William Faulkner has exerted tremendous influence on world literature. The Sound and the Fury （1929） is one of his most famous, and yet his most disputed, novels. As a result of his use of the polyphonic technique, the novel acquires a complexity in both style and meaning. Without an in-depth analysis of its polyphonic feature, it would be difficult to clarify its complex meaning.My thesis will employ Bakhtin’s theory of the polyphonic novel in study of The Sound and the Fury. It is my contentio... 

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【學位級別】：碩士

【文章目錄】：
Declaration
英文摘要
Key words
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
    1.1. General Introduction
    1.2. Literature Review
    1.3. Thesis Statement
    1.4. Methodology
    1.5. Structure
Chapter 2 A Carnivalesque Time-Space World
    2.1. The Chronotopic theory: Dialogicity in a Specific Time-Space
    2.2. The Carnivalesque World: Grotesque Realism & the Carnival Square
    2.3. A Unique Time-Space
    2.4. Summary
Chapter 3 Carnival Figures
    3.1. Carnival and Dialogicity
    3.2. The Invisible King: Caddy
    3.3. Other Carnival Figures
        3.3.1. The ”Idiot”: Benjy
        3.3.2. The Neurotic: Quentin
        3.3.3. The Paranoiac: Jason
    3.4. Summary
Chapter 4 Competing Dialogic Sense of Truth in the Polyphonic World
    4.1. The Dialogue Theory: Authoring a Hero
    4.2. Polyphonic Dialogues among Narrators
        4.2.1. Section Ⅰ April seventh 1928: Benjy's Narrative
        4.2.2. Section Ⅱ June second 1910: Quentin's Narrative
        4.2.3. Section Ⅲ April sixth 1928: Jason's Narrative
    4.3. The Inner Dialogue
    4.4. From Inner Dialogue to a Great Dialogue
    4.5. The Open-endedness of the Novel
    4.6. Summary
Chapter 5 Conclusion
Bibliography



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