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Thomas Collection (Mss 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Thomas Collection (Mss 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 31. Manuscripts, letters, writings, etc., of the Thomas family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, including sermons and speeches of Frank Morehead Thomas, Methodist minister (1868-1921); and poems, essays and newspaper articles written by his mother, Elizabeth (Wright) Thomas (1842-1931). Full-text scans are available (Click on "Additional Files" below) for the Spanish-American War letters that Frank Thomas sent home to his family.


Calvert-Obenchain-Younglove Collection (Mss 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Calvert-Obenchain-Younglove Collection (Mss 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 30. Correspondence, diaries, writings, business papers, scrapbooks, clippings, genealogical notes, weather records, and photographs of the Calvert, Obenchain, and Younglove families of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Selected items from the collection can be viewed in full text by clicking on the "Additional Files" links below.


Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 1539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 1539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1539. Note from Corinne C. McCormack, Bowling Green, Kentucky, thanking Lida Calvert Obenchain (pen name "Eliza Calvert Hall") for the donation of her book, "A Book of Hand Woven Coverlets" to the Woman's Library, and Obenchain's reply.


Obenchain, Josephine (Stephenson), 1864-1953 (Sc 1536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Obenchain, Josephine (Stephenson), 1864-1953 (Sc 1536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1536. Whimsical paper written in dialect by Josephine Obenchain titled "History of the Kentucky Club of Dallas, Inc."


The Coping Strategies Of Highly Identified Sport Fans: The Importance Of Team Success On Tendencies To Utilize Proactive Pessimism, Frederick G. Grieve, Daniel L. Wann Nov 2007

The Coping Strategies Of Highly Identified Sport Fans: The Importance Of Team Success On Tendencies To Utilize Proactive Pessimism, Frederick G. Grieve, Daniel L. Wann

Psychology Faculty Publications

The authors investigated the use of proactive pessimism among college basketball fans. Rather than assess evaluations of an upcoming season as with previous work on proactive pessimism among fans, Grieve and Wann examined evaluations of a specific game.


Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 98. Project entitled "Basket Making in the Mammoth Cave Area." Interviews with basket makers concerning the history, process, marketing and distribution, social attitudes, historical patterns and aesthetics of basket making. Only transcriptions of the interviews were donated. Interviews were conducted by WKU students in Lynwood Montell's Folk Art and Technology class, Fall 1977; also includes one 1974 interview.


Holland, Daniel Edward, 1918-2009 (Sc 1518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Holland, Daniel Edward, 1918-2009 (Sc 1518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1518. Short note from Ed Holland, a cartoonist born in Guthrie, Kentucky, to a collector named Barton. The note, sent on Chicago Tribune stationery, explains Holland's tardiness in sending a requested cartoon.


Mccombs, Harold Spillman (Mss 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2007

Mccombs, Harold Spillman (Mss 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 165. Poetry volumes, 1918-1973, written by McCombs, a native of Edmonson County who taught in several Kentucky communities. Also includes oral history interview with his daughter, Doris Cloar, concerning her father's work, family history, and the November 5, 2005 tornado in Munfordville, Kentucky. Photographs of tornado damage included.


Raised In The Briar Patch: Misreading Warren’S Essay On Race, Leverett Butts Jan 2007

Raised In The Briar Patch: Misreading Warren’S Essay On Race, Leverett Butts

Robert Penn Warren Studies

As human beings, we are prone to all sorts of misreadings: of literary works, of others, of ourselves. This scholarly and personal visit to “The Briar Patch” reveals a younger Warren subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, advocating integration in a world that in the 1920’s was not (and some might say still isn’t) ready to accept full equality.


Robert Penn Warren In The 21st Century: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, James A. Grimshaw Jr. Jan 2007

Robert Penn Warren In The 21st Century: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, James A. Grimshaw Jr.

Robert Penn Warren Studies

Seven years into the 21st century, an informal look at the state of Warren studies reveals both reason for hope and for deep concern.


