Faulkner's Cartographies of Consciousness

William Faulkner Continues To Be An Author Who Is Widely Read Studied And Admired. This Book Provides A New And Interdisciplinary Account Of Faulkner''S Legacy Arguing That His Fiction Is Just As Relevant Today As It Was During His Own Time. Indeed Faulkner''S Far-Reaching Critique Of His Southern Heritage Speaks Directly To The Anti-Racism Discourse Of Our Own Time And Engages The Dire Threat To Subjecthood In A Technologically Saturated Civilization. Combining Literary Critique With Network And Complexity Science This Study Offers A New Reading Of William Faulkner As A Novelist For The Information Age. Over The Course Of His Career We Find An Artist Struggling To Articulate The Threat To Human Wellbeing In Rapidly Scaling Social Systems And GraduallyDeveloping A Hard-Won Humanism That Affirms The Individual And Interpersonal Life As A Source Of Novelty And Social Change.