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1. Extending modernist stream-of-consciousness aesthetics: Digital variations on William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

   In the development of The Sound and the Fury (1929), William Faulkner proposed using coloured text to help the reader navigate the work’s stream-of-consciousness. Subsequent editors and textual critics have produced colourized versions of Faulkner’s novel. Inspired by these colourized print texts, the born-digital novel Little Emperor Syndrome (2018) was developed. This digital literary work and practice-led research explores the potential of born-digital modes to reimagine modernist stream-of-consciousness through recombinant poetics as defined by Bill Seaman (2001). Little Emperor Syndrome utilizes a stream-of-consciousness style inspired by the first and second (Benjy and Quentin) chapters of The Sound and the Fury. Using recombinant poetics, this digital text also allows the reader to recombine the text (or lexias) in various modes: ‘stream-of-consciousness’ (i.e. similar to Faulkner’s style), ‘cosmos’ (chronological), and ‘chaos’ (random).

   David Wright - 20.09.2021 - 10:54