Workshop: Pulp Faulkner
Location
Faulkner Room. Archives & Special Collections. J. D. Williams Library
Start Date
23-7-2024 9:30 AM
Description
William Faulkner has long been presented as a Great American Writer, featured in AP English classes, and used as a kind of literary gatekeeper for high school and college students alike. Students are frequently mystified by this version of Faulkner and react with shame, anger, and dismissal. What if, instead, we read Faulkner in the varied print cultures of his cultural moment, particularly his engagements with popular forms? How, through this engagement with print culture, might our students draw connections between his cultural moment and their own?
This in-person workshop considers the pedagogical benefits of embracing “pulp” Faulkner in his varied modes of print—in popular magazines, pulp paperback reprints, sensationalist “modern” presses—and in conversation with various genres, including mysteries, “women’s fiction,” gangster novels, and sex paperbacks. We will use Faulkner and Print Culture as a grounding text and meet in the Faulkner Room of the Special Collections division of the J. D. Williams Library to look at Signet reprints and issues of the many magazines that published Faulkner’s short fiction, paying attention to surrounding advertisements, companion articles, and other contextual information. We will consider how this material might inform our own teaching of Faulkner and brainstorm lesson plans and assignments.
Participants will be emailed materials before the conference. In the workshop, we will engage in facilitated conversation and end with a general discussion about teaching strategies.
To register, go to the Google form at tinyurl.com/pulpfaulkner. Inquiries should be directed to Jaime Harker at jlharker@olemiss.edu. This workshop is not available to remote registrants. PLEASE NOTE THAT SEATS IN THIS WORKSHOP MUST BE RESERVED BY MONDAY, JULY 8..
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Harker, Jaime and Shelton, Ellen, "Workshop: Pulp Faulkner" (2024). Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. 20.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fy/2024/schedule/20
Workshop: Pulp Faulkner
Faulkner Room. Archives & Special Collections. J. D. Williams Library
William Faulkner has long been presented as a Great American Writer, featured in AP English classes, and used as a kind of literary gatekeeper for high school and college students alike. Students are frequently mystified by this version of Faulkner and react with shame, anger, and dismissal. What if, instead, we read Faulkner in the varied print cultures of his cultural moment, particularly his engagements with popular forms? How, through this engagement with print culture, might our students draw connections between his cultural moment and their own?
This in-person workshop considers the pedagogical benefits of embracing “pulp” Faulkner in his varied modes of print—in popular magazines, pulp paperback reprints, sensationalist “modern” presses—and in conversation with various genres, including mysteries, “women’s fiction,” gangster novels, and sex paperbacks. We will use Faulkner and Print Culture as a grounding text and meet in the Faulkner Room of the Special Collections division of the J. D. Williams Library to look at Signet reprints and issues of the many magazines that published Faulkner’s short fiction, paying attention to surrounding advertisements, companion articles, and other contextual information. We will consider how this material might inform our own teaching of Faulkner and brainstorm lesson plans and assignments.
Participants will be emailed materials before the conference. In the workshop, we will engage in facilitated conversation and end with a general discussion about teaching strategies.
To register, go to the Google form at tinyurl.com/pulpfaulkner. Inquiries should be directed to Jaime Harker at jlharker@olemiss.edu. This workshop is not available to remote registrants. PLEASE NOTE THAT SEATS IN THIS WORKSHOP MUST BE RESERVED BY MONDAY, JULY 8..