With the recent advent of digital word processors, physical representations of editorial practices have largely disappeared while a misconception about writing as an instantaneous or single-draft process has emerged. Compounding this issue is the prominence of literary studies that emphasize the works of renowned authors as products, rather than processes. My digital textual editing project, “A Selection from a Corrected Manuscript of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s novel The Yearling”, seeks to transcribe the manuscript of Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, The Yearling, which is marked with typed and hand-written revisions. Utilizing TEI-XML encoding, my …

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"I Am My Father's Daughter": Inheriting Environmental Attitudes In Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Courtney Green Apr 2020

"I Am My Father's Daughter": Inheriting Environmental Attitudes In Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Courtney Green

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The worlds of young adult dystopian fiction exude anxiety – anxiety about romantic love, family, freedom, politics, and, in many ways, the present state of the environment as our future. But where do children learn their attitudes regarding the natural world? And how do the children of narratives such as young adult dystopian fiction go about fixing the problems they see in the natural world as a result of the attitudes they were raised with? Do they even go about fixing anything at all? By looking closely at parental relationships and attitudes regarding nature in two of the most popular …

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Writings: Sandy Hill Sink, Edna Louise Saffy Mar 2018

Writings: Sandy Hill Sink, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Handwritten pages, Sandy Hill Sink and miscellaneous writings.

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Writings: Project Notes, Edna Louise Saffy Mar 2018

Writings: Project Notes, Edna Louise Saffy

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Handwritten project notes.

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Placards: Mkr Society, Edna Saffy And Grady Johnson Mar 2007

Placards: Mkr Society, Edna Saffy And Grady Johnson

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Name cards for Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society event designating the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Farm a National Historic Landmark, March 3, 2007.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Officers And Trustees Meeting June 23, 1989, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Jun 1989

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Officers And Trustees Meeting June 23, 1989, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society

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Agenda and meeting notes for the June 23, 1989 meeting of the officers and trustees. Dr. Saffy – Secretary, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling: A Study In The Rhetorical Effectiveness Of A Novel, Edna Louise Saffy Jan 1976

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling: A Study In The Rhetorical Effectiveness Of A Novel, Edna Louise Saffy

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In 1939 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Letters for her novel, The Yearling, and elected to the Academy of Arts and Letters. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote with a present concept of effectiveness. Her Theory of Composition as evinced by her personal papers, lecture notes, scrapbooks, newspaper articles, and correspondence housed in the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Collection at the University of Florida Library, was based up on the creation of a se4nse of reality, which she believed necessary in order to communicate beauty. Her theory incorporated the process of characterization, true-to-life depiction, universality, unity, the use of …

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Writings: Miscellaneous, 1963, Edna Louise Saffy Oct 1963

Writings: Miscellaneous, 1963, Edna Louise Saffy

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Various handwritten pages dated October 7– November 5, 1963.

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