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An Analysis of A Rose for Emily from the Perspective of Spatial Narrative
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2024.02.002
School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
The novel A Rose for Emily is one of the early works of William Faulkner, a famous American southern writer who has won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. Spatial narrative theory analyzes and summarizes the spatial characteristics of modern and postmodern novels, showing the narrative characteristics of the works that the time is disrupted and suspended, and the space is extended indefinitely. This paper intends to interpret A Rose for Emily from the perspective of spatial narrative theory, and analyze the geological space, social space and text space in the novel, so as to reveal the important role of spatial structure in creating atmosphere and promoting narrative process, in order to better grasp the spatial metaphors in Faulkner’s novels.
A Rose for Emily, topographical space, social space, textual space
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, February 2024, Vol. 14, No. 2, 118-123
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