The Study Of Space Narrative In Faulkner’s Novels

William Faulkner is one of America’s greatest writers in the twentieth century, he won the1949Nobel Prize for Literature. The domestic research about Faulkner can be described as voluminous, but the research is limited to the writer’s southern dream,"time","Yoknapatawpha descent", modernist creative skills and character analysis, etc. The emergence of the new criticism theory provides a new perspective for the study of William Faulkner’s works, this article is based on the text reading of Faulkner’s several novels, uses space narrative theories to discuss the time and space in Faulkner’s novels, combines the form research of Faulkner’s novels and research of the relationship between the novels and America’s history, aims to reveal Faulkner’s narrative works of aesthetic value, literature value and historical value, as well as Faulkner’s effort to reshape the world and concern of human in a spatial relationship.This thesis is divided into five parts. The first chapter,"Preface" briefly introduce Faulkner and the domestic research of Faulkner, and explains the research method of this article. The second chapter is "The presentation of Narrative Space", discusses the macro-geographical space, microscopic living space (such as residential space, internal family space) and envisions space in the performance of the novel content and construcion of novel structure. Chapter three is "Text spacial form of Faulkner’s novels", selects Faulkner’s several important novels, such as The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August, Wild Palms, A Rose for Emily to discuss the spacial form like orange petal, the juxtaposition of multiple stories, concentric-space form, counterpoint and montage. Also discusses the unique structural features of Faulkner’s novels, as well as its effect on the performance of the theme. The fourth chapter is "The spatial politics of Faulkner’s novels, uses Lefebvre’s "spatial triad" as the basic theoretic framework, this study analyses the people’s spatial practice in the face of racialism, reveals the racist discourse from a spatial perspective. This study reflects Faulkner’s thought of southern tradition and racism:racism and racial discrimination is an evil of the history of the south, as well as a malignant tumor of the southern society, only to eradicate the racism can the brightness come to the future of the South. The fifth chapter is the conclusion, explores the aesthetic significance, literary meaning and historical significance of Faulkner’s novels. His novel’s unique form shows a rich connotation of the theme, and provides a magnificent treasure for the world literature.