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Southern Humanities ConferenceAuthor(s): Edd Winfield ParksSource: South Atlantic Bulletin, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Nov., 1961), p. 11Published by: South Atlantic Modern Language AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3197839 .
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November, 1961 SOUTH ATLANTIC BULLETIN Page Eleven November, 1961 SOUTH ATLANTIC BULLETIN Page Eleven
Method in the Novels of James Gould Cozzens. (Walter Sullivan)
Lawlor, Virginia Golladay. Historical Back- ground of Cultural Forces in Wilson County, Tenn. (Randall Stewart)
Leamon, Warren Coleman. Time of the First Rains and Other Stories. (Walter Sul- livan)
Lott, John Bertrand. Matthew Arnold as Satir- ist. Ph.D. (Edgar H. Duncan)
Merritt, Bettie Jean. The Frontier Novels of Willa Cather. (George N. Bennett)
Padgett, Robert Herbert. Rhetorical Motive: An Essay in Definition. (John M. Aden)
Pate, Frances Willard. Order Out of Disor- der: The Theme of The Sound and the Fury. (Walter Sullivan)
Smeak, Ethel Mae. Imagery in the Plays of George Chapman. (Cyrus Hoy)
Taylor, Auvella Louise. The Autobiography of Peter Cartwright and the Humor of the Old Southwest. (Randall Stewart)
Watson, Susan Patricia Fyfe. Chaucer's Leg- end of Good Women. (Rob Roy Purdy)
Weber, Louise Eizabeth. Richard Crashaw and Middle English Devotional Literature. (Cyrus Hoy)
FRENCH
Josephs, Mary Jim Russell. The Role of the Woman in the Plays of Jean Giraudoux. (Howard Sutton)
University of Virginia
ENGLISH
Bakker, Jan. The American Democrat and The Littlepage Manuscripts: James Fenimore
Cooper's Concept of the Aristocracy and Democracy in Frontier America. (J. B. Colvert)
Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph. The Composition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. A Study Based on the Manuscripts. Ph.D. (Fredson Bowers)
Cacciapaglia, John Thomas. An Interpretation of The Bridge. (Floyd Stovall)
Coffey, Nancy Page. The World of Nathanael West. (J. B. Colvert)
Daniel, Nathaniel Venable, Jr. The Bible as a Gloss on Paradise Lost III, 173-202. (Fredson Bowers)
Estes, Zirkle James, Jr. A Critique of the Novels of Fanny Burney. (J. B. Col- vert)
Firth, John Mirkil III. Musical Instruments in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (A. L. Hench)
Flannagan, Roy Catesby, Jr. Milton's "Mis- ogyny" Reexamined: Eve the Transgressor. (Fredson Bowers)
Fogelman, Roger Harry. Dialect and Oral- Formulaic Composition in Homer and Beowulf. (A. L. Hench)
Gaugier, Jacqueline Claude. Love and Mar- riage in Robinson's Shorter Poems. (J. L. Blotner)
Gordon, Mary Statler. Delano's Voyages and Melville's Benito Cereno: Historical Nar- rative and the Art of Fiction. (J. B. Colvert)
Houck, Joseph Kemp. Classical Mythology in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe. (I. B. Cauthen, Jr.)
McNally, James Joseph. The Political Thought of Robert Browning. (A. K. Davis, Jr.)
Mowat, Barbara Adams. Tragedy in The Win- ter's Tale. (Fredson Bowers)
Murphy, Morris Andrew. Faust to Faustus: From Chapbook Character to Tragic Hero.
Method in the Novels of James Gould Cozzens. (Walter Sullivan)
Lawlor, Virginia Golladay. Historical Back- ground of Cultural Forces in Wilson County, Tenn. (Randall Stewart)
Leamon, Warren Coleman. Time of the First Rains and Other Stories. (Walter Sul- livan)
Lott, John Bertrand. Matthew Arnold as Satir- ist. Ph.D. (Edgar H. Duncan)
Merritt, Bettie Jean. The Frontier Novels of Willa Cather. (George N. Bennett)
Padgett, Robert Herbert. Rhetorical Motive: An Essay in Definition. (John M. Aden)
Pate, Frances Willard. Order Out of Disor- der: The Theme of The Sound and the Fury. (Walter Sullivan)
Smeak, Ethel Mae. Imagery in the Plays of George Chapman. (Cyrus Hoy)
Taylor, Auvella Louise. The Autobiography of Peter Cartwright and the Humor of the Old Southwest. (Randall Stewart)
Watson, Susan Patricia Fyfe. Chaucer's Leg- end of Good Women. (Rob Roy Purdy)
Weber, Louise Eizabeth. Richard Crashaw and Middle English Devotional Literature. (Cyrus Hoy)
FRENCH
Josephs, Mary Jim Russell. The Role of the Woman in the Plays of Jean Giraudoux. (Howard Sutton)
University of Virginia
ENGLISH
Bakker, Jan. The American Democrat and The Littlepage Manuscripts: James Fenimore
Cooper's Concept of the Aristocracy and Democracy in Frontier America. (J. B. Colvert)
Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph. The Composition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. A Study Based on the Manuscripts. Ph.D. (Fredson Bowers)
Cacciapaglia, John Thomas. An Interpretation of The Bridge. (Floyd Stovall)
Coffey, Nancy Page. The World of Nathanael West. (J. B. Colvert)
Daniel, Nathaniel Venable, Jr. The Bible as a Gloss on Paradise Lost III, 173-202. (Fredson Bowers)
Estes, Zirkle James, Jr. A Critique of the Novels of Fanny Burney. (J. B. Col- vert)
Firth, John Mirkil III. Musical Instruments in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (A. L. Hench)
Flannagan, Roy Catesby, Jr. Milton's "Mis- ogyny" Reexamined: Eve the Transgressor. (Fredson Bowers)
Fogelman, Roger Harry. Dialect and Oral- Formulaic Composition in Homer and Beowulf. (A. L. Hench)
Gaugier, Jacqueline Claude. Love and Mar- riage in Robinson's Shorter Poems. (J. L. Blotner)
Gordon, Mary Statler. Delano's Voyages and Melville's Benito Cereno: Historical Nar- rative and the Art of Fiction. (J. B. Colvert)
Houck, Joseph Kemp. Classical Mythology in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe. (I. B. Cauthen, Jr.)
