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Performance Attitudes Toward Read Or Imagined Events In “Scenes Of Passion And Despair” By Joyce Carol Oates, Bruce Creed Jul 1975

Performance Attitudes Toward Read Or Imagined Events In “Scenes Of Passion And Despair” By Joyce Carol Oates, Bruce Creed

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The object of this study is to examine the diction of “Scenes of Passion and Despair” by Joyce Carol Oates in an attempt to discover performative attitudes for the interpreter. The discussion centers on the theme of illusion and reality as it manifests itself in the story. Because this theme superimposes itself on diction, it becomes necessary to examine words in detail, searching for the manner in which words are used to create a certain degree of reality for each character of the story. The discovery of these realities reassures the interpreter that his is a faithful rendering of one …


Ua1b1 11th All Star Concert Series, Western Kentucky University Jan 1930

Ua1b1 11th All Star Concert Series, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Advertisement for the 11th all star concert series hosted by WKU in 1929-1930. Features singers, musicians and lecturers:

  • Estelle Gray-Llevinne
  • United States Army Band
  • Berger-Steindel-Aster Trio
  • Gloria Randolph
  • Smallman a Capella Choir
  • Ratan Devi
  • Chandra Dharma Sena Gooneratne
  • Henri Scott
  • Charles Boggs
  • Melvena Passmore
  • Festival Opera Company
  • Howard Carman
  • William Phillips
  • Rhys Morgan