Litz, A. Walton

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FAULKNER AND THE NATURAL WORLDWilliam Faulkner at home, 1962 Photograph by Martin J. Dain © Center for the Study of Southern Culture The University of MississippiThe University of Mississippi Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha ConferenceOxford, Mississippi, July 28-August 2, 1996The University of Mississippi announces the Twenty-third Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. The conference is sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and coordinated by the Center for Public Service and Continuing Studies.For information, contact Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, Center for Public Service and Continuing Studies, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677. Telephone 601-232-7282. FAX 601-232-5138.PROGRAMSUNDAY, JULY 289:00 REGISTRATIONYerby Center1:00 RECEPTIONTom Rankin PhotographsUniversity Museums2:30 OPENING SESSIONEducation AuditoriumWELCOMEProvost Gerald W. WaltonPRESENTATION OF EUDORA WELTY AWARDSIN CREATIVE WRITINGWilliam FerrisANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNER OFFAUX FAULKNER CONTESTDean Faulkner Wells and Lawrence WellsDRAMATIZATIONS FROM FAULKNER’S FICTIONDirected by Cindy Gold5:30 BUFFET SUPPERHoworth Home/Old Taylor Road8:00 FAULKNER’S FICTION AND THE CLAIMS OF THENATURAL WORLDLawrence BuellEducation AuditoriumMONDAY, JULY 299:00 THE ART OF THE LITERAL IN LIGHT IN AUGUSTJay WatsonEducation Auditorium10:30 GETTING AROUND THE BODY: THE MATTER OFRACE AND GENDER IN FAULKNER’SLIGHT IN AUGUSTMary Joanne DondlingerEducation Auditorium1:30 THOMAS SUTPEN’S MARRIAGE TO THE DARKBODY OF THE LANDLouise WestlingEducation Auditorium3:00 KNOWING WILLIAM FAULKNERJ. M. Faulkner and Meg Faulkner DuChaineEducation Auditorium8:00 FAULKNER AND THE UNNATURALMyra JehlenEducation AuditoriumTUESDAY, JULY 309:00 GUIDED TOURS OF NORTH MISSISSIPPIOXFORD AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY I (Overview)Evans Harrington and Howard DuvallOXFORD AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY II (Architecture)Beckett Howorth IIICOLUMBUSCarl Butler and Chuck YarboroughHOLLY SPRINGSJean LiddyNEW ALBANY AND RIPLEYRobert W. Hamblin and Tommy CovingtonPONTOTOCForrest Tutor and Michael DeanTHE MISSISSIPPI DELTAMary Hartwell Howorth and Bob Bailey5:00 NOYES PARTY130 Leighton Road8:00 EULA, LINDA, AND THE DEATH OF NATURE IN THE SNOPES TRILOGYDiane RobertsEducation AuditoriumWEDNESDAY, JULY 318:30 TEACHING FAULKNER I: “THE BEAR” Robert W. Hamblin and James B. Carothers Yerby AuditoriumTEACHING FAULKNER II: FAULKNER’S DIRT Charles A. PeekBarnard Observatory10:30 OVERSEXING THE NATURAL WORLD: MOSQUITOES AND THE WILD PALMS Thomas L. McHaney Education Auditorium1:30 SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONSFAULKNER AND THE BODYMary Joanne Dondlinger, Jay Watson, and Louise Westling Education AuditoriumFAULKNER, NATURE, THE “NATURAL”Lawrence Buell, Myra Jehlen, Thomas L. McHaney, and Diane RobertsBarnard Observatory Lecture Hall3:00 FAULKNER IN OXFORDM. C. Falkner, ModeratorHoward Duvall, Robert Ashford Little, and Patricia Young Education Auditorium4:40 WALK THROUGH BAILEY’S WOODS5:30 PICNIC AT ROWAN OAK8:00 FAULKNER: THE “LOCAL,” THE REGIONAL, THE INTERNATIONALA. Walton LitzEducation AuditoriumTHURSDAY, AUGUST 19:00 UNSURPRISED FLESH: COLOR, RACE, AND IDENTITY IN FAULKNER’S FICTION Theresa M. Towner Education Auditorium10:30 TAKING THE PLACE OF NATURE: “THE BEAR” AND THE INCARNATION OF AMERICA David EvansEducation AuditoriumNoon BOOK SIGNINGWilliam KennedySquare BooksFREE AFTERNOON8:00 A READINGWilliam KennedyEducation AuditoriumFRIDAY, AUGUST 28:30 TEACHING FAULKNER I:FAULKNER’S USE OF LANDSCAPEArlie E. HerronBarnard ObservatoryTEACHING FAULKNER II: OPEN TOPICRobert W. Hamblin, James Carothers, and Charles A. Peek Yerby Center10:30 RETURN OF THE BIG WOODS: HUNTING AND HABITAT IN YOKNAPATAWPHA Wiley Charles Prewitt Jr.Education Auditorium1:30 DISCUSSION SESSIONFAULKNER AND THE NATURAL WORLD:A REVIEWDavid Evans, A. Walton Litz, Wiley Charles Prewitt Jr., and Theresa M. Towner Education Auditorium5:00 CLOSING PARTYThe Lowe Home/911 South LamarPROGRAM STAFFLawrence Buell is professor of English at Harvard University, and has recently completed a four-year term as Dean for Undergraduate Education. He is the author of Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance, New England Literary Culture: From Revolution Through Renaissance, and The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. He has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.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 Faulkners 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.’”Mary Joanne Dondlinger recently completed her M.A. at Arizona State University and is the author of forthcoming essays on Emily Dickinson and Faulkner.David Evans recently completed his Ph.D. degree at Rutgers University, with a dissertation titled “Communities of Confidence: William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition.”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 all over the nation, provides unique insight into the personality of his famous uncle.