Observations On Robert Penn Warren’S “The Day Dr. Knox Did It”, James A. Perkins Jan 2007

Observations On Robert Penn Warren’S “The Day Dr. Knox Did It”, James A. Perkins

Robert Penn Warren Studies

“The Day Dr. Knox Did It” may be read as Warren’s artistic response to the suicide of Ernest Hemingway. The poem repeats an important motif from Warren’s second, unpublished and untitled novel, written in the 1930’s. It also contains some interesting correspondences—and equally important contrasts—to the work of Ernest Hemingway, especially the short story “Indian Camp.”


“The Deepest And Widest Metaphor For Life” Re-Visions Of Christian Faith In Robert Penn Warren’S Later Poetry, Nicole Camastra Jan 2007

“The Deepest And Widest Metaphor For Life” Re-Visions Of Christian Faith In Robert Penn Warren’S Later Poetry, Nicole Camastra

Robert Penn Warren Studies

While it would be foolish to assert that Warren was a committed Christian and unequivocal believer, a kind of tempered faith does exist in some of Warren’s poems from Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978. Manuscript revisions of “Amazing Grace in the Back Country” and “Heart of the Backlog” reveal Warren’s struggle to find faith, not his conviction of living in it. However, “Heart of Autumn,” the final poem in the volume, points to the conscious act of surrendering to the depth of theistic conflict in its preceding counterparts.


Cass Mastern, Josiah Royce, And The Envelope Of Responsibility, Joseph Wensink Jan 2007

Cass Mastern, Josiah Royce, And The Envelope Of Responsibility, Joseph Wensink

Robert Penn Warren Studies

In Warren’s All the King’s Men, Jack’s ultimate reconciliation does not come, as most readers see it, from learning to accept full responsibility for his actions where he formerly had none, but rather from his ability to define for himself, through his historical researches and creation of iconic “images,” a clear picture of the boundaries of his responsibility—its burdens as well as its limits. This envelope of responsibility is for Warren thoroughly historical—and envelope whose contours change through time, crucially dependent upon the narration of past events in the present. Jack’s “brass-bound idealism” is, despite his sarcasm, a quite sophisticated …


About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


About The Center (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

About The Center (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


About The Circle (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

About The Circle (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


About The Birthplace (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

About The Birthplace (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Contents (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

Contents (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Dedication Page (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

Dedication Page (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Title Page (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

Title Page (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Narrator Myopia In “Goodwood Comes Back”, Bill Mccarron, Paul Knoke Jan 2007

Narrator Myopia In “Goodwood Comes Back”, Bill Mccarron, Paul Knoke

Robert Penn Warren Studies

In “Goodwood Comes Back,” Warren creates an emotionally myopic narrator whose inability to see Goodwood for who he really is ironically points to the fact that, however short-lived, Goodwood’s personal comeback has been as triumphant as his foray into baseball. The contrast between Goodwood’s intimate knowledge of baseball and the narrator’s ignorance of the game sets the narrator up as a foil to Goodwood. His limitations only serve to highlight Goodwood’s accomplishments.


Editor’S Foreword (Volume 7), Mark D. Miller Jan 2007

Editor’S Foreword (Volume 7), Mark D. Miller

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


The Editing Of Jack Burden, Nathan Snow Jan 2007

The Editing Of Jack Burden, Nathan Snow

Robert Penn Warren Studies

In comparing Jack Burden as narrator in the 1946 version of All the King’s Men to Jack Burden as narrator in Noel Polk’s 2001 Restored Edition of the novel, the originally published Jack Burden emerges as the better narrator, and the 1946 version is the better for it. Warren’s original editor, Lambert Davis, deserves some of the credit for this improvement.


Selected Bibliography: Robert Penn Warren 2005-2007, Robin L. Condon Jan 2007

Selected Bibliography: Robert Penn Warren 2005-2007, Robin L. Condon

Robert Penn Warren Studies

A listing of two years’ worth of “The Good.”


Notes On Contributors (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2007

Notes On Contributors (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.