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2010 Abbeville Institute Summer
School
EIGHTH
ANNUAL ABBEVILLE INSTITUTE SUMMER SCHOOL,
"The Greatness of Southern Literature,"
Seabrook Island, South Carolina, July 25-30, 2010.
Topic: The American South in
modern times has produced an astonishing number of world-class authors. In the long run of history it is by its great literature that a people are known. What would we grasp of ancient Greece without Homer, of Rome without Virgil, of England without Shakespeare, Austen, and Dickens? The body of Southern literature constitutes the profoundest element in a generally superficial American national culture. In the long view, Southern literature may be the most significant and lasting American contribution to civilization.
Abbeville Institute scholars will explore the origins of
the great tradition of Southern letters: William Gilmore Simms,
Edgar Allan Poe, the "Southwestern Humourists" (who
created Mark Twain), Thomas Nelson Page, Joel Chandler Harris
as well as the high points of modern fiction and poetry--William
Faulkner, the Southern Fugitive/Agrarians, Flannery O'Connor, Walker
Percy, George Garrett, and others. This tradition
of letters has produced not only insightful images of things
human and divine, but in doing so has produced a profound
critique of American modernity.
Place: The conference center is set in a palmetto grove on the beach of Seabrook Island. We will spend a day on a literary tour of Charleston writers.
Faculty: Clyde Wilson, William
Wilson, James Kibler, Sean Busick, Jack Trotter, Thomas Landess,
Barbara Tate, David Aiken, and Alan Harrelson.
Cost and Scholarships: Tuition, room, and three meals a day is $900.00 per person for a single room and $725.00 for a double. Scholarships are available for college and graduate students who are encouraged to apply.
Inquiries: Abbeville Institute, P. O. Box 10. McClellanville,
SC 29458. Phone: 843-323-0690. Email: mml@abbevilleinstitute.org
or abbevilleinst@bellsouth.net.
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