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William Faulkner and Eudora Welty: Windows on Culture
A Seminar Presented by
The Eudora Welty House and Millsaps College
February 24, 2012
8:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Eudora Welty House Education and Visitors Center
1109 Pinehurst Street
Jackson, Mississippi
Cost: $35. Checks for the seminar should be made payable to Millsaps College. A school purchase order is also acceptable.
.5 CEU credit for participants is included in the cost of the seminar.
Lunch (from 11:15-12:15) is on your own and not included in the registration fee.
In many ways the works of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty represent the literary themes and techniques of the twentieth century, especially those we find in southern writing. The steady transformation of a rural population into communities of small towns and, later, cities; the alienation and dislocations depicted in modernist fiction; and the American penchant for fleeing the past while at the same time honoring it—these are attributes of Faulkner and Welty. Explore with us these themes as we discuss these authors and their work.
Faculty:
Suzanne Marrs is the editor of the newly published What There is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell and is the author of two award-winning books, One Writer’s Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, and Eudora Welty, A Biography. She has received the Phoenix Award for Distinguished Welty Scholarship from the Eudora Welty Society and the Distinguished Professor Award from Millsaps College, where she is Professor of English and Welty Foundation Scholar-in-Residence.
Peggy Whitman Prenshaw is the Millsaps College Humanities Scholar-in-Residence and Fred C. Frey Professor Emerita at Louisiana State University. She has written and edited books on southern women writers and this year has won the 2011 Jules and Frances Landry award for Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography, published by the LSU Press. She is the general editor of the University Press of Mississippi's Conversations series and the editor of the volumes on Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Spencer in the series.
Free tours of the Welty House will be held at 3:00 pm for those who have not seen the house or who wish to visit again.
Contact: Wanda Manor, Office of Continuing Education, Millsaps College
E-mail: manorwl@millsaps.edu or Phone: 601-974-1133
Click here for registration form.
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