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

Carothers, James B.

Hamblin, Robert W.

Herron, Arlie

Peek, Charles A.

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GLENNRAY TUTOR William Faulkner© 1992 Based on the Cofield Collection PhotographPencil and watercolor on paper 19½ x 17½ inches Collection of William and Donna GottshallThe University of Mississippi Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha ConferenceOxford, Mississippi, August 1-6, 1993The University of Mississippi announces the Twentieth Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.The conference is sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.FAULKNER AND THE ARTISTPROGRAMSUNDAY, AUGUST 19:00 REGISTRATIONBARNARD OBSERVATORY1:00 RECEPTIONGlennray Tutor's Mississippi: Night and Day Paintings University Museums2:30 OPENING SESSIONFulton ChapelWELCOMEChancellor R. Gerald TurnerPRESENTATION OF EUDORA WELTY AWARDS IN CREATIVE WRITING William Ferris and Frances PattersonAS I LAY DYING: SELECTED SONGSLIGHT IN AUGUST: AN OPERA IN ONE ACT Composed by Tommy Goldsmith, Tom House, David Olney, and Karen PellPerformed by Opera MemphisMichael Ching, Artistic Director5:00 FAUX FAULKNER CONTEST:BACKGROUND AND ANNOUNCEMENTOF WINNERSWilliam Boozer, Doug Crichton, Barry Hannah,Jack Hemingway, Dean Faulkner Wells, and Lawrence Wells Rowan Oak5:30 BUFFET SUPPERSPONSORED BY AMERICAN WAY:THE MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN AIRLINESHoworth Home/Old Taylor Road8:00 AS I LAY DYING: NARRATIVE THEATREAdapted for the Stage and Directed by Gloria Baxter Department of Theatre and Communication Arts Memphis State UniversityFulton Chapel9:30 PARTYSquare BooksMONDAY, AUGUST 29:00 THE HISTORIAN LOOKS AT FAULKNERTHE ARTISTJoel WilliamsonEducation Auditorium10:30 FAULKNER’S SELF-PORTRAITS AS AN ARTISTIN HIS CORRESPONDENCEMichel GressetEducation Auditorium1:30 CRACKED URNS: FAULKNER, GENDER,AND ART IN THE SOUTHSusan V. DonaldsonEducation Auditorium3:00 KNOWING WILLIAM FAULKNERJ. M. FaulknerEducation Auditorium8:00 WILLIAM FAULKNER AND ROBERT PENN WARREN AS LITERARY ARTISTS: A COMPARISONJoseph BlotnerEducation AuditoriumTUESDAY, AUGUST 39:00 GUIDED TOURS OF NORTH MISSISSIPPIOXFORD AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY I (Overview) Evans Harrington and Howard DuvallOXFORD AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY II (Architecture)Beckett Howorth IIIHOLLY SPRINGSAlice M. BuchananNEW ALBANY AND RIPLEYHoward L. BahrPONTOTOCForrest TutorTHE MISSISSIPPI DELTAMary Hartwell Howorth and Thomas J. ReardonBRUCE, CALHOUN CITY, AND VARDAMANS. Gale Denley5:00 PARTYNoyes Home/130 Leighton Road8:00 RECOVERING THE TELLER IN THE TALE:AN UNFINISHED PROJECTWesley MorrisEducation AuditoriumWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 48:30 TEACHING FAULKNER IJames B. Carothers and Robert W. HamblinYerby AuditoriumTEACHING FAULKNER II Arlie Herron and Charles A. Peek Barnard Observatory10:30 POST-IMPRESSIONIST AUTONOMY WHEN “MATISSE AND PICASSO YET PAINTED” Panthea Reid BroughtonEducation Auditorium1:30 PYLON, JOYCE, AND FAULKNER’S IMAGINATION Michael ZeitlinEducation Auditorium3:00 FAULKNER AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER Thomas S. RankinEducation Auditorium4:40 WALK THROUGH BAILEY’S WOODS5:30 PICNIC AT ROWAN OAK8:00 THE ARTIST AND TRANSGRESSION:YOKNAPATAWPHAN AUTO-INTERTEXTUALITY Martin KreiswirthEducation AuditoriumTHURSDAY, AUGUST 59:00 “LONGER THAN ANYTHING”: FAULKNER’S“GRAND DESIGN” IN ABSALOM, ABSALOM! Robert W. HamblinEducation Auditorium10:30 DISCUSSIONS FOR SMALL GROUPSOXFORD WOMEN REMEMBER FAULKNERChester A. McLarty, ModeratorMary McClain Hall, Anna Keirsey McLean, and Bessie SumnersBarnard ObservatoryFAULKNER IN OXFORDM. C. Falkner, ModeratorHoward Duvall, Xandra Williams Jenkins, and Patricia YoungOle Miss Union BallroomFAULKNER AND THE FACTUAL WORLD Joseph Blotner, Michel Gresset,Robert W. Hamblin, Thomas S. Hines, Michael Lahey, and Michael Zeitlin Ole Miss Union Room 404 A&BFAULKNER AND AESTHETICSPanthea Reid Broughton, Susan V. Donaldson, Martin Kreiswirth, Wesley Morris, Thomas S. Rankin, and Candace WaidOle Miss Union Room 405 A&BFREE AFTERNOON8:00 WHISPERS SHORT AND TALL: BECKETT, FAULKNER, AND THE REST OF USBarry HannahEducation AuditoriumFRIDAY, AUGUST 68:30 TEACHING FAULKNER IJames B. Carothers and Robert W. HamblinBarnard ObservatoryTEACHING FAULKNER II Arlie Herron and Charles E. Peek Yerby Auditorium10:30 THE SIGNIFYING EYE: FAULKNER’S ARTISTSAND THE CONCEIVING OF ARTCandace WaidEducation Auditorium1:30 THE COMPLEX ART OF JUSTICE: LAWYERS AND LAW-MAKERS AS FAULKNER’S DUBIOUS ARTIST­FIGURES Michael Lahey Education Auditorium3:00 THE ARCHITECTURE OF YOKNAPATAWPHA:THE BUILT ENVIRONMENTOF FAULKNER’S WORLDThomas S. HinesEducation Auditorium5:00 CLOSING PARTYAmmadelle/637 North LamarPROGRAM STAFFGloria Baxter, a professor of drama at Memphis State University, spe­cializes in Narrative Theatre. Recognition for her work includes a first- place award at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival and featured presentations at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris and the Albright- Knox Modern Art Gallery in New York. She is currently preparing a stage adaptation of Eudora Welty’s work for a 1994 tour