Teaching Faulkner I / James B. Carothers and Robert W. Hamblin. Yerby AuditoriumTeaching Faulkner II / Arlie E. Herron and Charles A. Peek. Barnard Observator

Carothers, James B.

Hamblin, Robert W.

Herron, Arlie E.

Peek, Charles A.

English

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FAULKNER IN CULTURAL CONTEXTJOHN McCRADY (1911-1968) Oxford on the Hill 1939Multistage oil on canvas 33 x 40 inches Collection of the City of OxfordThe University of Mississippi Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha ConferenceOxford, Mississippi, July 30-August 4, 1995The University of Mississippi announces the Twenty-second Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. The conference is sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, 601-232-5993, FAX 601-232-5814.PROGRAMSUNDAY, JULY 309:00 REGISTRATIONBarnard Observatory1:00 RECEPTIONSquare Art: Images of a Town University Museums2:30 OPENING SESSIONEducation AuditoriumWELCOMEChancellor Robert C. KhayatPRESENTATION OF EUDORA WELTY AWARDS IN CREATIVE WRITING William FerrisDRAMATIC READINGSFROM FAULKNER'S FICTIONVoices from YoknapatawphaSelected and Arranged by Evans Harrington Howard L. Bahr, Randy Cross, Cathleen Coers Davis,Betty Harrington, and John Horhn5:00 FAUX FAULKNER CONTEST: BACKGROUND AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS William Boozer, Barry Hannah, Dean Faulkner Wells, and Lawrence Wells Rowan Oak5:30 BUFFET SUPPERHoworth Home/Old Taylor Road8:00 A LITERARYAPPROACH TO CULTURAL STUDY: THE EXAMPLE OF FAULKNER Sacvan BercovitchEducation Auditorium9:30 PARTYSquare BooksMONDAY, JULY 319:00 FAULKNER AND PROLETARIAN FICTION John T. Matthews Education Auditorium10:30 THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF PATERNALISM: SANCTUARY'S CULTURAL CONTEXT Kevin RaileyEducation Auditorium1:30 THE CULTURE OF SEXUALITYAnne Goodwyn Jones Education Auditorium3:00 KNOWING WILLIAM FAULKNER J. M. Faulkner Education Auditorium8:00 THE WILD PALMS AND THE GREAT MIGRATION: HISTORY IN BLACK AND WHITE Cheryl LesterEducation AuditoriumTUESDAY, AUGUST 19:00 GUIDED TOURS OF NORTH MISSISSIPPIOXFORD AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY I (Overview)Evans Harrington and Howard DuvallOXFORD AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY II (Architecture)Beckett Howorth IIIHOLLY SPRINGS Alice M. BuchananNEW ALBANY AND RIPLEYRobert W. Hamblin and Tommy CovingtonPONTOTOCForrest Tutor and Michael DeanTHE MISSISSIPPI DELTA Mary Hartwell Howorth, Carl Butler, and Thomas J. Reardon5:00 NOYES/SMITH/KULLMAN PARTY Tyler Place8:00 PEACEFARE: FAULKNER, MILITARY CULTURE, AND THE SECOND THIRTY YEARS WAR Warwick Wadlington Education AuditoriumWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28:30 TEACHING FAULKNER IJames B. Carothers and Robert W. HamblinYerby AuditoriumTEACHING FAULKNER IIArlie E. Herron and Charles A. Peek Barnard Observatory10:30 NOT LISTENING TO THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE TALK: GENERATION X GOES TO THE LUXEMBOURG GARDENS Dawn TrouardEducation Auditorium1:30 SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONSLITERATURE AND CULTURE Sacvan Bercovitch, Anne Goodwyn Jones, and Kevin RaileyEducation AuditoriumCULTURE AND LITERATURE Dawn Trouard, John T. Matthews, and Warwick WadlingtonBarnard Observatory3:00 FAULKNER IN OXFORDM. C. Falkner, ModeratorHoward Duvall, Mildred Murray Hopkins, Chester McLarty, and Patricia Young Education Auditorium4:40 WALK THROUGH BAILEY'S WOODS5:30 PICNIC AT ROWAN OAK8:00 FAULKNER AND THE POST-CONFEDERATE Neil SchmitzEducation AuditoriumTHURSDAY, AUGUST 39:00 FAULKNER'S HISTORY: SOURCES AND INTERPRETATIONSDon H. DoyleEducation Auditorium10:30 LIGHT IN AUGUST: A NOVEL OF PASSING?M. Gena McKinley Education AuditoriumFREE AFTERNOON8:00 A READINGMarilynne Robinson Education AuditoriumFRIDAY, AUGUST 48:30 TEACHING FAULKNER IJames B. Carothers and Robert W. Hamblin Barnard ObservatoryTEACHING FAULKNER IIArlie E. Herron and Charles A. PeekYerby Center10:30 FAULKNER AND FRONTIER GROTESQUE:THE HAMLET AS SOUTHWESTERN HUMOR Peter Alan Froehlich Education Auditorium1:30 TECHNOLOGIES OF REMOVAL:THE FILMING OF INTRUDER IN THE DUST Charles HannonEducation Auditorium3:00 DISCUSSION SESSIONFAULKNER IN CULTURAL CONTEXT: A REVIEWDon H. Doyle, Peter Alan Froehlich,Charles Hannon, Cheryl Lester, M. Gena McKinley, and Neil SchmitzEducation Auditorium5:00 CLOSING PARTYThe Gary Home/910 BuchananPROGRAM STAFFSacvan Bercovitch is the Charles Carswell Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University. He has written or edited a dozen volumes, including The Puritan Origins of the American Self, The American Jeremiad, The Office of "The Scarlet Letter": Ideology and Classic American Literature, and the first vol­ume of the new Cambridge History of American Literature. He has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Guggenheim Foundation, the John Carter Brown Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1994-95 he was the Times-Mirror Visiting Professor of American Literature at the Huntington Library.James B. Carothers, professor of English at the University of Kansas, is a member of the editorial board of the Faulkner Journal. He is the author of William Faulkner's Short Stories and several essays, among them "The Road to The Reivers," "The Myriad Heart: The Evolution of the Faulkner Hero," and "Faulkner's Short Stories: 'And Now What's to Do.'"Don H. Doyle is professor of history at Vanderbilt