{"id":14572,"date":"2012-05-24T15:15:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T20:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=14572"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:32:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:32:29","slug":"exhibit-coincides-with-faulkner-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/exhibit-coincides-with-faulkner-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit coincides with Faulkner anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RKJ_0967-F-ZF-4233-10534-1-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14586\" title=\"RKJ_0967-F (ZF-4233-10534-1-001)\" src=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RKJ_0967-F-ZF-4233-10534-1-001-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RKJ_0967-F-ZF-4233-10534-1-001-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RKJ_0967-F-ZF-4233-10534-1-001.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>The J.D. Williams Library is present\u00ading a new exhibit in conjunction with the 39th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference and the 50th anniversary of William Faulkner\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit, \u201cFaulkner and Missis\u00adsippi,\u201d will include photographs and reproductions of the renowned author\u2019s manuscripts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI encourage people to come to see Faulkner materials,\u201d said Jennifer Ford, director of Archives and Special Collec\u00adtions. \u201cThere will be interesting materi\u00adals dealing with Faulkner\u2019s books and Faulkner in the movies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The exhibit will be set up in cases outside Special Collections in the hall\u00adway on the third floor of the library. It will be open to the public throughout the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor members of the public who take pride in Faulkner\u2019s contributions to our literary legacy or are curious about his life and career but may not be familiar with his novels and stories, the library exhibit offers a great opportunity to be\u00adgin \u2018getting to know\u2019 Faulkner without necessarily spending night after night curled up with one of his masterpieces,\u201d said Jay Watson, Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and professor of Eng\u00adlish. \u201cHis typescripts, manuscripts and galley proofs, with their marginal notes and corrections, are fascinating documents of the creative pro\u00adcess \u2013 even his hand\u00adwriting is fascinating, tiny and precise, and oddly beautiful on the page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecial Collec\u00adtions includes hold\u00adings that give us insight into the mar\u00adketing of his works and their adapta\u00adtion for film and television, as well as letters that give us glimpses into his private life, which he guarded very jealously. It\u2019s a won\u00adderful opportunity for Faulkner con\u00adnoisseurs and Faulkner novices alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On July 6, the actual 50th anniversary of Faulkner\u2019s death in 1962, there will be a daylong program of events around Oxford called \u201cA William Faulkner Re\u00admembrance.\u201d The day will include<\/p>\n<p>\u2022A marathon reading of Faulkner\u2019s fi\u00adnal novel, <em>The Reivers, <\/em>on the grounds of Rowan Oak, the Faulkner residence, starting at 6:30 a.m. and ending around 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Keynote addresses on Faulkner\u2019s legacy by Faulkner biographer Philip M. Weinstein and writer Randall Kenan, sched\u00aduled for the second-floor court\u00adroom in the Lafayette County Courthouse at 4:15 p.m. Faulkner immortalized the courthouse in his fiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022An evening screening of the 1969 film adaptation of <em>The Reivers<\/em>, starring Steve McQueen, scheduled for 8 p.m. at The Lyric on the Oxford Square.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The J.D. Williams Library is present\u00ading a new exhibit in conjunction with the 39th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference and the 50th anniversary of William Faulkner\u2019s death. 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