An Elegy to the Moral Downfall of the South:The Ethical Interpretation of The Sound and the Fury
1949 Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner was not only a great author,but also a prominent humanist.Faulkner was very concerned about the predicaments and spiritual deterioration of Southerners.In his Yoknapatawpha saga,Faulkner tried hard to inspire Southerners to restore the best qualities of human beings: love,compassion,honor,pride,pity and hope,etc.In his masterpiece The Sound and the Fury,Faulkner laments the loss of love,empathy,honor,pride,emotion and morality to arouse peoples aspirations for moral development and ethical responsibility.The present thesis is an attempt to analyze the moral downfall of the South in The Sound and the Fury by adopting ethical literary criticism.
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury ethical literary criticism moral downfall
Yao Xiaojuan Zhou Tiannan
School of Foreign Languages,Northeast Petroleum University,Daqing,China
国际会议
吉林
英文
371-377
2018-06-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）