Teaching Faulkner I / Robert W. Hamblin and Arlie Herron. Ole Miss Union 404 A&BTeaching Faulkner II / James B. Carothers and Charles A. Peek. Ole Miss Union 405 A&

Carothers, James B.

Hamblin, Robert W.

Herron, Arlie

Peek, Charles A.

English

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GLENNRAY TUTOR Windchime© 1991 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches Patricia Young CollectionThe University of Mississippi Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha ConferenceOxford, Mississippi, August 2-7, 1992The University of Mississippi announces the Nineteenth 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 IDEOLOGYPROGRAMSUNDAY, AUGUST 29:00 REGISTRATIONE. F. Yerby Conference Center1:00 RECEPTIONFaulkner, Family, and FriendsThe Downtown Grill, CosponsorUniversity Museums3:00 OPENING SESSIONEducation AuditoriumWELCOMEChancellor R. Gerald TurnerPRESENTATION OF EUDORA WELTY AWARDS IN CREATIVE WRITING William Ferris and Frances PattersonDRAMATIC READINGSVoices from Yoknapatawpha5:00 FAUX FAULKNER CONTEST:BACKGROUND AND ANNOUNCEMENTOF WINNERSWilliam Boozer, Doug Crichton, Barry Hannah, Dean Faulkner Wells, and Lawrence Wells Rowan Oak5:30 BUFFET SUPPERSPONSORED BY AMERICAN WAY:THE MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN AIRLINES Howorth Home/Old Taylor Road8:00 FAULKNER AND THE NEW IDEOLOGUESAndre BleikastenEducation Auditorium9:30 PARTYSquare BooksMONDAY, AUGUST 39:00 FAULKNER AND THE IDEOLOGIES OFORIGINSRichard KingEducation Auditorium10:30 MOLLY’S VISION: LOST CAUSEIDEOLOGY AND GENESIS IN FAULKNER’SGO DOWN, MOSESGlenn MeeterEducation Auditorium1:30 DESIRE AND DISMEMBERMENT:FAULKNER’S HISTORIES OF SEXUALITYAnne Goodwyn JonesEducation Auditorium3:00 KNOWING WILLIAM FAULKNERJ. M. FaulknerEducation Auditorium8:00 THE RAZOR, THE PISTOL, AND THE IDEOLOGY OF RACE ETIQUETTE Martha Banta Education AuditoriumTUESDAY, AUGUST 49:00 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 BuchananNEW ALBANY AND RIPLEYHoward L. BahrTHE MISSISSIPPI DELTAMary Hartwell Howorth and Thomas J. ReardonWATER VALLEY AND COFFEEVILLE Bruce Gurner and Kay BrickBRUCE, CALHOUN CITY, AND VARDAMANS. Gale Denley5:00 PARTYNoyes Home/130 Leighton Road8:00 “THE WORLD IN ITS ORDERED AND REGIMENTED CHARADES”: WILLIAM FAULKNER, 1950-55Noel PolkEducation AuditoriumWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 58:30 TEACHING FAULKNER IRobert W. Hamblin and Arlie Herron Ole Miss Union Room 404 A&BTEACHING FAULKNER IIJames B. Carothers and Charles A. Peek Ole Miss Union Room 405 A&B10:30 READING FAULKNER’S APPENDICES: WRITING HISTORY FROM THE MARGINS Thadious M. Davis Education Auditorium1:30 FAULKNER AND THE DEMOCRATICCRISISRobert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.Education Auditorium3:00 VIEWS OF FAULKNER AND IDEOLOGY FROM MOSCOWNicolai Anastasiev, Sergei Chakovsky, Maya Koreneva, and Julia Palievsky Education Auditorium4:40 WALK THROUGH BAILEY’S WOODS5:30 PICNIC AT ROWAN OAK8:00 “I DON’T HATE THE SOUTH”: IDEOLOGY AND THE POWER OF NARRATION IN ABSALOM, ABSALOM! J. Hillis MillerEducation AuditoriumTHURSDAY, AUGUST 69:00 ON PRIVACY: FAULKNER AND THE HUMAN SUBJECT Richard GrayEducation Auditorium10:30 OXFORD WOMEN REMEMBER FAULKNERChester A. McLarty, Moderator Mary McClain Hall, Minnie Ruth Little, Anna Keirsey McLean, and Bessie Sumners Education AuditoriumFREE AFTERNOON8:00 WILLIAM FAULKNER: WHY, THE VERY IDEA!Louis D. Rubin, Jr.Education AuditoriumFRIDAY, AUGUST 78:30 TEACHING FAULKNER IRobert W. Hamblin and Arlie Herron Ole Miss Union Room 404 A&BTEACHING FAULKNER II James B. Carothers and Charles E. Peek Ole Miss Union Room 405 A&B10:30 REALISM, NATURALISM, AND MODERNISM: RESIDUAL, DOMINANT, AND EMERGENT IDEOLOGIES IN AS I LAY DYING James M. Mellard Education Auditorium1:30 THE SNOPES TRILOGY AND THEEMERGENCE OF CONSUMER CULTURE Ted OwnbyEducation Auditorium3:00 DISCUSSIONS FOR SMALL GROUPSFAULKNER IN OXFORD M. C. Falkner, Moderator Chester McLarty and Patricia Young Ole Miss Union BallroomFAULKNER AND TRADITIONAL IDEOLOGIESMartha Banta, Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., Thadious M. Davis, Richard Gray, Glenn Meeter, and Louis D. Rubin, Jr.Ole Miss Union Room 404 A&BFAULKNER AND THE NEW IDEOLOGIES Andre Bleikasten, Anne Goodwyn Jones, Richard King, James M. Mellard, J. Hillis Miller, Noel Polk, and Ted Ownby Ole Miss Union Room 405 A&B6:00 CLOSING BANQUETSt. Peter’s Episcopal ChurchPROGRAM STAFFNicolai Anastasiev