University and is the author of New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910, as well as other studies of Southern history. He is currently working on a history of Lafayette County, with special attention to the ways in which Faulkner's historical fiction can illuminate our understanding of Southern history.J. M. Faulkner is an accomplished storyteller whose lectures and publications are filled with colorful and deftly related anecdotes about his family and life in Mississippi. His slide lecture program, "Knowing William Faulkner," presented at colleges and universi­ties across the nation, provides unique insight into the personali­ty of his famous uncle.Peter Alan Froehlich is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Mississippi, with an M.A. from Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. from Georgetown University. In addition to having delivered papers at graduate student conferences at Kent State University and the University of Kentucky, as well as at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Philological Association, he is cochair of Southern Writers, Southern Writing, a graduate student conference to be held July 29-30, 1995, at the University of Mississippi.Robert W. Hamblin is professor of English and director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University. In addition to publishing essays on William Faulkner in various books and journals, he coedited Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, a multivolume work published by the University Press of Mississippi. He is also coed­itor of the Teaching Faulkner newsletter.Evans Harrington, professor emeritus of English at the University of Mississippi, directed the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference from its founding in 1974 through 1993. His publications include novels, short stories, literary essays, and book reviews. Also, he wrote the script for the docu­mentary Faulkner's Mississippi: Land into Legend and the book and lyrics for The Battle of Harrykin Creek, a musical comedy based on a Faulkner short story.Arlie E. Herron is George C. Connor Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He serves on the Biennial Chattanooga Conference on Southern Literature Committee and, as its first chair in 1981, organized a program that included addresses by Margaret Walker Alexander, Cleanth Brooks, Andrew Lytle, Walker Percy, and Eudora Welty.Anne Goodwyn Jones received the Jules F. Landry Award for Tomorrow Is Another Day: The Woman Writer in the South, 1859- 1938, a book that combines biography, social history, feminist crit­icism, and textual analysis. Associate professor of English at the University of Florida, she is the author of Theory and the Good Old Boys: White Masculinity in the South. She also coedited Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts with Susan Donaldson.Donald M. Kartiganer is coeditor of Theories of American Literature and the author of The Fragile Thread: The Meaning of Form in Faulkner's Novels. His essays on Faulkner and other authors have appeared in journals and such collections as Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Compson Family and The Psychoanalytic Study of Literature. He is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi and director of the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.Cheryl Lester is associate professor of English and American Studies at the University of Kansas. Her study, Faulkner and the Great Migration, will appear in 1996 as a volume in the Cambridge Series in American Literature and Culture. She is the coeditor of two books in progress: Letters from Black Migrants, 1916-17 and Going North: A Documentary History of the Great Migration, as well as the author of numerous essays, reviews, and public presenta­tions on Faulkner and the implications of his Southern contexts.M. Gena McKinley is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Virginia. Having received two M.A. degrees, in phi­losophy and in English, at the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia, she has also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.John T. Matthews, professor of English at Boston University, is the author of The Play of Faulkner's Language and "The Sound and the Fury": Faulkner and the Lost Cause, as well as numerous essays on Faulkner in leading journals and collections. He has recently received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a book titled Raising the South: Literary Modernism and the Imagination of History.Charles A. Peek is associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He has also taught at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where he earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees and wrote a dissertation on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Among his publications are Literature and Criticism and two versions of Common Errors: A Book of Remedies for Writers.Kevin Railey is assistant professor of English at Buffalo State College. He has published and presented a number of essays on Faulkner, George Eliot, and Robert and Elizabeth Browning, as well as the relationship between rhetoric and ideology. He is cur­rently at work on a booklength study, The Past Is Not Dead: William Faulkner, History, and Ideology.Marilynne Robinson is the author of the acclaimed novel Housekeeping and the powerful and controversial study Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution. The author of numerous essays and reviews in such journals as Granta and Harper's, she is presently on the faculty of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.Neil Schmitz, professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, is the author of Of Buck and Alice: Humorous Writing in American Literature and essays on a wide range of sub­jects, from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Barthelme, and including such figures and topics as William Lloyd Garrison, Civil War pho­tography, regional humor, Native American texts, Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Robert Coover, and Ishmael Reed. