Boozer, William

Hannah, Barry

Ostdick, John H.

Wells, Dean Faulkner

Wells, Lawrence

English

eGrove (Univ. of Mississippi)

FAULKNER AND GENDERJOHN McCRADY (1911-1968) Political Rally 1935 Multistage oil on canvas 31½ x 47 ½ inches Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack M. McLartyThe University of MississippiFaulkner & Yoknapatawpha ConferenceOxford, Mississippi, July 31-August 5, 1994The University of Mississippi announces the Twenty-first 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 319:00 REGISTRATIONBarnard Observatory1:00 RECEPTIONFind the Faulkner/Name the Novel and John McCrady Back Home University Museums3:00 OPENING SESSIONEducation AuditoriumWELCOMEChancellor R. Gerald TurnerPRESENTATION OF EUDORA WELTYAWARDS IN CREATIVE WRITINGWilliam FerrisDRAMATIC READINGS FROM FAULKNER'S FICTIONVoices from YoknapatawphaSelected and Arranged by Evans Harrington5:00 FAUX FAULKNER CONTEST:ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERSWilliam Boozer, John H. Ostdick, Barry Hannah, Dean Faulkner Wells, and Lawrence WellsRowan Oak5:30 BUFFET SUPPERSPONSORED BY AMERICAN WAY:THE MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN AIRLINESHoworth Home/Old Taylor Road8:00 FAULKNER'S "GREEK AMPHORA PRIESTESS":VERBENA AND VIOLENCE IN THE UNVANQUISHED Patricia YaegerEducation Auditorium9:30 PARTYSquare BooksMONDAY, AUGUST 19:00 FAULKNER'S CRYING GAME:MALE HOMOSEXUAL PANICJohn N. DuvallEducation Auditorium10:30 "I WANT TO GO HOME": FAULKNER, GENDER, AND DEATHDoreen FowlerEducation Auditorium1:30 SELLING A NOVEL: FAULKNER'S SANCTUARY AS PSYCHO-SEXUAL TEXTJames R. PolchinEducation Auditorium3:00 KNOWING WILLIAM FAULKNERJ. M. FaulknerEducation Auditorium8:00 SEX AND GENDER, FEMININE AND MASCULINE: FAULKNER AND THE POLYMORPHOUS EXCHANGE OF CULTURAL BINARIESRobert Dale ParkerEducation AuditoriumTUESDAY, AUGUST 29:00 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 RIPLEYTommy CovingtonPONTOTOCForrest Tutor and Michael DeanTHE MISSISSIPPI DELTAMary Hartwell Howorth and Thomas J. ReardonWATER VALLEY AND COFFEEVILLEBruce Gurner, Cynthia Shearer, and Sally TrotterBRUCE, CALHOUN CITY, AND VARDAMANS. Gale Denley5:00 NOYES/SMITH/KULLMAN PARTYTyler Place8:00 FAULKNER: THE ARTIST AS CUCKOLDNoel PolkEducation AuditoriumWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 38:30 TEACHING FAULKNER IJames B. Carothers and Robert W. HamblinYerby AuditoriumTEACHING FAULKNER II Arlie Herron and Charles A. Peek Barnard Observatory10:30 THE UNVANQUISHED: WAR, GENDER, AND CROSSDRESSINGDeborah ClarkeEducation Auditorium1:30 FAULKNER UNPLUGGED: ABORTOPOESISAND THE WIED PAEMSJoseph R. UrgoEducation Auditorium3:00 FAULKNER IN OXFORDM. C. Falkner, ModeratorHoward Duvall, Mildred Murray Hopkins, Chester A. McLarty, and Patricia Young Education Auditorium4:40 WALK THROUGH BAILEY'S WOODS5:30 PICNIC AT ROWAN OAK8:00 MISTER: THE DRAMA OF BLACK MANHOOD IN FAULKNER AND MORRISONPhilip M. Weinstein Education AuditoriumTHURSDAY, AUGUST 49:00 NARCISSA'S LOVE LETTERS: ILLICIT SPACE AND THE WRITING OF FEMALE IDENTITY IN "THERE WAS A QUEEN" Michael E. Lahey Education Auditorium10:30 FAULKNER AND "GENDER TROUBLE"Minrose C. GwinEducation AuditoriumFREE AFTERNOON8:00 READINGS AND DISCUSSIONLarry BrownEducation AuditoriumFRIDAY, AUGUST 68:30 TEACHING FAULKNER IJames B. Carothers and Robert W. Hamblin Barnard ObservatoryTEACHING FAULKNER II Arlie Herron and Charles A. Peek Yerby Auditorium10:30 MATERNALIZING THE EPICENE:FAULKNER'S PARADOX OF FORM AND GENDER David RogersEducation Auditorium1:30 MISS ROSA AS "LOVE'S ANDROGYNOUS ADVOCATE": GENDER AND NARRATIVE INDETERMINACY IN CHAPTER 5 OF ABSALOM, ABSALOM!Andrea DiminoEducation Auditorium3:00 MARGARET MITCHELL: FAULKNER'S UNRECOGNIZED SISTER Peter PalievskyEducation Auditorium5:00 CLOSING PARTYAmmadelle/637 North LamarPROGRAM STAFFLarry Brown is the author of two collections of stories, Facing the Music and Big Bad Love, two novels, Dirty Work and Joe, and a recent work of nonfiction, On Fire. His adaptation of Dirty Work for the stage was produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Facing the Music received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters 1989 Award for Literature, and Joe received