Silence And Self-Making: Black Lung Rhetoric And The Ken Hechler Letters,
2012
Marshall University
Silence And Self-Making: Black Lung Rhetoric And The Ken Hechler Letters, Jennifer De Pompei
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
This thesis combines history, rhetoric, and feminist identity studies to discuss the subject of black lung disease and the Appalachian coal miner. The first chapter examines the "evolution of mentalities" in historical and popular discourse surrounding the miner, which reflects James V. Catano's subversive form of the self-making identity in Ragged Dicks. The second chapter uses the feminist theory of silence as a form of control and power to understand the absence of black lung disease from the literature of coal. The final chapter is a case study of the correspondence between Congressional Representative Ken Hechler of West Virginia and …
West Virginian Dancers: The Creation And Development Of The West Virginia Ballet Festival/West Virginia Dance Festival Community,
2012
Marshall University
West Virginian Dancers: The Creation And Development Of The West Virginia Ballet Festival/West Virginia Dance Festival Community, Lauren Angel
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
This thesis examines the West Virginia Ballet Festival (WVBF), which began in 1968 and became the West Virginia Dance Festival (WVDF) in 1981. This work studies the four groups that made up the festival community, including the West Virginia performance dance teachers who founded the festival, the West Virginia performance dance students who attend the events, the out-of-state professional guest artists who taught and performed at the festivals, and the nonartistic professional administrators who organized the WVDF. The WVBF/WVDF was part of West Virginia regional culture and the national performance dance boom. I argue that performance dance must be incorporated …
"Thrown On Their Own Resources": Collaboration As Survival In Imitation Of Life,
2012
Western Kentucky University
"Thrown On Their Own Resources": Collaboration As Survival In Imitation Of Life, Kristi Branham
Faculty Publications
The article presents an analysis of the film adaptation of "Imitation of Life," a 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst. It states that the repetition of the story across the first half of the twentieth century shows its resonance for U.S. audiences. It mentions that the woman question and the race question are brought together in the passing story in both the 1934 and 1959 film versions of the novel.
Hillbillies, Rednecks, Crackers And White Trash,
2012
Western Kentucky University
Hillbillies, Rednecks, Crackers And White Trash, Anthony Harkins
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
“Always The Truth, And Always The Lie”: Language As Symbol In Brother To Dragons,
2012
Brandeis University
“Always The Truth, And Always The Lie”: Language As Symbol In Brother To Dragons, Allison Vanouse
Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren, in an introductory note to Brother to Dragons, writes that the poem is not ruled by action, but by its characters’ “inner urgencies ... the urgencies of argument.” He seems to be addressing something about the agency of language. In addressing the intoxicating puissance of argument itself, Warren activates a strange and uneasy space between words and the truths they try to describe. It is by navigating this space that he draws parallels between the voice of Thomas Jefferson — struggling with the unfulfilled legacy of his political writings — and the troubled role of the poet …
A Critical Look At Robert Penn Warren’S New (And Old) Criticism On Satire,
2012
University of Louisville
A Critical Look At Robert Penn Warren’S New (And Old) Criticism On Satire, Michael Sobiech
Robert Penn Warren Studies
Although a father of New Criticism, Warren did not always restrict his analysis of a text to the text itself. In his work with John Marston’s satires, Warren appears to go against what will become key attributes of New Critical theory. This essay explores Warren’s work with Marston’s satires, in particular examining his historicizing of the text, arguing for a more complicated view of Warren’s New Criticism.
The Windhover And Evening Hawk Shudder In Sync: Gerard Manley Hopkins And Robert Penn Warren,
2012
Texas A & M University
The Windhover And Evening Hawk Shudder In Sync: Gerard Manley Hopkins And Robert Penn Warren, D.A. Carpenter
Robert Penn Warren Studies
The author traces the philosophical and poetic similarities between Robert Penn Warren and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In doing so, he addresses the meditative process that Warren and Hopkins use in their work in order to demonstrate human connectedness to each other and nature in the form of what could be called a mystic unity. Integral to this meditative process is Hopkins’ idiosyncratic concepts of “inscape” and “instress,” which are defined and explored by the author while demonstrating how Warren’s work is in dialogue with these concepts, particularly in his 1968 collection of poems, Incarnations.
Robert Penn Warren And Photography,
2012
Western Kentucky University
Robert Penn Warren And Photography, Joseph Millichap
Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren’s career and canon demonstrate his more than casual interest in photography, much like those of several contemporaries in the Southern Renaissance. Warren’s 1972 essay about photographer Walker Evans recalls how photographs in the 1930s opened the emerging writer’s imagination to the power inherent in any art form to revise commonplace perceptions of social and subjective reality. Evans and many other photographers thus influenced Warren in his use of photographic tropes for an artistic transformation of the visual art of photography into the verbal art of literature. My close readings of recreated photographs in several major works of …
Twilight Of The Boss: All The King’S Men And Norse Mythology,
2012
Gainesville State College
Twilight Of The Boss: All The King’S Men And Norse Mythology, Leverett Butts
Robert Penn Warren Studies
This essay explores the deep connections between Warren’s third novel and Norse mythology, particularly the Ragnarok myth. By comparing characters, settings, and events in the novel with various figures from Norse mythology, as well as Richard Wagner’s operatic interpretation of the Ragnarok myth Ring of the Nibelung, this paper contends that Warren employs Norse myths that mirror his own themes of balance and acceptance that run throughout his novel.
Editor’S Foreword (Volume 9),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Editor’S Foreword (Volume 9), Mark D. Miller
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
Notes On Contributors (Volume 9),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Notes On Contributors (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
About The Center (Volume 9),
2012
Western Kentucky University
About The Center (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
About The Circle (Volume 9),
2012
Western Kentucky University
About The Circle (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
Dedication Page (Volume 9),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Dedication Page (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
About The Birthplace (Volume 9),
2012
Western Kentucky University
About The Birthplace (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 9),
2012
Western Kentucky University
About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
Rpw Birthplace: Where It All Began,
2012
Western Kentucky University
Rpw Birthplace: Where It All Began, Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
Confessions Of A Footnoter,
2012
Western Kentucky University
Confessions Of A Footnoter, Paula Newman Miner, James A. Perkins
Robert Penn Warren Studies
In his “confessions,” the Footnoter, one of the three editors of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, shares trade secrets, spins tales, and recounts anecdotes of success and failure in his attempts to bring understanding to metonymy, synecdoche, allusion, and suggestion as well as to identify individuals mentioned in the letters of Robert Penn Warren, particularly his attempt to discover the identity of the very skillful and amusing writer Paula Newman Miner and her attempt to remain an enigma wrapped in fog living quietly on Cape Cod with her husband and her Loenbergers.
Title Page (Volume 9),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Title Page (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Circle
Robert Penn Warren Studies
No abstract provided.
Robert Penn Warren’S Emblematic Imagination In All The King’S Men,
2012
Indiana State University
Robert Penn Warren’S Emblematic Imagination In All The King’S Men, Thomas J. Derrick
Robert Penn Warren Studies
Robert Penn Warren’s use of a static image with an explanatory motto has not been traced to its roots in Renaissance emblems. Warren’s coy responses to interviewers about the historical basis of the Huey Long story were balanced by admissions of the literary influence of Elizabethan and Italian culture. Realistic and imaginative events provided material for the author’s deep and slowly developed technique of a dynamic relationship between image and idea. Three phases of development are noticed in Warren’s fiction. His preliminary experiment was seen in the 1943 novel, At Heaven’s Gate; his intermediate development came in his 1950 novel, …
