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Scott, Lucille, 1906-1989 (Sc 3739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2024

Scott, Lucille, 1906-1989 (Sc 3739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3739. Paper, “Folk Lore Found in the Writings of Eliza Calvert Hall” (pen name of Lida Calvert Obenchain), written by Western Kentucky State Teachers College student Lucille Scott.


Bibliography, Cheryl Hopson Jan 2023

Bibliography, Cheryl Hopson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Bibliography of publications by Cheryl Hopson.


Bibliography, Kristi Branham Jan 2023

Bibliography, Kristi Branham

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Bibliography of publications by Kristi Branham.


Triggered Emasculation In Southern Literature: Applying The Masculine Overcompensation Thesis, Delaney Holt Apr 2022

Triggered Emasculation In Southern Literature: Applying The Masculine Overcompensation Thesis, Delaney Holt

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Coined by Stanford University sociologists Dr. Rob Willer and Dr. Christabel L. Rogalin in 2005, the masculine overcompensation thesis asserts that a man will reciprocate challenges to his masculinity with his own intense display(s) of masculinity. This new thesis combined the preliminary research completed by Adler and Freud, offering a new perspective on masculinity. Alongside societal and psychological applications, the masculine overcompensation thesis can also be applied to fictional literary relationships, especially within the pages of three southern novels: Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle, Ron Rash’s One Foot in Eden, and Lewis Nordan’s The Sharpshooter Blues. A common thread of overcompensatory …


Ed Chapman: In Memoriam, Victor Strandberg Oct 2020

Ed Chapman: In Memoriam, Victor Strandberg

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Call For Papers 2021: Robert Penn Warren Circle, Robert Penn Warren Studies Oct 2020

Call For Papers 2021: Robert Penn Warren Circle, Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Race And Son-Of-A-Bitch-Ism In Robert Penn Warren’S All The King’S Men, Mark Miller Oct 2020

Race And Son-Of-A-Bitch-Ism In Robert Penn Warren’S All The King’S Men, Mark Miller

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Book Review: “One Or A Multitude?”: The Plural Of Us: Poetry And Community In Auden And Others, Noah Simon Jampol Oct 2020

Book Review: “One Or A Multitude?”: The Plural Of Us: Poetry And Community In Auden And Others, Noah Simon Jampol

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


“Pattern Of Meaning”: Symbolic Dynamism As A Formal Structure In The Waste Land And The Well Wrought Urn, Jane Forsyth Oct 2020

“Pattern Of Meaning”: Symbolic Dynamism As A Formal Structure In The Waste Land And The Well Wrought Urn, Jane Forsyth

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award, Robert Penn Warren Studies Oct 2020

Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award, Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Eleanor Clark Award, Robert Penn Warren Studies Oct 2020

Eleanor Clark Award, Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


"O Lost Moon Sisters" : Feminist Revisions In Diane Di Prima's Loba, Chelsea Megan Mathes Apr 2020

"O Lost Moon Sisters" : Feminist Revisions In Diane Di Prima's Loba, Chelsea Megan Mathes

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In her master work, Loba, Diane di Prima revises a variety of traditionally malecentered narratives from a feminist viewpoint in the long tradition of feminist revision that is a cornerstone of Second Wave Feminism. This thesis examines five of the revisions of Christian, Jewish, and Greek stories present in Loba: The Virgin Mary, Eve, Lilith, Helen of Troy, and Persephone. Di Prima revises these stories to include the full— physical, spiritual, and emotional—experience of the woman, often from her own point of view, to give the woman agency over her own story and subvert the woman-as-object tradition present in male-authored …


Motions Like Sleep In Robert Penn Warren’S “Lullaby”, Cameron Fontes Feb 2020

Motions Like Sleep In Robert Penn Warren’S “Lullaby”, Cameron Fontes

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.


“Where Inner And Outer Meet”: Dissociation And The Creative Process, Joseph Shoulders Feb 2020

“Where Inner And Outer Meet”: Dissociation And The Creative Process, Joseph Shoulders

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.


Correspondence With The Season Of Autumn, Seth Nevin Feb 2020

Correspondence With The Season Of Autumn, Seth Nevin

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.