to France.Joseph Blotner, professor emeritus, University of Michigan, has lectured extensively in the United States and Europe on American literature and particularly on the work of William Faulkner. Among his many publica­tions are Faulkner: A Biography, published in two volumes in 1974 and in a revised, one-volume edition in 1984; Selected Letters of William Faulkner; and Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner. Professor Blotner is currently writing a literary biography of Robert Penn Warren.Panthea Reid Broughton is the author of William Faulkner: The Abstract and the Actual and numerous essays, including “An Amazing Gift: The Early Essays and Faulkner’s Apprenticeship in Aesthetics and Criticism” and “Faulkner’s Cubist Novels.” She is professor of English at Louisiana State University.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.’”Michael Ching is artistic director of Opera Memphis, a position he has held since early 1992. He came to Memphis from the Virginia Opera in Norfolk. His opera Cue 67, a murder mystery involving a Shakespeare play, has played in Norfolk and Richmond. Along with lyricist Hugh Moffatt, a Nashville songwriter, he wrote the score for a new opera, King of the Clouds, commissioned by the Dayton Opera. Both works exhibit Ching’s interest in revitalizing the operatic form through the use of non- traditional musical styles.Susan V. Donaldson has published articles and presented papers on many Southern literary and visual artists and is completing a book-length study entitled “Reluctant Visionaries and Southern Others: Writers and Painters of the Modern South.” Among her publications on William Faulkner are “Subverting History: Women, Narrative, and Patriarchy in Absalom, Absalom!” and “Contending Narratives: Go Down, Moses and the Short Story Cycle.” Professor Donaldson teaches at the College of William and Mary.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.Michel Gresset is professor of English at the Institut d’Anglais, Universite de Paris VII He is the author of Faulkner ou la Fascination, recently published in an English translation by Duke University Press, and editor of the first volume of the Pléiade edition of Faulkner. Professor Gresset has also translated Faulkner’s Selected Letters and Unpublished Stories.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.Barry Hannah received the William Faulkner Prize for his first novel, Geronimo Rex, and the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award for Airships, a collection of stories. His achievement in fiction has also been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other publications are the novels Ray, The Tennis Handsome, and Never Die and, most recently, the story collection Bats Out of Hell. He is writer-in- residence at the University of Mississippi.Evans Harrington, professor emeritus of English at the University of Mississippi, has directed the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference since its founding in 1974. His publications include novels, short stories, literary essays, and books reviews. Also, he wrote the script for Faulkner’s 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 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.Thomas S. Hines is professor of history and of architecture and urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of prize-winning biographies of architects Richard Neutra and Daniel Burnham and more than fifty essays on architectural history in books, scholarly and professional journals, and popular periodicals.Martin Kreiswith is the author of William Faulkner: The Making of a Novelist and essays on Faulkner published in anthologies and in American Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, and other journals. He is associate professor of English and director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario.Michael Lahey is a doctoral student at the University of Alberta. Among his publications are the journal articles “Women and Law in Faulkner” and “Film, Fantasy, and Assault: Accusation and Esteem in Faulkner’s ‛Dry September.’”Wesley Morris is the author of Toward a New Historicism, Friday’s Footprint: Structuralism and the Articulated Text, and Reading Faulkner. His articles and reviews have appeared in Western Humanities Review, Georgia Review, Novel, Clio, and other journals. He is professor of English at Rice University.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 Frrors: A Book of Remedies for Writers.Thomas S. Rankin is associate professor of art and Southern studies at the University of Mississippi. His photographs have appeared in numer­ous magazines, journals, and books and in his own collection, Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta, recently published by the University Press of Mississippi.Candace Waid is associate professor of English and American studies at Yale University. She is the author of Edith Wharton’s Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing and coedited Generations: Women in the South, a special issue of Southern Exposure. Her work in progress, “Writing in Tongues: Ritual and Language in Southern Literature,” examines Faulkner, among others.Joel Williamson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Among