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Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 1779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1779. Letter, 11 October 1904, from author Alice Hegan Rice to the editor of Outlook magazine commenting on books that she enjoyed as a child and young adult.

Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 (Sc 1781), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1781. Paper titled "Bowling Green's Literary History," presented by WKU English teacher Frances Richards to the Samuel Davies Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 8 October 1938.

Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Sc 1790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1790. Research material, including news clippings and several letters, related to William Shakespeare Hays, a Kentucky musician and journalist. Also includes typescripts of poems written by Hays under the pseudonym Hayseed.

Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 1780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1780. Brief letter, 9 June 1917, from author Alice Hegan Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to a Miss Stearns complimenting her on the attractiveness of her book plate.

Boyd, George Robert, 1906-1993 (Sc 1759), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1759. Poetry by George Robert Boyd, a Simpson County, Kentucky native and educator; also, material related to the Boyd family.

Ecology And Spirit: Reflections On The Cit Seminar, Richard M. Magee

Presidential Seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

Professor Magee entered the CIT seminar in May of 2007 with some ideas about spirit and nature in American literature, and now, over a year later, he has, in the best traditions of philosophical enquiry, even more questions about how this complex relationship works. These new questions, however, have led to a significantly deeper and richer understanding of the texts I read, study, and teach, enlarging my intellectual horizons and sharpening my inquiries. His enriched scholarship has taken a number of forms, and in this report, hel briefly presents three specific and important examples.

Review: Healing Stones: A Sullivan Crisp Novel, Pat Borck

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the novel "Healing Stones: A Sullivan Crisp Novel," by Nancy Rue and Stephen Arterburn.

Review: Dad, Jackie, And Me, Candace Craig

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the children's book "Dad, Jackie, and Me," by Myron Uhlberg and illustrated by Colin Bootman.

Review: Cynthia's Attic: The Magic Medallion, Rebecca Ziegler

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the young adult novel "Cynthia’s Attic: The Magic Medallion," by Mary Cunningham.

Review: Pete The Cat: I Love My White Shoes, Vanessa Cowle

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the children's book "Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes," by Eric Litwin, and illustrated by James Dean.

Review: Life As We Knew It, Jessica De Maria

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the young adult novel "Life As We Knew It," by Susan Beth Pfeffer.

Review: Saturdays And Teacakes, Beth Pye

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the children's book "Saturdays and Teacakes," by Lester L. Laminack and illustrated by Chris Soentpiet.

Review: Orange Mint And Honey, Katrina Cooks

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the novel "Orange Mint and Honey," by Carleen Brice.

Review: The Sorta Sisters, Nikki Terrell

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the middle school book "The Sorta Sisters," by Adrian Fogelin.

Review: The Sugar Queen, Carol Malcolm

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the novel "The Sugar Queen," by Sarah Addison Allen.

Review: Flamingo's First Christmas, Tracy Walker

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the children's book "Flamingo's First Christmas," by Nancy Raines Day and illustrated by Fiona Robinson.

Creating A Space For Yal With Lgbt Content In Our Personal Reading: Creating A Place For Lgbt Students In Our Classrooms, Katherine Mason

Faculty Articles

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Review: The Body In Flannery O'Connor's Fiction: Computational Technique And Linguistic Voice, Leslie R. G. Bullington

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "The Body in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction: Computational Technique and Linguistic Voice," by Donald E. Hardy.

Review: The Adventures Of Short Stubbly Brownbeard, Andrea Thigpen

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the young adult book "The Adventures of Short Stubbly Brownbeard," by Alan J. Levine.

Thurber, Lucille (Kerr), 1900-1976 (Sc 1667), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1667. Copies of poems written by Lucille (Kerr) Thurber, a Bowling Green, Kentucky native. Several of the poems were apparently written while Thurber was a patient in an unnamed hospital in October 1930. Some biographical information also included.