Mary Ellen Miller: In Memoriam, Frank Steele Jan 2020

Mary Ellen Miller: In Memoriam, Frank Steele

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Editorial Preface, Joan Romano Shifflett Jan 2020

Editorial Preface, Joan Romano Shifflett

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


James A. Grimshaw, Jr.: In Memoriam, William Bedford Clark Jan 2020

James A. Grimshaw, Jr.: In Memoriam, William Bedford Clark

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Melville’S Battle-Pieces And Warren’S Wilderness (Eleanor Clark Award Winner, 2017), Mary Cuff Jan 2020

Melville’S Battle-Pieces And Warren’S Wilderness (Eleanor Clark Award Winner, 2017), Mary Cuff

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


The Sad Kitchen And Song Of Neon: Two Novellas, John Paul King Jul 2019

The Sad Kitchen And Song Of Neon: Two Novellas, John Paul King

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The Sad Kitchen, a work of magical realism, tells the story of a saintly woman named Helen. She opens an underground kitchen where people who feel guilty can come to be comforted and nurtured in the middle of the night. The story is, at its heart, a reflection on forgiveness. Song of Neon, also of the magical realist genre, is an existential work about a nurse named Avery and her husband, an owl house maker, named Saul. Their town, Milliard, is under a trance. Avery and Saul struggle with their respective identities in the quiet, vacuum the town has become.


Carleton, William Mckendree, 1845-1912 (Sc 3432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2019

Carleton, William Mckendree, 1845-1912 (Sc 3432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3432. Typescripted excerpt from Will Carleton’s narrative poem, “First Settler’s Story,” first published in 1881, as recited in March 1895 by Berta M. Morton.


Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 1881-1941 - Relating To (Sc 3425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2019

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 1881-1941 - Relating To (Sc 3425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3425. Notes by an unidentified individual of an interview of author Elizabeth Madox Roberts. Apparently sent to WKU student Paul Wharton from Roberts’ home city of Springfield, Kentucky, the notes recount her comments on her novels The Time of Man and He Sent Forth a Raven, and on the title of her most recent book, Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair.


Beeler, Andrew J., Jr., 1912-1998 (Sc 3418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2019

Beeler, Andrew J., Jr., 1912-1998 (Sc 3418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3418. Letters to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from A. J. Beeler, curriculum director for the Louisville, Kentucky public schools. A letter of 1 May 1946 encloses his list of recent Kentucky literature, and a letter of 3 January 1958 reports on his family and Christmas holiday. Includes his reviews of three books by Janice Holt Giles.


Stewart, Robert Lee, 1873-1963 (Sc 3415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2019

Stewart, Robert Lee, 1873-1963 (Sc 3415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3415. Letters, 30 May 1956 and 15 May 1957, to Mary Ellen Richards, Franklin, Kentucky, from Lee Stewart, Morehead, Kentucky. He encloses poems and song lyrics relating to Kentucky history, and comments on the Rowan County, Kentucky centennial celebrations. He also encloses his newspaper article about a Fayette County, Kentucky judge, legislator and poet.


Cox, Hal Z., 1883-1952 (Sc 3414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2019

Cox, Hal Z., 1883-1952 (Sc 3414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3414. Poem, “Old Kentucky,” written by Hodgenville, Kentucky native Hal Z. Cox in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of Kentucky statehood. Includes a 2011 newspaper article about Cox.


Kentucky Council Of Teachers Of English (Sc 3409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2019

Kentucky Council Of Teachers Of English (Sc 3409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3409. “Literary Landmarks of Kentucky,” a guidebook prepared by the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English. Organized alphabetically by county and thereafter by place name, the guide provides short entries about the literary personalities or literary works associated with that location.


Kentucky Poetry Day (Sc 3408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2019

Kentucky Poetry Day (Sc 3408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3408. Information for school administrators regarding programming for Kentucky Poetry Day. Includes proclamations by the Governor, suggested activities, and historical, biographical and bibliographical data on Kentucky poets.


Guthrie, Alfred Bertram, Jr., 1901-1991 (Sc 3395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2019

Guthrie, Alfred Bertram, Jr., 1901-1991 (Sc 3395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3395. Three autobiographical sketches by author A. B. Guthrie, Jr., written in response to requests. Also includes Guthrie’s article on the historical novel, written for the Fall 1954 Montana Magazine of History, and a review of his book of collected stories The Big It, with his comments, published in the Saturday Review, 25 February 1960.


Boyd, John Allen, 1938?-2017 (Sc 3394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2019

Boyd, John Allen, 1938?-2017 (Sc 3394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3394. Poems written by John Allen Boyd, a WKU graduate, teacher, and resident of Louisville, Kentucky. One collection is bound in pamphlet form and inscribed to WKU faculty member Frances Richards; others are included, with commentary, in a graduate project entitled “Experiments in Verse and Poetry” and written for an advanced composition class at WKU.


Spottswood, Henry Mercer, Iii,B. 1940 (Mss 665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2019

Spottswood, Henry Mercer, Iii,B. 1940 (Mss 665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 665. Correspondence with poet and author Jim Wayne Miller, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Chiefly letters to Spottswood which contain numerous attachments about Miller’s writing and speaking engagements. Also includes a small amount of correspondence from Miller’s wife, Mary Ellen Miller, and an unpublished book of poems by WKU students.