Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is her representative work. McCullers deploys the skill of fugue pattern through the multi-voices reflected in the characters, tactfully unite the form and content into a whole. By adopting Bakhtin's theory of polyphony, this paper aims to analyze the fugue pattern together with its multi-voices in the three parts, namely, the exposition, the development and the return reflected in the novel, which highlights its theme of universal loneliness so impressively.
Initiation is an ever- lasting literary theme. This novel has long been typically assumed as a detective story by many readers as well as critics, but when we delve further into its essence and its major characters, it is not difficult to find that this novel is not only about an case of racial conflict in American South as it may appears, but more about the process of growing into maturity of a white American Southern boy amidst the raging noise of racial discrimination. This paper, proceeding from the theory of initiation story, aims to provide a new interpretation of William Faulkner's novel Intruder in the Dust. Based on the indepth textual analysis and the effective implementation of the theory of initiation story, the paper will explore the theme of initiation in the novel from two aspects, namely, the four basic elements of initiation story and the narrative structure of the initiation story. Therefore, a new point of view can be adopted to a better understanding of this novel.
The enormous change of the earlier 20thcentury has not only brought false prosperity to the society but also pushed people into spiritual wasteland. Indifference and alienation have replaced communication and trust among people or between one and self. By analyzing the alienation among people, the self-split of oneself and the reasons resulting these in William Faulkner's As I lay Dying, the concern of Faulkner about the social phenomenon and his pursuit of transcending the personal to a universal level will be better presented to us.
