A Systematic Study of Faulkner's Legacy in Contemporary American Literature

本文通过对威廉·福克纳的文学遗产中值得当代美国文学继承的几个方面的系统考察，首先抓住了福克纳小说的重要特征，并把重点放在他同时代的两位伟大作家托马斯·沃尔夫和尤金·奥尼尔身上，前者来自南方的皮埃蒙特，后者来自新英格兰：这些特点是：（1）对地域历史和身份的探索，（2）意识流的运用，（3）小说形式的不断更新，（4）原住民素材与实验性的现代小说形式的有机结合，（5）过去的现在性的历史感，（6）魔幻现实主义中超自然因素的引入;（7）人类现象的对立表现;（8）作品的编年史式结构;（9）家庭关系的心理学考察。 ...更多信息 其次，本文从福克纳小说世界的这些特点出发，揭示了南方社会在奴隶制和内战失败后所遭受的巨大苦难，第三，本文认为威廉·斯泰伦和托妮·莫里森是当代美国文学中福克纳遗产的真正继承者，他们的作品中包含着丰富的文化内涵和丰富的社会文化内涵。从中产阶级家庭悲剧中的父女乱伦关系来研究前者，而从肤色和目光的层次来探讨后者小说中的非裔美国人形象，一个与“种族“纠缠在一起的等级制度，这是近年来文学批评的一个热点问题。在本报告的最后，对这三位作者对奴隶制的关注和表现进行了简短的补充研究。少

Through a systematic exploration of some aspects of William Faulkner's literary legacy which should be pursued in contemporary American litera-ture, the present investigator first grasped the important characteristics of Faulkner's fiction, by focusing on his two contemporary great authors, Thomas Wolfe and Eugene O'Neill, the former from the Piedmont of the South, and the latter from New England : those characteristics are---(1) the exploration of the regional history and identidy, (2) the use of the stream of consciousness, (3) the incessant renovation of the form of the novel, (4) the organic combination of the aboriginal material and the experimental, modern novelist form, (5) the historical sense of the presentness of the past, (6) the introduction of the supernatural elements used in magic realism, (7) the antithetical representation of the human phenomena, (8) the chronicle-like construction of the oeuvre, (9) the psychological investigation of the famil-ial relationship as a ho … More tbed of human conflicts, (10) concern with the idea of metafiction, (11) the Calvinistic recognition of the environmental force as fatality.Next, based on these characteristics of Faulkner's fictional world, the present researcher made clear the peculial qualities of Southern society, which suffered from the great ordeal of the aftermath of the slavery and the defeat in the Civil War, employing two points of view of "race" and class, the essential viewpoints, together with gender, for the contemporary literary study.Thirdly, the present investigator, regarding William Styron and Toni Morrison as the authentic sucessors to Faulkner's legacy in contemporary American literature, studied the former in terms of the incestuous relation between father and daughter in the tragedy of the while middle-class family, while exploring in the latter's fiction the representation of African-Americans in light of the hierarchy of color and gaze, a hierarchy deeply entangled with "race, " a hot issue in the recent literary criticism. At the end of this report is placed a brief supplementary research concerning both these three autors' concern with and representation of the slavery. Less