1987: Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction

A selection of the essays presented at this year’s conference is available from the University Press of Mississippi. It is also available from the University of Mississippi Libraries at this call number: PS3511.A86 Z7778 1987.

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Schedule
1987
Sunday, August 2nd
1:00 PM

Opening of Photography Exhibition

Eudora Welty
Milly Moorhead

University Museums

1:00 PM

3:00 PM

Welcome; Awards Presentation; Readings and Discussion

Eudora Welty
Morris L. Marx, University of Mississippi
William Ferris, University of Mississippi
Frances Patterson

Fulton Chapel

3:00 PM

5:30 PM

Buffet Supper

Conference Attendees

Howorth Home/Old Taylor Road

5:30 PM

8:00 PM

Faulkner: Master of Both the Heroic and the Pastoral Modes

Cleanth Brooks, Yale University

Education Auditorium

8:00 PM

9:30 PM

Party

Conference Attendees

Square Books

9:30 PM

Monday, August 3rd
9:00 AM

Knowing William Faulkner

J. M. Faulkner
Jo Marshall, Jefferson State Community College

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM

11:00 AM

William Faulkner Stamp: First Day of Issue Ceremony

Conference Attendees

Education Auditorium

11:00 AM

2:00 PM

Carcassonne in Mississippi: Faulkner's Geography of the Imagination

Robert W. Hamblin, Southeast Missouri State University

Union Ballroom

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Word Without a Word: How the French Translations of Faulkner's Texts Don't Always Fit What They're Trying to Say At

Beth Dyer Biron, Dalton Junior College

Union Ballroom

3:30 PM

8:00 PM

Drowsing Maidenhead Symbol's Self: Realities to Myth, or Faulkner on Love

Judith L. Sensibar, Arizona State University

Union Ballroom

8:00 PM

Tuesday, August 4th
9:00 AM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Multiple Guides

Various Locations

9:00 AM

5:00 PM

Party

Conference Attendees

Noyes Home/130 Leighton Road

5:00 PM

8:00 PM

Faulkner's Art of Repetition

Donald M. Kartiganer, University of Washington, Seattle

Union Ballroom

8:00 PM

Wednesday, August 5th
9:00 AM

Compulsive and Revisionary Repetition: Faulkner's "Barn Burning" and the Craft of Writing Difference

Richard C. Moreland, Louisiana State University

Union Ballroom

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Discussions for Small Groups

Multiple Speakers

Various Locations

10:30 AM

4:40 PM

Walk Through Bailey's Woods

Conference Attendees

Bailey's Woods

4:40 PM

5:30 PM

Picnic at Rowan Oak

Conference Attendees

Rowan Oak

5:30 PM

8:00 PM

Requiem for a Nun: A Dramatic Reading Featuring Ruth Ford

Ruth Ford

Fulton Chapel

8:00 PM

Thursday, August 6th
9:00 AM

Faulkner's Patriotic Failure: Southern Lyricism Versus American Hypervision

William E. H. Meyer Jr.

Union Ballroom

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Oxford Women Remember Faulkner

Chester A. McLarty
Maggie Brown
Marjorie Lewis
Minnie Ruth Little
Bessie Sumners

Union Ballroom

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Faulkner as a Mythmaker

Nicolai Anastasiev, Moscow State University

Union Ballroom

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

The History of the Human Heart on the Head of the Pin: Faulkner's Craft of Artistic Concentration

Sergei Chakovsky, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature

Union Ballroom

3:00 PM

8:00 PM

Faulkner's Narrative Frames

John T. Matthews, Boston University

Union Ballroom

8:00 PM

Friday, August 7th
9:00 AM

A Trap Most Magnificently Sprung: The Last Chapter of Light in August

Christopher A. LaLonde, North Carolina Wesleyan College

Union Ballroom

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Thinking I Was I Was Not Who Was Not Was Not Who: The Vertigo of Faulknerian Identity

Philip M. Weinstein, Rhodes College

Union Ballroom

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Discussions for Small Groups

Multiple Speakers

Various Locations

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Remembrances: Questions and Answers

Ruth Ford

Union Ballroom

3:00 PM

8:00 PM

Faulkner's Artistry and the Arts of Black America

Thea Bowman, Catholic Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi

Fulton Chapel

8:00 PM

9:30 PM

Party

Conference Attendees

Syd & Harry's

9:30 PM