his books are The Crucible of Race: Black- White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation and the newly published Faulkner and Southern History. The latter, Professor Williamson says, attempts “to bring Southern culture to bear upon Faulkner’s life and work and simultaneously to bring that life and work to bear upon Southern culture.”Michael Zeitlin is the author of essays on Faulkner in such journals as Contemporary Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, and MOSAIC and in the forthcoming collections Against Lacan and Faulkner and Psychology: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1991. He is assistant professor of English at the University of British Columbia.OTHER PROGRAM PARTICIPANTSHoward L. Bahr William Boozer Alice M. Buchanan Doug Crichton S. Gale Denley Howard Duvall M. C. Falkner Tommy Goldsmith Mary McClain Hall Jerry Haynie Jack Hemingway Tom House Beckett Howorth III Mary Hartwell Howorth Sarah Isom TrioXandra Williams Jenkins Chester McLarty Anna Keirsey McLean David Olney Karen PellDonna PinionRusty PinionThomas J. Reardon Bessie SumnersKaren TillerForrest TutorDean Faulkner Wells Lawrence WellsPatricia Young No-Name Jazz BandFAULKNER SET TO MUSICIn conjunction with Opera Memphis, a team of Nashville composers with no previous operatic experience collaborated to produce a series of songs based on As I Lay Dying and a one-act musical theater version of the first chapter of Light in August. With a country blues score, Light in August debuted in Memphis earlier this year, a creation of the opera company’s new works division, the National Center for the Development of American Opera. Its lyrical songs, rooted in country and blues ballad tra­ditions, were composed by singer-songwriter David Olney, joined by Karen Pell, Tommy Goldsmith, and Tom House. Directed by Karen Tiller of Opera Memphis, the production is styled to fit the rural Mississippi locale of Faulkner’s works. Michael Ching, artistic director of Opera Memphis, and Karen Tiller served as dramaturges.FAULKNER ON STAGEOriginally performed at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, Gloria Baxter’s visually poetic stage production of As I Lay Dying features the central presence of Addie Bundren and attempts to capture in live perfor­mance “the thunder and the music of the prose” that for the spell-bound reader of Faulkner’s great novel “take place in silence.”ANNUAL EXHIBIT OF UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKSBooks published by members of the American Association of University Presses will be exhibited at the Alumni House Auditorium from Monday, August 2, through noon on Friday, August 6. The AAUP book exhibit is sponsored by the University Press of Mississippi, represented at the con­ference by Carrie Didlake.LIBRARY AND MUSEUM EXHIBITIONSThe Department of Special Collections will display books, photographs, and manuscripts donated to the University of Mississippi by William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. A num­ber of scarce Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States editions of Faulkner will be featured. Additional displays will highlight the writ­ings of Robert Penn Warren and Eudora Welty as well as works on Mississippi folklore.A permanent display of Faulkner rare editions and manuscripts is in the Special Collections Department as is the newly dedicated Seymour Lawrence: An American Publisher Reading Room. This room contains books, graphic works, letters, and campaign materials associated with Lawrence’s distinguished list of writers.Mississippi artist Glennray Tutor’s paintings will be exhibited at the University Museums. The exhibition is funded in part by the Mississippi Arts Commission, Friends of the Museums, and the University of Mississippi Graduate School.FAULKNER AND THE ARTISTThe official poster for the 1993 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference is the sixth in a series of illustrations by Glennray Tutor. The image was taken from the Cofield Collection, a uniquely comprehensive group of photographs of William Faulkner made by Colonel J. R. Cofield and his son Jack between 1930 and 1962. Use of the photograph is by permission of Martha Cofield of Oxford, Mississippi.SPECIAL THANKSThe conference organizers are grateful to all the individuals and organi­zations that support Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha annually and offer spe­cial thanks this year to Mrs. Jack Cofield, Dr. and Mrs. M. B. Howorth, Jr., Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Noyes, Dr. William E. Strickland, Mrs. John F. Tatum and her family, Mr. Glennray Tutor, Mr. Richard Howorth of Square Books, Mr. James Rice of Holiday Inn/Oxford, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, the City of Oxford, the Oxford Tourism Council, the Southern Arts Federation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund’s Opera for a New America Program, the Plough Foundation, and American Way, the magazine of American Airlines.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, national origin, race, religion, sex, handicap, veteran, or other status. Produced by University Publishing Center. 93-232.

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