近年文学研究有空间转向的趋势,福克纳的短篇小说《献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》具有典型的时间空间特征:以女主人公艾米丽老屋内的葬礼场面开始又以其葬礼结束,小说文本的五个章节之间及各章节内部时间交错倒置,时间空间的交错与轮回构成的特殊叙事结构突出了女主角死亡命运的必然,增强了故事以置身于美国南部历史大变革年代的一位女性的命运为缩影彰显的时代悲剧主题,为小说主题的阐释增添新解。 In recent years, there has been a tendency of space turning in literary studies. Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” has the typical characteristics of time and space: starting with the funeral scene inside the heroine Emily’s old house, At the end of the story, the five chapters of the novel, as well as the interweave of the internal time in each chapter, the special narrative structure formed by the stagnation of time and space and the reincarnation highlighted the inevitability of the death of the heroine and strengthened the story to stay in the era of great historical change in the southern United States The fate of a woman epitomizes the tragedy of the times, adding a new interpretation of the theme of the novel.