Glasscock, Johnny (Fa 232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 232. Paper: "The Stories" written by Johnny Glasscock for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

On The Road From Melville To Postmodernism: The Case For Kerouac's Canonization., Jeffrey Warren King

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

With the publication of On the Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became a cultural phenomenon. Crowned the "King" of the Beat Generation, Kerouac embodied the restlessness of Cold War-era America. What no one realized at the time, however, was that the movement that he supposedly led went against Kerouac's own beliefs. Rather than rebellion, Kerouac wanted to write in a way that no one had written before. Heavily influenced by, among others, Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marcel Proust, Herman Melville, and, especially, James Joyce, Kerouac used the influence of his predecessors to formulate his own style of writing-spontaneous prose. The …

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian Novels As An Early Paradigm Of Racial Toleration, Ronnie W. Faulkner

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

The Martian novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (ERB) provide an early paradigm of racial toleration by displacing the heterogeneous race conflicts of the U. S. to an interplanetary location. There, the protagonist John Carter, representing Burroughs himself, introduces a level of racial acceptance and integration almost unheard of on the Earth of that era (the early twentieth century).

Pictures, Puzzles, And Missing Pieces: The Childlike Solution To Trauma In The Mature Novel, Natalie Couch

All Theses

Throughout literary history the child in literature has played multiple roles but was most frequently used as either a symbol for innocence or evil. In the case of three contemporary novels, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon; and M. T. Anderson's novel entitled The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party, the authors use the image of the precocious child to evoke thoughts about learning and education. These three novels invite their audiences to experience an almost anti-Bildungsroman …

Foot Held Against The Edge, Joseph Schumacher

All Theses

The poems included in this creative thesis demonstrate a growth in the author's personal development and interpretation of the world. This collection contains 27 poems, which use a variety of styles, themes, and structures to study alternative perspectives and to scrutinize cultural norms. The purpose of this creative thesis is to show the author's proficiency in this genre while also challenging readers to examine their own interpretations of the world around them.

'Barren, Silent, Godless': The Southern Novels Of Cormac Mccarthy, Melissa Davis

All Theses

Though best known for his Western works that have been read widely in the literary community and adapted to film, Cormac McCarthy is rarely discussed in terms of his contribution to Southern literature. However, his first four novels--The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, and Suttree--are set in the mountainous area around Knoxville, Tennessee. In this setting, McCarthy traces the change of the South and humanity from its agrarian, showing the violent and gothic nature of a modernizing society.
In considering the struggle between the old and new South as presented in the characters of The Orchard Keeper, the …

'Picking And Choosing': Marianne Moore's Strategic Revision Of The Romantic Sublime, Emily Atkins

All Theses

While many Modernist writers made conscious attempts to position themselves against an existing Romantic literary tradition, careful examinations reveal important overlaps and connections in theme, imagery and purpose. While Marianne Moore's work is perhaps farther away from a Romantic aesthetic than that of many of her contemporaries, a close examination of the body of her work reveals an engagement with many themes, motifs, and ideas that can be traced to her Romantic predecessors, a relationship that might best be described as 'picking and choosing,' to use her words. Many of her poems involve an appropriation and interrogation of the sublime, …

'Poe And Not Poe': A Study Of The Radio Adaptations Of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories, Ashley Davis

All Theses

This master's thesis analyzes four of Poe's short stories--'The Pit and the Pendulum,' 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' 'Metzengerstein,' and 'The Purloined Letter'-in comparison with their respective radio adaptations. Using the texts and Poe's essay 'The Philosophy of Composition' as guides for comparison, it is apparent that the respective changes made in each radio play veer greatly from Poe's original stories. Although the radio adaptations leave behind some traces of Poe's signature technique, they mostly remove that which was deemed too scary, too dark, or too overly philosophical for radio audiences. Therefore, the stories become at once comforting and disarming, at once …

On Sea-Goats, Chase Hart

All Theses

This thesis can be viewed as mediation between two processes of interpretation. Once process affirms freeplay and the continuation of the game. The other still wants a center or 'the reassuring foundation, the origin and the end of the game' as Derrida calls it. On a deep level, these poems try to realize themselves as inevitably subject to play, while also acknowledging themselves as trying to meaningfully interpret experience.

Why Katahdin Runs: A Play In Three Acts, Jaisey Bates

LMU Theses and Dissertations

For KATAHDIN, a Mixed Blood young woman who grew up in non Native group foster homes, running is her safest means of escaping her anger and her lack of family, roots, and memory.

This is the story of how Katahdin's ancestors help her find a home within, roots, and joy.