In a ground-breaking and insightful study, Professor Sowder brings the insights and perspectives of the existential-phenomenologist philosophers to a new analysis of Faulkner's major fictional characters. The method of focusing on the characters' acts fo consciousness, as opposed to various other Faulkner readings (mythological, symbolic, Jungian, etc.) give an elegant completeness to Faulkner criticism. This text is an impressive addition to Sowden's earlier books and articles on Emerson and Faulkner.