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News release announces that James Scott, a senior research engineer in the Aerospace Mechanics Division of UD's Research Institute has been awarded the 1987 Wohlleben/Hochwalt Outstanding Professional Research Award.

Flyer News, Vol. 35, No. 19 (Dec. 3, 1987), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Emily Dickinson: 'Such A Little Figure … Visions Vast And Small', Diane P. Freedman

University of Dayton Review

I have two partially contradictory suppositions in this paper. One is that critical objectivity is a myth; all critics unavoidably project their identity and needs onto that of an author and her text. In the best of the Transcendental tradition. the subject and object become fused. On the other hand. while I agree with reader-response critic Patrocinio Schweickart that all "reading is necessarily subjective" and with Jonathan Culler that "the meaning of a work is the experience of a reader" (qtd. in Schweickart). I would have you believe that there is more substantiation for my reading of Dickinson than there …

Dickinson Against The Sublime, Gary Lee Stonum

University of Dayton Review

Dickinson's poetry both continues and revises what we have come to call the romantic sublime, a literary mode first effectively theorized by Kant and then practiced in rather diverse forms by a number of English and American writers. The variety, variability, and conceptual elusiveness of the sublime are considerably more evident in literary history than its identity, but for the sake of brevity let me exaggerate the extent to which a distinctly romantic sublime operates according to stable precepts and forms a reasonably coherent poetic tradition. Viewed from the schematic perspective this simplification affords, Dickinson's work perpetuates the romantic sublime …

Is Immortality True? Conflict And Irresolution In The Life And Writings Of Emily Dickinson, Robert L. Lair

University of Dayton Review

In the spring of 1882, only four years before she was fatally stricken with nephritis, shaken by the death of the Reverend Charles Wadsworth and the seemingly mortal illness of her admired Judge Otis Lord, Emily Dickinson wrote urgently to Washington Gladden, the Springfield pastor whose liberal sermons and essays she had admired. "Is immortality true?" she asked with poignant desperation. Gladden's response, as confident and consoling as he had intended it to be, failed to bolster her soul, troubled as it was by doubt and bewilderment. In fact, a year later she would write again, this time to Charles …

Emily Dickinson: The Androgynous Temper, Michele F. Cooper

University of Dayton Review

This paper argues that Emily Dickinson was an androgynous woman in the nature and complexion of her psyche, and that the brilliant themes and images of her lyrics often reflect her androgynous temper. What does it mean to speak of androgyny in poetry? Perhaps a bit of defining will be helpful.

Queen Of Calvary: Spirituality In Emily Dickinson, Nadean Bishop

University of Dayton Review

Many books and essays on Emily Dickinson's poetry have appeared in the last five years, and each approaches the question of spirituality divergently depending on the author's dominant focus. Barbara Mossberg deals with Dickinson as dutiful and rebellious daughter; Jane Eberwein concentrates on strategies of limitation; Sandra Gilbert rehabilitates domesticity; and Vivian R. Pollak analyzes the anxiety of gender. The critics agree, however, that spirituality holds a central place in Dickinson's poetry.

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University of Dayton Review

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“Chastisement Of Beauty”: A Mode Of The Religious Sublime In Dickinson’S Poetry, Douglas Leonard

University of Dayton Review

Emily Dickinson shared with other Romantic poets, American and European, the intuition that the age of reason had run its course and had failed to bring the hoped-for illumination and order. In the new century, as the focus turned toward self, the feelings of the individual tended to replace authority and schema in the measure of truth and beauty. From the beginning, Dickinson's poetry reflects the poet's awareness that emotional sensations occur in various dimensions within the consciousness, so that joy and grief, for example, or exultation and fear, may combine in single complex reactions. The most intense emotions, in …

Type Of The Modern, Judson Jerome

University of Dayton Review

What is the difference between a nightingale and a fly? The answer tells us much about the meaning of twentieth century experience. Though Keats wrote to a grasshopper as well as to a nightingale, it is inconceivable that he might have written a poem such as Emily Dickinson's "I heard a fly buzz when I died" (or "The Flea," by John Donne, whose sensibility was much closer to the modem temper in many ways than was that of Keats). Certainly he would not have written a deliberate celebration of a machine, as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Stepen Spender did …

The Necessary Strategy Of Renunciation: The Triumph Of Emily Dickinson And The Fall Of Sylvia Plath, Garry M. Leonard

University of Dayton Review

"In writing at all," Adrienne Rich notes, "women have often felt in danger of losing their status as women" Emily Dickinson knew this fear, and her solution, applied with amazing consistency throughout her poetry, was to consciously withdraw from the exalted station of "womanhood" as she found it defined by church, family, and state. Far from robbing her of an identity, this renunciation allowed her to discover the quality and parameter of her own mind and exempted her from having to pose as what others believed a woman should be.

Immortality And The Shape Of A Poet’S Career, Jane Donahue Eberwein

University of Dayton Review

Someone confronted me once with an all-purpose generalization he had learned somewhere about poetry: all poems are about death. I, for my part, had supposed that many of them focused on life-in all its dizzying variety. To some extent, however, I had to admit that he had some of the greatest poets on his side. Many have claimed that poems exist as their creators' assault on their own mortality. Poems may be about any number of topics, but all serve a similar purpose. They defy death. "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments/ Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme," Shakespeare …

Block Talk (December 1987), University Of Dayton. Student Development

Block Talk

• Christmas on Campus
• Holiday safety tips
• House decorating contest and safe holiday decorations
• Feature on Jan Lepore-Jentleson of the city of Dayton's inspection services
• Greek happenings, events calendar, decorating contest
• Mass in McGinnis Center 9 p.m. Sundays with Father Jerry Chinchar, S.M.

