The October 7th session of A House and a Home: Reckoning with Racial Disparity in Property Ownership will now be led by Stephany Mgbadigha, Air Alliance Houston’s Advocacy and Legal Director. We are thrilled that she’ll be sharing with us her expertise on the important connections between environmental justice and the wealth gap.
Two Exemplary American Modernists: Falkner and Stevens
January 1, 2001 @ 12:00 am - May 31, 2001 @ 11:59 am
Two Exemplary American Modernists: Falkner and Stevens
DAVID MINTER
JANUARY 18
Loss, Disillusionment, and the Origins of Literary Modernism:
Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning”
JANUARY 25
The Resilient Imagination and the Logic of High Modernism:
Wallace Stevens, “The Idea of Order at Key West”
FEBRUARY 1
Loss, Disillusionment, and the Corruption of Public Institutions:
William Faulkner, Sanctuary
FEBRUARY 8 AND 22
The Resilient Imagination and the Logic of High Modernism Revisited:
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
David Minter is the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University and the author of several books, including A Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner, published in 1994 by Cambridge University Press and the forthcoming Faulkner's Questioning Narratives.
The two poems by Wallace Stevens are printed in Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose, The Library of America, 1997. The novels by William Faulkner are available in several editions.
Drinks will be provided, and participants may bring a sack lunch.