is professor of foreign literature at Moscow State University and editor-in-chief of Culture Publishing House. He is the author of William Faulkner's Novels, Proprietor of Yoknapatawpha, The Mystery of Vladimir Nabokov, and other books and essays on the prob­lems of European and American literature of the twentieth century.Martha Banta is professor of American Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among her publications are Failure and Success in America: A Literary Debate, Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History, and many essays and reviews. She is associate editor of The Columbia Literary History of the United States and a past president of the American Studies Association.Andre Bleikasten, professor of English at the University of Strasbourg, has published numerous works on Faulkner in French and in English. Among the latter are The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner’s Novels from “The Sound and the Fury” to “Light in August” and “For/Against an Ideological Reading of Faulkner’s Novels.” Professor Bleikasten is, along with Francois Pitavy, in charge of the continuation of the French edition of Faulkner in the Gallimard Pléiade series.Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., is professor of American Literature and Southern Studies at The University of Mississippi. He is the author of Three Catholic Writers of the Modern South, The Art and Vision of Flannery O’Connor, an intellectual biography of Katherine Anne Porter, and numerous essays and book reviews. He is currently writing a book on fascism and the Southern writer.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 Myriad Heart: The Evolution of the Faulkner Hero” and “Faulkner’s Short Stories: ‛And Now What’s to Do.’”Sergei Chakovsky, a research fellow at the Gorky Institute of World Literature in Moscow, specializes in Faulkner studies as well as literary theory and the depiction of blacks in American literature. His publica­tions include “The Black American Novel of the 1970s,” the chapter “Mark Twain and William Faulkner” in a volume he coedited, and “William Faulkner in Soviet Literary Criticism” and other essays printed in Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference volumes.Thadious M. Davis, professor of English at Brown University, has pub­lished widely on Southern and African American writers. Among her many contributions to Faulkner scholarship are “From Jazz Syncopation to Blues Elegy: Faulkner’s Development of Black Characterization,” “Wright, Faulkner, and Mississippi as Racial Memory,” and Faulkner’s “Negro”: Art and the Southern Context. She is now writing a book on “The Fictions of Nella Larsen.”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 a unique insight into the personality of his famous uncle.Richard Gray is a professor in the Department of Literature at the University of Essex. Among his publications are The Literature of Memory: Modern Writers of the American South, Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region, and an edited work, American Fiction: New Readings, which contains the essay “From Oxford: The Novels of William Faulkner.” Professor Gray is currently writing a book-length study of Faulkner.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, has directed the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference since its founding in 1974. 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.Anne Goodwyn Jones is associate professor of English at the University of Florida. She won the Jules F. Landry Award for Tomorrow Is Another Day: The Woman Writer in the South, 1859-1936, a book that combines biography, social history, feminist criticism, and textual analysis. Her cur­rent book project is “Faulkner’s Daughters,” a study of women writers of the Southern Renaissance.Richard H. King has been a reader in American Studies at the University of Nottingham since 1983 and was a visiting professor at The University of Mississippi during the 1989-90 academic year. A specialist in American thought and culture, he is the author of The Party of Eros: Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom, A Southern Renaissance: The Cultural Awakening of the American South, 1930-1955, and Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom.Maya Koreneva studied at Moscow State University and at the Gorky Institute of World Literature, where she has been a staff member since 