McNally, James Joseph. The Political Thought of Robert Browning. (A. K. Davis, Jr.)
Mowat, Barbara Adams. Tragedy in The Win- ter's Tale. (Fredson Bowers)
Murphy, Morris Andrew. Faust to Faustus: From Chapbook Character to Tragic Hero. (I. B. Cauthen, Jr.)
Pelham, Peter Dunlap. The Ambiguity of a
(I. B. Cauthen, Jr.) Pelham, Peter Dunlap. The Ambiguity of a
Haunted Mind: A Study of Six Works by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (J. B. Colvert)
Ritchie, Adam Burke. The Fiction of William Styron. (J. B. Colvert)
Saltz, Robert David. The Tragic Sense of Life in the Plays of John Millington Synge. (I. B. Cauthen, Jr.)
3tillwell, John Amos. The Problem of Am- biguity in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. (J. B. Colvert)
FRENCH
Bailey, William Wheat, Jr. Maxence Van der Meersch: The Man and His Works. Ph.D. (J. M. Carriere)
Barney, Keith Richard, Jr. Patriotism: The French Novel of the Great War. (A. C. Proulx)
Southern Humanities Conference
The fourteenth annual meeting, April 13-15, 1961, of the Southern Humanities Conference, held in the Continuing Education Center at Ath- ens, Georgia, by invitation of the Uni- versity of Georgia, got off to an airy and perhaps even a flying start when five participants appeared on a closed circuit television program. A. M. Sulli- van, R. H. West, John E. Tilford, Charles P. Anson, and A. B. Robertson discussed perceptively some of the problems that confront the humanities in the business community, and some of the shortcomings that business finds in the present teaching of the humani- ties.
Friday morning was devoted mainly to official greetings and to the neces- sary business session of the Confer- ence. That afternoon, the Conference got down to its real business. This year, all the panels and speeches dealt with the general topic: "A Realistic Scrutiny: The Humanities in the Busi- ness Community." The first panel had the specific topic, "What Can the Busi- ness Community Justifiably Expect of the Humanistic Disciplines?" John Til- ford presided, A. B. Robertson, James M. Parrish, and Paul K. Vonk served as panelists, A. M. Sullivan, James E. Gates, and Robert H. West as analysts, and H. B. Moore as evaluator. Con- siderable heat was generated and some enlightening points made, but there was little agreement as to how cooperation could be brought about. For its minor executives, business prefers the techni- cally-trained man; although it does some recruiting among students trained in the humanities with an eye to men capable of developing into top- flight executives, this remains a minor part of the recruiting program. Mr. Robertson protested, but he admitted
Haunted Mind: A Study of Six Works by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (J. B. Colvert)
Ritchie, Adam Burke. The Fiction of William Styron. (J. B. Colvert)
Saltz, Robert David. The Tragic Sense of Life in the Plays of John Millington Synge. (I. B. Cauthen, Jr.)
3tillwell, John Amos. The Problem of Am- biguity in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. (J. B. Colvert)
FRENCH
Bailey, William Wheat, Jr. Maxence Van der Meersch: The Man and His Works. Ph.D. (J. M. Carriere)
Barney, Keith Richard, Jr. Patriotism: The French Novel of the Great War. (A. C. Proulx)
Southern Humanities Conference
The fourteenth annual meeting, April 13-15, 1961, of the Southern Humanities Conference, held in the Continuing Education Center at Ath- ens, Georgia, by invitation of the Uni- versity of Georgia, got off to an airy and perhaps even a flying start when five participants appeared on a closed circuit television program. A. M. Sulli- van, R. H. West, John E. Tilford, Charles P. Anson, and A. B. Robertson discussed perceptively some of the problems that confront the humanities in the business community, and some of the shortcomings that business finds in the present teaching of the humani- ties.
