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Review Of The War That Used Up Words: American Writers And The First World War, By Hazel Hutchison, Ian A. Isherwood
Review Of The War That Used Up Words: American Writers And The First World War, By Hazel Hutchison, Ian A. Isherwood
Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty Publications
There is a vast array of scholarship on the literature of the First World War, much of it concerning British authors. When American war literature is considered, it is usually the so-called “Lost Generation” writers of the 1920s and 1930s. If the war had a significant effect upon American literature, it is argued, then it served as a trope for some of the great writers of the 1920s—Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner—who wrote of living in its generational shadow in the following decades of so-called peace.
Hazel Hutchison’s book is a corrective to the many assumptions about …
0849: Guyandotte Poetry Society Papers, 1989-2018, Marshall University Special Collections
0849: Guyandotte Poetry Society Papers, 1989-2018, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collections contains the professional documents of the Guyandotte Poetry Society. The contents in this collection span from 1989 to 2018. The collection includes correspondence, directions to meetings, directories of poets who participated in the Society, and poems that were submitted and workshopped. The materials in this collection document the various writers who either served as reviewers or submitted poetry for review. This list of writers is included following the list of folders and their contents.
0820: Kenneth Hechler Papers, 1958-1976, Marshall University Special Collections
0820: Kenneth Hechler Papers, 1958-1976, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection is composed of papers related to Ken Hechler's careers in teaching and writing as well as his personal life. Some political materials are represented as well as artifacts and other memorabilia.
La Dramatisation De L’Écriture Chez Sony Labou Tansi, Georges Ngal
La Dramatisation De L’Écriture Chez Sony Labou Tansi, Georges Ngal
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
As an author always articulates his writing with idioms that reflect a specific time period and a given social group, Sony Labou Tansi talks about “tropicalité”, and gives himself the goal to create multiple “tropicalités”.
0611: Virginius R. Moss Papers, 1856-1903, Marshall University Special Collections
0611: Virginius R. Moss Papers, 1856-1903, Marshall University Special Collections
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Cabell Co., West Virginia physician. Bulk of collection consists of receipts for taxes and notes; family and other correspondence; ephemera includes bill of fare from the Greenbrier resort hotel.
0257: Martha Elizabeth Carpenter Miller Collection, 1898-1962, Marshall University Special Collections
0257: Martha Elizabeth Carpenter Miller Collection, 1898-1962, Marshall University Special Collections
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The majority of this collection consists of the handwritten and typed poetry of Martha Carpenter Miller. Many of the poems underwent multiple edits and rewrites, and her notes and corrections to her poems are included in this collection. The collection spans the years 1898-1962, with the bulk of the material from the 1930s-1950s. Miller wrote extensively, and the collection includes poems and partial poems, ideas, and short verses written on scrap paper, envelopes, paper towels, carboard, postcards, and various other types of paper. At the time of processing, original order was largely unknown. In organizing the materials, there were occasionally …