1965. She is currently a Fulbright scholar at The University of Mississippi. Among her publications are a book on Eugene O’Neill and dozens of articles on American literary topics and authors. She has also translated many works, including The Unvanquished, into Russian.Glenn Meeter is professor of English at Northern Illinois University, where he served as chair from 1984 until 1990. His publications include a novel and short stories as well as essays on religion and literature. At the 1989 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference he presented “Quentin as Redactor: Biblical Analogy in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!”James M. Mellard, professor of English at Northern Illinois University, is the author of The Exploded Form: The Modernist Novel in America, Doing Tropology: Analysis of Narrative Discourse, and Using Lacan, Reading Fiction. He has also published more than forty essays, including “The Sound and the Fury. Quentin Compson and Faulkner’s Tragedy of Passion” and “Lacan and Faulkner: A Post-Freudian Analysis of Humor in the Fiction.”J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine. In addition to publishing more than a hundred essays in journals and collections, he is the author or editor of more than twenty books on American and English literature, including The Ethics of Reading and The Linguistic Moment: From Wordsworth to Stevens. He is a past president of the Modern Language Association.Ted Ownby is assistant professor of History and Southern Studies at The University of Mississippi. He is the author of Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 and is currently writing a book on the history of consumer culture in north Mississippi, drawing on such varied sources as literature, newspapers, general store account books, demographics, and census records.Julia Palievsky, associate professor of English at Moscow State University of Moscow, was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Virginia during the 1991-92 academic year. Among her extensive publi­cations are William Faulkner: Life and Work and an introduction to a volume containing her translations of Faulkner’s essays, speeches, inter­views, and letters into Russian.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.Noel Polk is professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Among his many publications are the corrected text of Faulkner’s works for Random House and the Library of America series, several of the concordances of Faulkner’s novels, and the Garland Faulkner Casebooks. He is also the author of many articles on Faulkner and a critical study of Requiem for a Nun.Louis D. Rubin, Jr., is University Distinguished Professor of English emeritus at the University of North Carolina and founder and president of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. He is the author and editor of more than forty books, among them The Faraway Country: Writers of the Modern South, A Gallery of Southerners, and The History of Southern Literature.OTHER PROGRAM PARTICIPANTSHoward L. Bahr William Boozer Kay Brick Alice Buchanan Doug Crichton S. Gale Denley Howard Duvall M. C. Falkner Bruce Gurner Mary McClain Hall Barry Hannah Confederate GrassBeckett Howorth III Mary Hartwell Howorth Minnie Ruth Little Chester McLarty Anna Keirsey McLean Thomas J. Reardon Bessie Sumners Dean Faulkner Wells Lawrence Wells Patricia Young No-Name Jazz BandANNUAL 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 3, through noon on Friday, August 7. The AAUP book exhibit is sponsored by the University Press of Mississippi, repre­sented at the conference by Beverly Ray and Seetha Srinivasan.RECEPTIONS FOR EXHIBITIONSConference participants are cordially invited to attend receptions for two exhibitions on Thursday, August 6: 1:30-3:00 p.m.—“English Magnolias: Mississippi Fiction Printed in England, 1929-1992”—Department of Special Collections, John Davis Williams Library.3:30-5:00 p.m.—“The First National Bank and William Faulkner’s Family”—First National Bank, Oxford Square.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. and Mrs. C. E. Noyes, Dr. William E. Strickland, Mr. Glennray Tutor, Ms. Patricia Young, Mr. Richard Howorth of Square Books, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, the City of Oxford, the Oxford Tourism Council, 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.

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