the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. He is current­ly at work on a novel.Deborah Clarke is assistant professor of English and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She has published sever­al essays on Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Albert Camus, as well as Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner. She recently received the George W. Atherton Award for Distinguished Teaching.Andrea Dimino is associate professor in the division of Humanities at New College of the University of South Florida. She has published essays on Absalom, Absalom!, the Sartoris fam­ily, and The Hamlet. She recently completed a book, Faulkner's Hunt for the Present: Reading Faulknerian Time.John N. Duvall is associate professor of English at the University of Memphis. He has published numerous essays on modern literature and theory, including studies of Henry James, T. S. Eliot, Toni Morrison, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as Faulkner. At the 1985 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference he presented "Faulkner's Critics and Women: The Voice of the Community." He is the author of Faulkner's Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities.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.Doreen Fowler, professor of English at the University of Mississippi, has coedited twelve volumes of proceedings of the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. She is the author of Faulkner's Changing Vision: From Outrage to Affirmation and has published articles in American Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, Studies in American Fiction, and others. She recently completed another book-length study of Faulkner.Minrose C. Gwin, professor of English at the University of New Mexico, is the author of Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature and The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference, as well as the editor of three additional books, including A Woman's Civil War: A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862, by Cornelia McDonald. She is currently working on A Poetics of Women's Space, exploring the relationship between cultural and narrative spaces in North American women's fiction and autobiography.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 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.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.Michael E. Lahey presented "The Complex Art of Justice: Lawyers and Law-Makers as Faulkner's Dubious Artist- Figures" at the 1993 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. He is a doctoral candidate in the department of English at the University of Alberta, presently writing his dissertation, "'Constructing Justice': Faulkner and the Law."Peter Palievsky is vice director of the Gorky Institute of World Literature, Academy of Sciences, in Moscow. The author of three books and numerous essays, he has been for many years engaged in the critical evaluation and dissemination of Faulkner's works in Russia. He organized the first Soviet- American conference on Faulkner in Moscow in 1984.Robert Dale Parker is professor of English at the University of Illinois. He has published two books on Faulkner—Faulkner and the Novelistic Imagination and "Absalom, Absalom!": The Questioning of Fictions—as well as The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop.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.James R. Pokhin received his M.A. in English Language and Literature at Drew University and will begin doctoral work in American Studies at New York University in the fall. He has presented papers on Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and "Gender Aesthetics: The Use of Colors in Plath's The Bell Jar."Noel Polk is professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Among his many publications are the corrected texts of Faulkner's works for Random House and the Library of America series and a critical study of Requiem for a Nun. His pre­sentation at the 1992 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, "'Polysyllabic and Verbless Patriotic Nonsense': Faulkner at Midcentury—His and Ours," is part of a