2. Literature is the criticism of real life. 3. Writing Style: Stream of Consciousness and Gothic Literature
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The Writing style of this story
1. Stream of Consciousness What is Stream of Consciousness ? In literary criticism, it is a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individual’s point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character’s thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions.
A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner
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Background of the author
1. He was born and bred in ______ and lived there almost all his life.
2. 2. After WWI, he led a life in a listless way. 3. 3. Who was his guide to enter the artistic center and
• PlotClimax ·Conflict ·Dialogue ·Dramatic structure ·Exposition ·Falling action ·Plot device ·Subplot
• SettingFictional country ·Fictional location ·Fictional universe ·Utopia • ThemeMoral ·Motif • StyleDiction ·Figure of speech ·Imagery ·Literary technique ·Narrative mode ·Stylistic
device ·Suspension of disbelief ·Symbolism ·Tone • FormFable ·Fairy tale ·Flash
story ·Hypertext ·Novel ·Novella ·Play ·Poem ·Screenplay ·Short story ·List of narrative forms • GenreAdventure ·Comic ·Crime ·Docufiction ·Epistolary ·Erotic ·Faction ·Fantasy ·Historical
As I Lay Dying (1930) Absalom, Absalom! (1936) James Joyce: Eveline (1914) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) Ulysses (1922) Finnegans Wake (1939) J. D. Salinger: Seymour: An Introduction (1963) The Catcher in the Rye Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) The Waves (1931)
he began to write novels. 4. 4. His works: 19novles and a hundred shoபைடு நூலகம்t stories. 5. Most of them are setting on ______ 6. He is regarded as a _____ writer, but deals with
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Stream of consciousness (psychology)
• CharacterAntagonist ·False protagonist ·Foil character ·Protagonist ·Supporting character ·Tritagonist ·Viewpoint character
some of ______themes in literature. 7. His famous works: ______ 8. 5. In ______,he received the Nobel Price for Literature.
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About 20th Century’s American Literature
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Examples of some of novels using this
writing style:
Arthur Miller: The Death of a Salesman (1949) Flannery O’conner: A Good Man is Hard to Find (1952) Sherwood Anderson: The Untold Lie, Unlighted Lamps William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury (1929)
1. The characteristics of the fictions in 18th and 19th were of the upper class, all-knowing narrator and the characteristics of the fictions in 20th were of middle class, experimenting with different narrative voices.