A Tentative Analysis of Faulkner's Narrative Style in His Stream of Consciousness Novels

Faulkner's two stream-of-consciousness novels The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, manifest truly the social confusion and spirit crisis in America, esp. in the South of America after W W Ⅰ. The writer devoted to the reform of the novel, using new and particular writing techniques in his novels. He successfully introduced Freud's theroy of psychoanalysis and Pergson's psychological time theory into novel writing. Faulkner was unique in Space-time shifting and expressing disordered consciousness. Meanwhile, Faulkner boldly adopted the technique of multiple point of view, monologue, free association and montage and so on to reveal the characters' spiritual worlds and conscious movements.