two novels and discuss its positive impacts on today’s society. 

Key words: Faulkner; traditional humanitarianism; modern humanitarianism; enlightenment

Contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1 Introduction to Faulkner 1

1.2 Introduction to the Sound and the Fury and Light in August 1

1.3 Reviewing the research on Faulkner and the thesis 3

2. Faulkner’s traditional humanitarianism 5

2.1 Faulkner’s Traditional Humanitarianism 5

2.2 Relation between Humans 5

2.21 The Warmness between Humans 5

2.22 The Malevolence between Humans 6

2.3 Human and society. 7

2.31 The brightness of human personality 7

2.32 The Disappearance of Personality under Repression 8

2.4 Man and Self 8

3. Modern Humanitarianism 10

3.1 Faulkner Modern Humanitarianism 10

3.2 Strong Attack to the Religious Alienation 10

3.21 The Desolation of Spiritual World 10

3.22 Paternal Figures in the Name of God 11

3.3 The counterview to Old Southern 12

3.31 The Stubborn Prejudice of Racial-centered Traditions 12

3.32The Image of Southern Belle 14

4. The Enlightenment of Faulkner’s Humanitarianism to China. 16

4.1 The Enlightenment to Individuals 16

4.2 The Enlightenment to the Society. 17

References 19