A rose for emily: A literary criticism.pptx

literary criticism of a rose for Emily

1. A rose for emily Short Story By: William Faulkner

2. Meet the author

3. William faulkner 1897-1962 Today, William Faulkner is considered one of the literary giants of the 2oth century.

4. William faulkner 1897-1962 This distinction didn’t come easily. Faulkner took a while to find himself and his subject.

5. William faulkner 1897-1962 Only after he decided to focus on his home state of Mississippi and his colorful family history was the full force of his creativity unleashed.

6. William faulkner 1897-1962 Pioneer of Modernist Fiction uses stream of consciousness (mimicking the flow of character’s thoughts to convey the subjective nature of experience)

7. William faulkner 1897-1962 Pioneer of Modernist Fiction uses stream of consciousness (mimicking the flow of character’s thoughts to convey the subjective nature of experience)

8. Narrative challenges A glance at Faulkner’s work would explain why readers and critics resisted his fiction.

9. Narrative challenges He wrote narratives on the cutting edge of the new modernism,

10. Narrative challenges He refused to compromise with the typical reader’s desire for a coherent, chronological story.

11. Narrative challenges His novel weave numerous flashbacks into multiple storylines.

12. Narrative challenges They push sentence length to new limits, and two of his best known modernist works increase reader’s challenge by using several highly unreliable narrators to tell the story.

13. resurgence In 1946, an enterprising editor named Malcolm Cowley published The Portable Faulkner , a collection of stories and novel excerpts that untangled Faulkner’s elaborate saga.

14. resurgence This sparked new interest in Faulkner With the anxieties of the Great Depression and World War II behind them, more readers were ready to accept Faulkner’s challenge:

15. resurgence To revisit the crimes and passions of the South- and America itself- through a modern consciousness.

16. And faulkner Southern Gothic

17. Southern gothic A literary tradition/ genre that came into its own in the early 20 th century. It is rooted in the Gothic style, which had been popular in European literature for many centuries.

18. Gothic writers Concocted wild, frightening scenarios in which mysterious secrets, supernatural occurences , and character’s extreme duress conspired to create a breathless reading experience.

19. Gothic writers Interested in exploring extreme, antisocial behaviors that were often a reaction against confining code of social conduct.

20. Featured certain set pieces and characters: Drafty castles laced with cobwebs Secret passages frightened wide-eyed heroines whose innocence does not go untouched

21. BACKGROUND

22. “A Rose for Emily”, like the majority of Faulkner’s stories, takes place in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.

23. Published in 1930 , the story portrays the customs of the small-town South at the turn of the 20 th century.