Book contents
- Faulkner’s Cartographies of Consciousness
- Faulkner’s Cartographies of Consciousness
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Murder in the House of Memory
- Chapter 2 A Clock in Place of the Sun
- Chapter 3 Invasions of Interiority
- Chapter 4 When Ideology Wavers
- Chapter 5 Beyond the Tyranny of Textual Space
- Chapter 6 Architecture of Interiority
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - Architecture of Interiority
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2023
- Faulkner’s Cartographies of Consciousness
- Faulkner’s Cartographies of Consciousness
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Murder in the House of Memory
- Chapter 2 A Clock in Place of the Sun
- Chapter 3 Invasions of Interiority
- Chapter 4 When Ideology Wavers
- Chapter 5 Beyond the Tyranny of Textual Space
- Chapter 6 Architecture of Interiority
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This final chapter treats the Snopes trilogy as a clear-sighted affirmation of immanence and interiority that responds in a self-contained way to the whole of Faulkner’s study of complex systems as outlined in this book. In The Hamlet, the symbolism of the submerged woman offers Faulkner’s clearest portrayal of an immanent underlayer to our networked social systems, an underlayer that gives value and dignity to the individual life. Although there may be a chaotic quality to the expression of such individual forms of novelty, this does not mean that the larger networked process is blind. For Faulkner, individual experience serves as both a moral anchorage for the larger expression of the social body and an ever-present wellspring for social change. The Town and The Mansion continue to depict how such individual behavior can challenge vertical paradigms of top-down power, bestowing a mercurial quality to the New South and making it open to the possibilities of change.
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- Faulkner's Cartographies of Consciousness , pp. 179 - 211Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023