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984-85 for a study of the Civil War.Dawn Trouard is professor of English and associate professor of academic affairs at the University of Akron. Currently managing editor of the Faulkner Journal, she is coeditor of Eudora Welty: Eye of the Storyteller and coauthor of the forthcoming volume Reading Faulkner's "Sanctuary." She has been a Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Catania, Italy.Warwick Wadlington is the Joan Negley Kelleher Centennial Professor at the University of Texas. He is the author of The Confidence Game in American Literature, Reading Faulknerian Tragedy, and "As I Lay Dying": Stories Out of Stories, as well as a wide range of essays on such writers as Melville, Nathanael West, Theodore Dreiser, and Wallace Stevens.OTHER PROGRAM PARTICIPANTSHoward L. Bahr William Boozer Alice M. Buchanan Carl ButlerTommy Covington Randy CrossCathleen Coers Davis Michael DeanHoward Duvall M. C. Falkner Barry Hannah Betty Harrington Mildred Murray HopkinsJohn HorhnBeckett Howorth III Mary Hartwell Howorth Chester A. McLarty No-Name Jazz BandOxford JazzThomas J. Reardon Cynthia Shearer Forrest Tutor Dean Faulkner Wells Lawrence WellsPatricia YoungMcCRADY POSTERS AND VIDEOSOxford on the Hill, by John McCrady (1911-1968), is used as the illustration for the 1995 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference poster and program courtesy of the City of Oxford, owner of the painting. Political Rally, set on the town's square, was used as the illustration for the 1994 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference poster.John McCrady was born in Canton, Mississippi, and lived in Oxford in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He attended the University of Mississippi, studied art in New Orleans and New York, and during the Depression worked for the WPA's Federal Art Project. Later, in 1942, he founded the John McCrady Art School of New Orleans and served as its director and instructor until his death in 1968. Oxford and its surrounding countryside provided a major source of artistic inspiration for McCrady throughout his life.John McCrady's Southern Scene, a 30-minute documentary on the life and times of the artist, will be shown on the campus television station during the conference. Matthew J. Martinez produced the documentary in association with WYES and Choupique Productions of New Orleans and with grant support from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.Copies of the McCrady video and the 1994 and 1995 conference posters illustrated with his painting are available through the Southern Culture Catalog produced by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Conference posters with illustrations by Glennray Tutor—"Faulkner and Religion" (1989), "Faulkner and the Short Story" (1990), "Faulkner and Psychology" (1991), "Faulkner and Ideology" (1992), and "Faulkner and the Artist" (1993)—are also available.SPECIAL COLLECTIONSThe Department of Archives and Special Collections of the University's John Davis Williams Library is temporarily located at College Hill Academy, four miles beyond the Cedars Restaurant on College Hill Road. Hours are 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, except for University holidays. For more infor­mation, call 601-234-6091.ANNUAL EXHIBIT OF UNIVERSITYPRESS BOOKSBooks published by members of the American Association of University Presses will be exhibited at the Alumni House Auditorium from Monday, July 31, through noon on Friday, August 4. The AAUP book exhibit is sponsored by the University Press of Mississippi.SPECIAL THANKSThe conference organizers are grateful to all the individuals and organizations who support Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha annu­ally and offer special thanks this year to Mrs. Jack Cofield, the Gary Family, Dr. and Mrs. M. B. Howorth Jr., Dr. Colby Kullman, Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Noyes, Dr. and Mrs. Allie M. Smith, Mr. Richard Howorth of Square Books, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, the City of Oxford, the Oxford Tourism Council, the Mississippi Department of Economic and Community Development, Bottletree Bakery, Jack Daniel Distillery, and American Way, the magazine of American Airlines.The University of MississippiThe University complies with all applicable laws regarding affirmative action and equal opportunity in all its activities and programs and does not discriminate against anyone protected by law because of age, creed, color, disability, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, handicap, veteran, or status as disabled or Vietnam-era veteran.Produced by The University Publishing Center, 95-218.

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