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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.
2010 Summer School
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Readings
Essential Reading:
•William Faulkner, The Unvanquished (available
in most libraries and in inexpensive paperback)
•A Packet of Reading mailed to Summer School Participants, which included:
*William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Address
*A Poetry Sampler
*Ludwell H. Johnson, "The Mythmanagement of History," from
Southern Partisan
Suggested
Reading:
Edgar Allan Poe "Boston and the Bostonians," "Philosophy of
Composition," "The Poetic Principle" (copies of Poe's collected
works are in many libraries)
James E. Kibler, Introduction
to The Selected Poems of William Gilmore Simms
Twelve Southerners,
"A Statement of Principles," from I'll Take My Stand
Walker Percy, "The Last Donohue
Show," from Lost in the Cosmos
George Garrett, "Southern Literature
Here and Now" (available In Garrett's The Sorrows of Fat City and in Fifteen Southerners, Why the South Will Survive)
Program:
| SUNDAY, JULY 25 |
| 4:00-6:00 |
Registration (Registration and all lectures are in the Temple) |
| 6:30-7:30 |
Supper |
| 7:30- |
Clyde Wilson, "We are What We Remember: The Literature
of the South" " |
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| MONDAY, JULY 26 |
| 8:00-9:00 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Clyde Wilson, "The Old South and the Origins of a Real American Literature" |
| l0:30-11:30 |
Sean Busick, "William Gilmore Simms' Place in American Literature, Part 1" |
| 12:00-1:00 |
Dinner |
| 1:00-4:00 |
Free Time |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Sean Busick, "William Gilmore Simms' Place in American Literature, Part 2" |
| 5:30-6:30 |
Alan Harrelson, "Interwar Charleston Writers and the Southern Tradition" |
| 6:30-7:30 |
Supper |
| 7:30- |
Mary Barbara Tate, "Personal Recollections of Flannery O'Connor." |
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| TUESDAY, JULY 27 |
| 8:00-9:00 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
James Kibler, "Faulkner as Southerner" |
| 10:30 - 11:30 |
James Kibler, "The Fugitive Agrarians in World Perspective." |
| 12:00 - 1:00 |
Dinner |
| 1:00 - 4:00 |
Free Time |
| 4:00 - 5:00 |
William Wilson, "Walker Percy: Southern Gentlemen in the New South" |
| 5:00 - 6:00 |
William Wilson, "Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Sacramental Imagination." |
| 6:30 - 7:30 |
Dinner |
| 7:30- |
Readings, Music and Conviviality |
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| WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 |
| 8:00 - 9:00 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Tom Landess, "The Southern Agrarians: Some Personal Recollections" |
| 10:30 - 11:30 |
Tom Landess, "Southern Scholarship vs. Neo-Conservatism: M.E. Bradford and the National Endowment for the Humanities" |
| 12:00- |
Dinner at St. Christopher's followed by a Literary Tour of Charleston. Supper at A.W. Shucks,70 State Street, 6:30 pm. Those who wish to do so may return in the evening to the Temple for conviviality. |
| THURSDAY, JULY 29 |
| 8:00 - 9:00 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Jack Trotter, "Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson Page and the New South Movement" |
| 10:30 - 11:30 |
Discussion of Faulkner's The Unvanquished |
| 12:00 - 1:00 |
Dinner |
| 1:00 - 4:00 |
Free Time |
| 4:00 - 6:00 |
Open Discussion of Southern Literature |
| 6:30 - 7:30 |
Supper |
| 7:30- |
Poetry Readings, Music and Conviviality |
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| FRIDAY, JULY 30 |
| 8:00 - 9:00 |
Breakfast and Departure |
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