work in progress, "William Faulkner: Meditations on Power."David Rogers is associate lecturer at Kingston University in England. In addition to several reviews of books on Jack Kerouac, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop, as well as race and multiculturalism in America, he is at work on a book-length study, "Articulating the Flesh: The Paradox of Form and Gender in the Novels of William Faulkner."Joseph R. Urgo, associate professor of English and Humanities, Bryant College, is the author of Faulkner's Apocrypha: "A Fable," Snopes, and the Spirit of Human Rebellion as well as numerous essays, reviews, and public presentations. In 1992 he was Fulbright Lecturer at the Universities of Leon and Oviedo in Spain.Philip M. Weinstein is professor of English at Swarthmore College. He has published Henry James and the Requirements of the Imagination, The Semantics of Desire: Changing Modes of Identity, and, most recently, Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns, several chapters of which were initially presented as papers at Faulkner conferences.Patricia Yaeger is associate professor of English, University of Michigan. Coeditor of Nationalisms and Sexualities and Refiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy, she is the author of Honey-Mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women's Writing. In addition to publishing numerous essays on such fig­ures as Hannah Arendt, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Kate Chopin, and Charlotte Bronte, she is presently at work on two books: "Dirt and Desire: The Grotesque in Southern Women's Fiction" and "The Poetics of Birth."OTHER PROGRAM PARTICIPANTSWilliam Boozer Kay BrickAlice M. Buchanan Tommy Covington Michael DeanS. Gale Denley Howard DuvallM. C. Falkner Bruce Gurner Barry Hannah Jerry Haynie Confederate Grass No-Name Jazz BandMildred Murray Hopkins Beckett Howorth III Mary Hartwell Howorth Chester A. McLarty John H. Ostdick Thomas J. Reardon Cynthia Shearer Sally Trotter Forrest Tutor Dean Faulkner Wells Lawrence Wells Patricia Young Sarah Isom TrioMcCRADY POSTERS AND VIDEOSPolitical Rally, by John McCrady (1911-1968), is used as the illustration for the 1994 Faulkner and Yoknaptawpha Conference poster and program courtesy of the owners of the painting, Mr. and Mrs. Jack M. McLarty, Jackson, Mississippi. Political Rally and other paintings by the artist will be exhibited at the University Museums during the conference week.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. Political Rally, set on the town's square, depicts a campaign gath­ering for demagogic politician Theodore Bilbo. Standing to the right, at the edge of the crowd, is William Faulkner; beside him are the painter and his wife, Mary.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 conference poster illustrated with his painting are available through the Center's Southern Culture Catalog. 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.LIBRARY DISPLAYSThe Department of Archives and Special Collections of the University's John Davis Williams Library has mounted "Fifty Years of Faulkner Criticism" as a special exhibition for the 1994 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Among the department's perma­nent exhibits are William Faulkner's Nobel Prize medal and signed first editions and manuscripts. Hours are 8:00 a.m.-4:30 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, August 1, through noon on Friday, August 5. 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, Dr. and Mrs. M. B. Howorth, Jr., Dr. Colby Kullman, Mr. and Mrs. Jack M. McLarty, Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Noyes, Dr. and Mrs. Allie M. Smith, Mrs. John F. Tatum and her family, 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, and American Way, the magazine of American Airlines.IN MEMORIAMCleanth Brooks Seymour Lawrence1906-1994 1927-1994The 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, 94-281.

Faux Faulkner Contest: Announcement of Winners

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fy/fy-program-1994.pdf

Faux Faulkner Contest: Announcement of Winners

Abstract

Similar works

Full text

Available Versions

eGrove (Univ. of Mississippi)