喧哗与骚动中的多元叙事进程

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The task of developing an academic thesis and giving yet another more analysis to

a previously fully explored novel is too exciting and challenging for anyone to go it

alone. As an object of inquiry, it is complex enough to accommodate in this paper such

insightful achievements made by the forerunners in the narrative field. I am therefore

grateful to be able to name at least some professors, friends and fellow students who

helped make this thesis possible, enriching my own understanding of a novel and

experience in writing the paper.

I thank, first, Professor Ye Shengnian, my supervisor for early consultations that

helped give shape to this thesis. I also thank my friend Dr. Mao Yanan for his invaluable

advice while I was soliciting, assembling the needed materials and was embarking on

the writing of this thesis. Professor Ye’s careful and extensive reports on a first draft of

this thesis helped me rethink the introduction and enabled me to clarify and refine the

whole thesis. To those whose fruitful study paved the way for my further exploration I

offer a blanket statement of gratitude: without their keen insights and hard work this

thesis would have simply not existed. I’m grateful as well to Phillip Gllan, who helped

me revise the introduction and the conclusion and gave a detailed advice on many

aspects.

I owed a special debt to Professor Jin Wenning for her relentless commitment to

academic work which has encouraged me and spurred me on in the literary study and

for her wonderful lecture which has inspired me a lot in attempting to carry out any

concrete study of a literary work.

More generally, I would like to thank Professor Deng Zhiyong, Wang Bin, Wu

Yuxing, Dai Weihua, Zheng Xiaoyuan, Wang Defu, from whose courses during my

study I leant what would benefit my thesis greatly.

ABSTRACT

William Faulkner is considered one of the best writers not only in the United States

but also in the world. The instant The Sound and the Fury came out it was accepted

warmly. This novel, like Faulkner’s previous effort, explores the deep south of the

United States in the period of the transition following the Civil War, and demonstrating

his great ability to grasp the living and history of his country

In The Sound and the Fury the writer employs the stream of consciousness to

ensure that the narrative is told through multiple-points of view and with alternative

sequencing of time. Moreover, the main line that carries the narrative forward in each of

the three sections out of the total of four has almost no any genuine plots a traditional

novel should have and these four parts are connected to a certain extent so that the

information of each part complement each other to bring them into a whole. These

factors combined together make the novel a difficult reading.

In view of this, the writer of this thesis thinks it necessary to give the novel an

in-depth analysis of its multiplicity of narrative perspective and diversity of narrative

progression and the deferred and suppressed information caused by their combination

by making use of the available commentaries by the scholars who have already claimed

in the field of narratology so that Faulkner’s novel can prove itself an elaborate writing

for construction. The introduction of this thesis is mainly devoted to a brief review of

current trends in the exploration of the novel approached via the perspective of

narratology and why the author embarks on this thesis.

The first chapter of this thesis is dedicated to a brief analysis of the three brothers

who serve as not only the fictional characters but also the narrators in the novel, of their

personality, their roles to the narratives, and their language performance. Then the

second chapter is thrown in to give a discussion of its diversity of narrative progression

on the basis of the multiple narrative perspectives in terms of the text generation. The

writer argues that the construction of this novel is, above all, a demonstration of rhetoric

progression or trajectory, namely it isn’t unfolded along the chronological sequencing

typical of any traditional novel. The narrative, having no genuine causal relation, seems

to be arranged to meet a certain rhetorical effect. And it can be pointed out that the

novel lacks the plot of a novel. As such, we might as well declare that what a novel is all

about is its theme and this is what William Faulkner wants to achieve.

Another major concern in this regard is the verbal generators. Every section of the

novel has marked characteristics in terms of language performance but these languages

are not used to describe these narrators and what the novel mainly shows. Rather they

are used to match the narrator’s personality and serve as the vehicle around which the

narration unrolls. In their narration, some objects, names and even a certain smell can

more often than not give rise to a new act or a passage of a narrator’s personal

monologue, so much so that a sentence in a Quentin’s part is frequently disrupted only

to regain its course shortly after.

The third chapter of this thesis is devoted to the exploration of the novel’s narrative

progression and its multiple trajectories from the perspective of the sequencing of time

(physical and psychological). Full illustration has been given to how the novel The

Sound and the Fury assumes a progressive narrative progression from both physical and

psychological sequencing of time.

While in the fourth chapter, the author of this thesis finds it necessary to bypass the

phenomenon of what others call retelling and the repeating narration to focus on the

deferred and suppressed information resulting from the novel’s narrative arrangement.

The whole novel moves from one section to another with information piling up to fill

the void the previous section leaves.

Key Words: Narrative Progression, Text Generators, Psychological and

Physical Time Sequencing, Progressive Narrative progression,

Deferred and Suppressed Information

摘要

威廉福克纳是美国乃至世界文学史上杰出的小说作家。他的小说《喧哗与骚

动》一出版便大获成功。作者在这一部小说中继续着他南方小说的探索，体现了

其对生活和历史的高度概括能力。

小说中大量使用了现代主义意识流技巧，并采用了多角度叙事以及时序倒错

手法。不仅如此该小说由四个章节构成，其中就有三个章节中描写的当前发生的

事情几乎构不成任何小说应有的情节，而这四个章节竟然又在某种层面上相互补

缀使信息得以完整，这些因素无不让人读来甚是难懂。

正是基于这种发现，笔者觉得有必要运用叙事学领域的现有成果对这种集叙

事进程与轨迹的多样性于一体的现象进行深入分析，找出该小说精心架构，谋篇

布局的合理性。本文导论部分简要介绍了小说的大致主题以及当前其他评论家从

叙事角度对它所做的探索。第一章简单介绍了三个小说人物也即叙事者各自的特

点和各自所扮演的功能。第二章从文本生成方面对该小说的叙事进程及轨迹的多

样性进行探讨。笔者认为，该小说的建构首先大致呈现了修辞性叙事进程或轨迹。

也就是说在小说的各个部分中他们并没有按照一般小说那样由起因、经过、发展、

到高潮、结尾发展的顺序。叙事的安排不仅没有多少逻辑上的因果关联而且几乎

纯粹是出于修辞方面的考虑，它甚至在很大程度上还缺少了作为一部完整小说所

必要的故事情节，故事线条纷繁芜杂。这样说来我们不妨可以断定这部小说并不

是要给我们讲什么故事或者用故事来体现它试图体现的主题，它就是彻彻底底地

围绕主题来展开。

本文还着重谈到了另一个重要的文本生成形式。小说中三兄弟各自叙述的部

分中颇具语言特色，这些语言并非用来体现小说人物的特点而是利用人物的特点

来选择语言以期推动叙事发展。在他们的叙事中某些物体、名称、甚至气味等都

往往能引起新的动作或者某个内心独白发生，更有甚者在小说人物兼叙事者昆丁

的叙述中，一段话里或者一句话里往往突然间就插入一段独白而独白之后这段话、

这个句子竟然又能够完整的接续上。

本文的第三章则以情节为基础从时间结构上对文章叙事进程或轨迹进行梳

理。笔者在这里主要借鉴了柏格森的时间理论概念。即将这部小说分物理时间和

心理时间来探讨。充分论述了这部小说是如何从这两个层面上循着渐次推进的叙

事进程路线。

第四章则探讨了经作者这样安排小说的叙事进程或轨迹之后，如何出现了

信息的延宕和压制现象，并交代了这些信息的延宕和压制怎样得以消解。

关键词：叙事进程文本生成心理和物理时序渐进式叙事进程

信息的延宕和压制

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