Friday morning was devoted mainly to official greetings and to the neces- sary business session of the Confer- ence. That afternoon, the Conference got down to its real business. This year, all the panels and speeches dealt with the general topic: "A Realistic Scrutiny: The Humanities in the Busi- ness Community." The first panel had the specific topic, "What Can the Busi- ness Community Justifiably Expect of the Humanistic Disciplines?" John Til- ford presided, A. B. Robertson, James M. Parrish, and Paul K. Vonk served as panelists, A. M. Sullivan, James E. Gates, and Robert H. West as analysts, and H. B. Moore as evaluator. Con- siderable heat was generated and some enlightening points made, but there was little agreement as to how cooperation could be brought about. For its minor executives, business prefers the techni- cally-trained man; although it does some recruiting among students trained in the humanities with an eye to men capable of developing into top- flight executives, this remains a minor part of the recruiting program. Mr. Robertson protested, but he admitted that most companies were immediately interested in training technicians. The that most companies were immediately interested in training technicians. The
consensus seems to be that businesses prefer when possible that the colleges do their apprentice training for them, even though recognizing that in the long run men trained in humanistic studies are likely to have the advan- tage.
The second panel discussed the re- verse topic: "What Can the Humanities Expect of the Business and Industrial Community?" Here, business was in the ascendancy, for there was a sad dearth of representatives of the human- ities. Since there were several absen- tees and in consequence last-minute substitutions, I omit a list of these participants.
At the banquet on Friday evening, A. M. Sullivan spoke on "The Three- Dimensional Man." Mr. Sullivan is a poet, a businessman, and editor of Dun's Review and Modern Industry. After a spirited defense of manage- ment in business, he turned to the need for the humanities as the one way to get back to an evaluation of human beings. One difficulty with the human- ities is that too often it is taught as an academic skill, and not as a discipline. As a result, man has become a frag- mented rather than a three-dimensional man: without minimizing the need for skills and techniques, he felt that the humanistic discipline should add a spiritual and mental and human com- prehension.
At the business meeting on Saturday morning, the Southern Humanities Conference accepted the invitation of the University of Alabama to meet at Tuscaloosa, April 13-14, 1962. The new officers are A. E. Bigge, University of Kentucky, Chairman; Edd Winfield Parks, University of Georgia, Vice- Chairman; Eugene Current-Garcia, Au- burn University, Secretary-Treasurer. Sturgis E. Leavitt continues as Editor of all Southern Humanities Conference publications.
EDD WINFIELD PARKS, Delegate.
Samla in MLA Two members of Samla-Fredson
Bowers of Virginia and Jules Alciatore of Georgia-are nominees for the executive council of the MLA. They should receive solid Samla support.
Emory Alwin Thaler, professor emeritus of
English at Tennessee, is currently visiting professor of English at Emory.
consensus seems to be that businesses prefer when possible that the colleges do their apprentice training for them, even though recognizing that in the long run men trained in humanistic studies are likely to have the advan- tage.
The second panel discussed the re- verse topic: "What Can the Humanities Expect of the Business and Industrial Community?" Here, business was in the ascendancy, for there was a sad dearth of representatives of the human- ities. Since there were several absen- tees and in consequence last-minute substitutions, I omit a list of these participants.
At the banquet on Friday evening, A. M. Sullivan spoke on "The Three- Dimensional Man." Mr. Sullivan is a poet, a businessman, and editor of Dun's Review and Modern Industry. After a spirited defense of manage- ment in business, he turned to the need for the humanities as the one way to get back to an evaluation of human beings. One difficulty with the human- ities is that too often it is taught as an academic skill, and not as a discipline. As a result, man has become a frag- mented rather than a three-dimensional man: without minimizing the need for skills and techniques, he felt that the humanistic discipline should add a spiritual and mental and human com- prehension.
At the business meeting on Saturday morning, the Southern Humanities Conference accepted the invitation of the University of Alabama to meet at Tuscaloosa, April 13-14, 1962. The new officers are A. E. Bigge, University of Kentucky, Chairman; Edd Winfield Parks, University of Georgia, Vice- Chairman; Eugene Current-Garcia, Au- burn University, Secretary-Treasurer. Sturgis E. Leavitt continues as Editor of all Southern Humanities Conference publications.
EDD WINFIELD PARKS, Delegate.
Samla in MLA Two members of Samla-Fredson
Bowers of Virginia and Jules Alciatore of Georgia-are nominees for the executive council of the MLA. They should receive solid Samla support.
Emory Alwin Thaler, professor emeritus of
English at Tennessee, is currently visiting professor of English at Emory. He and Mrs. Thaler will depart for Europe in the late spring.
He and Mrs. Thaler will depart for Europe in the late spring.
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