1951 was another busy year to Faulkner. He went to Hollywood again in February for five weeks scriptwriting for Howard Hawks(American film director). Notes on a Horsethief was also published in February. This year he Received National Book Award for Fiction in March for Collected Stories. And then he left for a three-week trip to France and England in April. In July, he went to New York to work for one week on stage version of Requiem for a Nun. In late October, he received Legion of Honor in New Orleans
From 1952 to 1962, it was the last decade to Faulkner, who is now still leading a busy and dramatically life. He was absolutely a fan of alcohol. In these ten years, he traveled frequently to New York and Europe. Besides that, he had his first trip to Manila, Philippines, in 1955. He also made some addresses in this period. A Fable was published in 1954, which accepted National Book Award for Fiction on Jan. 25, 1955, also won the Pulitzer Prize in May. 1957, he accepted Silver Medal of Greek Academy. The Town published May 1 in the same year. 1958, The Mansion was published. 毕业论文http://www.youerw.com/
In Faulkner’ final year, he suffered not only the pain but also tasted the joy. First he was injured in fall from the horse in January. In May, he accepted Gold Medal for Fiction of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in New York. The last work of him—The Reivers was published in June. Only after one day entering the hospital in Byhalia, Mississippi, he died because of a heart attack. One day after, he was buried in St. Peter’s Cemetery in Oxford.
3 Historical and cultural background of southern America
Before the discussion of Faulkner and the American southern literature, we may have a general understanding of the cultural and historical background of southern United States. There are two major conflicted features in between the southern part and northern part.原文请+QQ752018766 优.文^论,文'网
Firstly, before the civil war, many traditional historians think that the Union came apart after Abraham Lincoln’s election, rest on the irreconcilable political and economic differences between North and South over slavery. Yet the long build-up to it also involved concerted efforts on both sides to construct self-serving pseudo-ethnic and civic identities. These identities consciously exaggerated the cultural antipathy between the two sections — and contributed greatly to their eventual split.