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Rice Collection (Mss 47), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rice Collection (Mss 47), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 47. Includes letters; business papers and contracts; research materials and notes; original and typed manuscripts of poems, short stories and books; photographs; cartoons; book reviews and clippings; and scrapbooks of Cale Young Rice (1872-1943), poet and author, and of Alice Hegan Rice (1870-1942), author, of Louisville, Kentucky.
Allen D. Breck Award Winner: Nothing’S Paradox In Donne’S “Negative Love” And “A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy’S Day”, Sean Ford
Quidditas
John Donne's complicated use of paradox is nowhere more inviting than in the grammatical and conceptual use of the word "nothing," especially when Donne chooses to give this noun the quality of substance and presence, rather than using it to denote the absence of anything. Two poems in particular, from the Songs and Sonets, give affirmative existence to a nothing in order to make distinct arguments regard- ing the status of an existing thing. Both “Negative Love” and “A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy’s Day, being the shortest day” rely on this paradox to give a precise definition of the …
Grinstead, James David, 1894-1976 (Sc 1371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grinstead, James David, 1894-1976 (Sc 1371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1371. Letters written by James D. Grinstead, Barren County, Kentucky, to his family following his induction into the armed forces. All letters were penned from U.S. military camps. Also family letters, 1920.
Julius Lester, Karen Gevirtz
Julius Lester, Karen Gevirtz
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
This article is reprinted from the original reference work, the Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Oxford University Press, 1997). It describes the life and career of Julius Lester.
Melba Boyd, Karen Gevirtz
Melba Boyd, Karen Gevirtz
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
This article has been reprinted in a revised edition of the Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Oxford University Press, 1997). It describes the life and career of Melba Boyd.