1989: Faulkner and Religion
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 1989.
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| 1989 | ||
| Sunday, July 30th | ||
| 9:00 AM |
Conference Attendees E. F. Yerby Conference Center 9:00 AM |
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| 1:00 PM |
Conference Attendees University Museums 1:00 PM |
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| 3:00 PM |
Opening Session: Welcome, Award Presentation, Faulkner and That Old Time Religion R. Gerald Turner, University of Mississippi Education Auditorium 3:00 PM |
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| 5:30 PM |
Conference Attendees Howorth Home/Old Taylor Road 5:30 PM |
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| 8:00 PM |
Dramatic Readings: Voices from Yoknapatawpha Multiple Speakers Education Auditorium 8:00 PM |
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| 10:00 PM |
Conference Attendees Square Books 10:00 PM |
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| Monday, July 31st | ||
| 9:00 AM |
Faulkner and the Southern Religious Culture Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi Education Auditorium 9:00 AM |
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| 10:30 AM |
The Ravished Daughter: Eleusinian Mysteries in The Sound and the Fury Doreen Fowler, University of Mississippi Education Auditorium 10:30 AM |
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| 1:30 PM |
Clyde Edgerton, St. Andrews Presbyterian College Education Auditorium 1:30 PM |
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| 3:00 PM |
J. M. Faulkner Education Auditorium 3:00 PM |
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| 8:00 PM |
The Heterodoxy of Faulkner's Christian Imagination: Race and Family in The Sound and the Fury Giles Gunn, University of California, Santa Barbara Education Auditorium 8:00 PM |
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| Tuesday, August 1st | ||
| 9:00 AM |
Guided Tours of North Mississippi Various Guides Various locations 9:00 AM |
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| 5:00 PM |
Conference Attendees Noyes Home/130 Leighton Road 5:00 PM |
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| 8:00 PM |
Gnosticism and Incarnation: World Rejection in Faulkner's Early Fiction Richard H. King, University of Nottingham Education Auditorium 8:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, August 2nd | ||
| 9:00 AM |
Quentin as Redactor: Biblical Analogy in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Glenn Meeter, Northern Illinois University Education Auditorium 9:00 AM |
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| 10:30 AM |
Order as Disorder: Absalom, Absalom!'s Inversion of the Judeo-Christian Creation Myth William D. Lindsey, Xavier University Education Auditorium 10:30 AM |
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| 1:30 PM |
Multiple Speakers Various locations 1:30 PM |
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| 3:00 PM |
Robert W. Hamblin, Southeast Missouri State University Lamar Law Center/Ethridge Moot Court Room 3:00 PM |
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| 4:40 PM |
Conference Attendees Bailey's Woods 4:40 PM |
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| 5:30 PM |
Conference Attendees Rowan Oak 5:30 PM |
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| 8:00 PM |
Determinism, Compassion, and the God of Defeat Alfred Kazin, Hunter College. City University of New York Education Auditorium 8:00 PM |
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| Thursday, August 3rd | ||
| 9:00 AM |
The Dream Deferred: William Faulkner's Metaphysics of Absence Alexander J. Marshall III, Randolph-Macon College Education Auditorium 9:00 AM |
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| 10:30 AM |
Oxford Women Remember Faulkner Chester A. McLarty Education Auditorium 10:30 AM |
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| 8:00 PM |
The Religious Dimensions of Faulkner's Work and Recent Southern Fiction Willie Morris, University of Mississippi Education Auditorium 8:00 PM |
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| Friday, August 4th | ||
| 9:00 AM |
The Crucifixion in Light in August Virginia V. Hlavsa Education Auditorium 9:00 AM |
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| 10:30 AM |
A Passion Week of the Heart: Religion and Faulkner's Art Evans Harrington, University of Mississippi Education Auditorium 10:30 AM |
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| 1:30 PM |
Multiple Speakers Various locations 1:30 PM |
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| 3:00 PM |
Robert W. Hamblin, Southeast Missouri State University Lamar Law Center/Ethridge Moot Court Room 3:00 PM |
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| 6:00 PM |
Closing Session: Hospitality Hour, Banquet, Readings and Discussion Larry Brown University Inn 6:00 PM |
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