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 Faulkners Mississippi: Land into Legend, a documentary film, 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.Myra Jehlen is the Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University. She is the author of Class and Character in Faulkners South, American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent, The Literature of Colonization: 1590-1800 in the Cambridge Literary History of the United States, and a forthcoming volume, The Literature of Colonization in English. She has received fellowships and grants from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.Donald M. Kartiganer is the Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi and director of the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. He is the author of The Fragile Thread: The Meaning of Form in Faulkner’s Novels and coeditor, with Malcolm Griffith, of Theories of American Literature and, with Ann Abadie, of four volumes of proceedings of the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.William Kennedy is the author of the critically acclaimed “Albany Cycle” of novels, including Legs, Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, Ironweed (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award), Quinn’s Book, Very Old Bones, and the recently released The Flaming Corsage. A playwright and screenwriter, he wrote the motion picture adaptation of Ironweed. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France, and is the founder and director of the New York State Writers Institute.Thomas L. McHaney is Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University. He is the author of William Faulkners “The Wild Palms”: A Study and numerous essays on Faulkner and other Southern writers, and is coeditor of the 44-vol- ume edition of facsimiles of Faulkner’s literary manuscripts. He has also published several short stories and has had four plays produced by Atlanta theater companies.A. Walton Litz is Holmes Professor of Literature at Princeton University. He has written or edited more than 20 volumes, including The Art of James Joyce, Jane Austen: A Study of Her Artistic Development, Introspective Voyager: The Poetic Development of Wallace Stevens, Modern Literary Criticism, 1900-1970, The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, and the Prentice Hall Anthology of American Literature. He has received grants and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society.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 1 Lay Dying. Among his publications are Literature and Criticism and two versions of Common Errors: A Book of Remedies for Writers.Wiley Charles Prewitt Jr. received an M.A. in history from the University of Mississippi in 1991. He recently completed For the Sake of Future Generations: A History of Organized Wildlife Conservation in Mississippi, 1890-1995, an exhibition at the Museum of Natural Science in Jackson, Mississippi, and is currently at work on an envi- ronmental history of hunting in Mississippi.Diane Roberts is associate professor of English at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Faulkner and Southern Womanhood and The Myth of Aunt Jemima: Representations of Race and Region. She has been a consultant for BBC Radio and a frequent commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Weekend Edition.Theresa M. Towner is Lecturer in English at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author of essays on Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and T. S. Eliot, and is the secretary-treasurer of the Faulkner Society.OTHER PROGRAM PARTICIPANTSBob BaileyCarl ButlerTommy CovingtonMichael DeanMeg Faulkner DuChaine Howard DuvallM. C. FalknerCindy GoldBeckett Howorth III Mary Hartwell Howorth Jean LiddyRobert Ashford Little Chester A. McLarty Music by Dye & Ledford No-Name Jazz Band Oxford Jazz Cynthia Shearer Forrest Tutor Dean Faulkner Wells Lawrence Wells Chuck Yarborough Patricia YoungSPECIAL 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. Telephone 601-234-6091. Hours are 8:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, except for University holidays.ANNUAL EXHIBIT OFUNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKSBooks published by members of the American Association of University Presses will be exhibited at the Alumni House Auditorium from Monday, July 29, through noon on Friday, August 2. 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 Dr. and Mrs. M. B. Howorth Jr., Dr. and Mrs. Ernest B. Lowe Jr., Dr. C. E. Noyes, Mr. Richard Howorth of Square Books, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, the City of Oxford, the Oxford Tourism Council, and the Jack Daniel Distillery.Jay Watson is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner and several essays in Southern literature, psychoanalytic the­ory, and law in the humanities. He is coeditor of Journal X: A Journal in Culture and Criticism, whose inaugural issue will appear in Autumn 1996.Louise Westling is professor and department head of English at the University of Oregon. She is the author of The Evolution of Michael Draytons “Idea,” Eudora Welty, Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor, and The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender, and American Fiction (forthcoming). She has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Tubingen and Stuttgart, and a Fulbright lectur­er at the University of Heidelberg.TheUniversity 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, national origin, race, religion, sex, handicap, veteran or other status. Printed by The University of Mississippi Printing Services.

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