Insert on holiday safety

Emily Dickinson And The Psychoanalyst, Stephen L. Tanner

University of Dayton Review

Emily Dickinson appears tailor-made for the psychoanalytical method of biography and criticism. The childhood shaped by a dominating father, the later seclusion from society and habit of dressing in white, the penetrating self-observation and ambiguous sexuality revealed in the poems and letters—all these cry out for psychoanalytical explanation. Moreover, she had the intelligence, articulateness, and capacity for fantasy that make her, as the psychiatrist John Cody remarks, "the psychoanalysand par excellence."

Form, Process, And The Dialectic Of Self-Construction: “After Great Pain” And Three Modern Poems, Linda J. Taylor

University of Dayton Review

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" (#341) is one of Emily Dickinson's most frequently anthologized and explicated poems and, according to one critic, a work that many would consider "her supreme achievement." Yet, the considerable body of criticism that surrounds it often fails to recognize and elucidate the complexity of its form as well as the truth and profundity of its content. Also, in "After Great Pain" and other poems, Dickinson exhibits traits shared by great works of three of the acknowledged and representative "greats" of modern poetry in English: T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, and Wallace Stevens. Among …

A Note From The Guest Editor To Emily Dickinson: A Few Epistles From The World, Herbert Woodward Martin

University of Dayton Review

Dear Miss Dickinson: I have often wondered what the results would have been if you had sent your letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson instead of Thomas Wentworth Higginson? But that is speculative history and that is not my intended purpose here. I come bringing you this packet of fourteen essays. They are letters to you from the world. These are not the only ones to result from the centennial of your passing. There is a wealth of other essays, critical books, as well as significant biographies which attest to your faith in your work and to your importance to the …

Emily Dickinson As The Queen Of Sheba And The Approach To Solomon Master, Daniel Hughes

University of Dayton Review

Crane asserts that, though Dickinson's poetry lives, to grasp the full harvest she gathered requires from her readers more than wit or love; it demands a recognition of an ultimate truth, "Some reconcilement of remotest mind" to which her poems aspire but which they do not attain. Lacking such faith, her poems, for all their splendors, leave the wealthy places of their origins, Ormus and Ophir, "rubyless" and "chill." Her poems, for herself and for her reader, can lead to sorrow and a grave without immortality.

The Psychic Development Of A Woman Writer, Carol L. Cook

University of Dayton Review

Emily Dickinson is a foremother of women writers. However, women searching for a model of independence have not recognized the power and knowledge of Emily Dickinson and consequently have ignored a primary source of sustenance. In "Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson," Adrienne Rich remarks: "I have been surprised at how narrowly her work, still, is known by women who are writing poetry, how much her legend has gotten in the way of her being re-possessed, as a source and a foremother" (59). Dickinson preserved her struggle for mental independence in her poetry, and this record serves as …

'What Fresh Hell …?' Cultus In Dickinson Garland, Piaf And Weil, James M. Hughes

University of Dayton Review

Dorothy Parker created a heroine who responded to the ringing of her doorbell, "What fresh hell can this be?" In a sense, Parker's question suggests the cultic appeal of women otherwise as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Judy Garland, Edith Piaf, and Simone Weil. Indeed, Dickinson's epigrammatic couplet, "Parting is all we know of heaven,/ And all we need of hell," somehow describes the dilemma all four women confronted for their variously "admiring Bog[s]." In 1938, Simone Weil wrote a letter to Georges Bernanos on the occasion of the latter's "Les Grandes Cimetieres Sous la Lune," an account of France's offensive …

Bach Society To Present Two Performances Of Christmas Concert

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News release announces that the Dayton Bach Society will present two performances of its traditional Christmas concert.

Vytis, Volume 73, Issue 10 (December 1987), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

Upcoming: Ud Students Share Christmas Spirit

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Media tip sheet announces upcoming events at UD including a neighborhood poinsettia delivery and Christmas on Campus with theme "Share in the Dream."

Flyer News, Vol. 35, No. 18 (Nov. 23, 1987), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Ud Invites Public To Free Christmas Concerts

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News release announces two holiday concerts at the University of Datyon: George Zimmerman's seventh annual old-fashioned Christmas carol sing and the University Gospel Choir's winter songfest.

Flyer News, Vol. 35, No. 17 (Nov. 19, 1987), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Violinist Performs In Ud Arts Series

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News release announces that violinist Benny Kim will perform as a part of the University of Dayton Arts Series.

Flyer News, Vol. 35, No. 16 (Nov. 16, 1987), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Flyer News, Vol. 35, No. 15 (Nov. 12, 1987), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Flyer News, Vol. 35, No. 14 (Nov. 9, 1987), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Ud Professor Elected President Of National Organization

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News release announces that Sister Angela Ann Zukowski, M.H.S.H., has been elected president of Unda-USA, the National Catholic Association for Communicators.