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Knisley, Clyde Vernon, Jr., 1918-1945 (Mss 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Knisley, Clyde Vernon, Jr., 1918-1945 (Mss 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 84 and full text of selected letters (Click on "Additional Files" below). World War II letters of Greeneville, Tennessee native Clyde Vernon Knisley, Jr. written to his parents, documenting his fighter pilot training and his war experiences, 31 October 1941 to 15 January 1945, and diary kept in New Guinea, 25 February to 13 December 1943. Includes family's notification of his death, his awards, photographs, and related materials.
Boris Vian's American Movie: The Lost Authorship Of I Will Spit On Your Graves , M. Martin Guiney
Boris Vian's American Movie: The Lost Authorship Of I Will Spit On Your Graves , M. Martin Guiney
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Boris Vian (1920-1959) is today considered one of France's foremost avant-garde novelists of the twentieth century, but in his lifetime he was known to a wide audience as the author of one work: J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (I Will Spit on Your Graves), a pastiche of American hard-boiled fiction which he published in 1946 under the name of a fictitious Black American author, Vernon Sullivan. Vian died twelve years later of heart failure while viewing the film adaptation, which he had no part in producing. Vian-as-author "died" long before that fateful moment, however: first when he perpetrated a …
Review Of A Storm In Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy And Triumph On The Western Front, Michael F. Russo
Review Of A Storm In Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy And Triumph On The Western Front, Michael F. Russo
Faculty Publications
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Republicanism In France, Paul R, Hanson
Republicanism In France, Paul R, Hanson
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Hanson's contribution to the Encyclopedia of Enlightenment.
Frise Du Métro Parisien (Poem Of The Paris Subway), Jacques Jouet
Frise Du Métro Parisien (Poem Of The Paris Subway), Jacques Jouet
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Jacques Jouet has emerged over the past ten years as one of the most consistently intriguing voices in contemporary French literature, and one of the most versatile, as a glance at his bibliography will clearly show…
Andrée Chedid, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, And Martine Broda, Marie-Claire Bancquart
Andrée Chedid, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, And Martine Broda, Marie-Claire Bancquart
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
I would like to present three poets who are very different in age and writing style, Andrée Chedid, Vénus Khoury-Ghata and Martine Broda, in order to show the diversity of paths opened up by a women's poetry to which criticism and anthologies still give too small a place in France...
Underwood, Henry Morehead, 1893-1960 (Sc 1339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Henry Morehead, 1893-1960 (Sc 1339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1339. Letter, 30 October 1936, written by Underwood from the American Embassy in Berlin, Germany, to Henry Bradley, Sr. Underwood details his work as Foreign Buildings Inspector for the U.S. State Department in Europe, northern Africa and Turkey. Includes two unused post cards.
The Tardieu Moment: Andre Tardieus Failure As Prime Minister Of France, 1929-1930, Tim K. Fuchs
The Tardieu Moment: Andre Tardieus Failure As Prime Minister Of France, 1929-1930, Tim K. Fuchs
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis is concerned with André Tardieu, a French politician who had an outstanding career as a journalist and a politician. After the retirement of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré in 1929, it seemed like Tardieu would be the natural choice as his successor. He was the only leader on the Right. Tardieu formed his first cabinet in November 1929 and proposed an ambitious program for public works projects to improve the country’s infrastructure. Despite solid funding, Tardieu’s proposal never passed the Chamber of Deputies and his ministry fell in December 1930. The purpose of this thesis is to find the …