{"id":111947,"date":"2022-07-15T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=111947"},"modified":"2022-07-15T09:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:31:16","slug":"conference-to-examine-faulkners-modernisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/conference-to-examine-faulkners-modernisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference to Examine Faulkner’s Modernisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Nobel Prize-winning Mississippi author William Faulkner will be examined through the lens of modernism during the University of Mississippi<\/a>‘s 48th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, set for July 17\u201321.<\/p>\n

Focusing on the theme “Faulkner’s Modernisms,” the hybrid international conference includes five days of lectures, panels, tours and other presentations. All keynote presentations, panels, film screenings and teaching sessions will be held in-person with a remote option for international scholars prohibited from traveling to the U.S.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“Few literary scholars would dispute the fact that William Faulkner deserves a place in the front ranks of modernist writers,” said Jay Watson, Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and conference coordinator. “Yet there is far less consensus on what his modernism \u2013 or what literary modernism in general \u2013 actually entails or how to characterize its defining elements.<\/p>\n

“This year’s conference will take up these questions with fresh eyes and an open mind, in the spirit of what literary critics have come to call the ‘new modernist studies’ scholarship.”<\/p>\n

Keynote speakers and topics for the conference include:<\/p>\n