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Management number | 201806576 | Release Date | 2025/10/08 | List Price | $48.21 | Model Number | 201806576 | ||
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William Faulkner's fiction is still relevant today, addressing the anti-racism discourse and the threat to subjecthood in a technologically saturated civilization. This study combines literary critique with network and complexity science to offer a new reading of Faulkner as a novelist for the information age, highlighting his struggle to articulate the threat to human wellbeing and developing a humanism that affirms individual and interpersonal life as a source of novelty and social change.
Format: Unspecified
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 16 November 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
William Faulkner, a renowned author whose works continue to captivate readers, scholars, and critics alike, remains a significant figure in the literary landscape. In this groundbreaking book, the author presents a fresh and interdisciplinary perspective on Faulkner's enduring legacy, contending that his fiction holds immense relevance in the present day, just as it did during his own era. Faulkner's profound critique of his Southern heritage, in particular, resonates deeply with the ongoing anti-racism discourse of our contemporary world, addressing the urgent threat to individual subjectivity in a technologically saturated civilization. By seamlessly blending literary critique with network and complexity science, this study offers a novel interpretation of William Faulkner as a novelist in the age of information. Throughout his career, Faulkner grapples with the challenge of expressing the peril posed to human well-being within rapidly expanding social systems. Gradually, he develops a profound humanism that celebrates the individual and interpersonal life as sources of innovation and social transformation. This book is a testament to Faulkner's enduring influence and his ability to engage with the most pressing issues of his time, making him a vital and dynamic figure in the world of literature.
Weight: 518g
Dimension: 159 x 236 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781009377850
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