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Magic At The Crossroads: The Rise Of The Video Essay, Morganne Tinsley August Jan 2016

Magic At The Crossroads: The Rise Of The Video Essay, Morganne Tinsley August

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the birth, rise in popularity, and evolution of the video essay, a subgenre of the essay found recently in online literary journals. Chapter one provides a brief history of the alphabetic essay as it expands to include photo essays, audio essays, and essay-films. The second chapter outlines the history of the online literary journal and John Bresland’s role in the introduction of the video essay as it appears in online journals. Chapter three contains an examination of the way image, text, and sound function in video essays and the tools and strategies essayists are using to create …


Scribblescholar Was Here: Confessional Notes Of A Vandal Academic, Clay Shields Jan 2015

Scribblescholar Was Here: Confessional Notes Of A Vandal Academic, Clay Shields

Theses and Dissertations--English

As a (former) vandal-punk in the academy, I often fear succumbing to Ivory Tower Stockholm syndrome. The identities I perform, vandal-punk and scholar, ideologically clash to the point that they often feel irreconcilable. By codemeshing the high-low discourses associated with these adopted cultures, I attempt to disrupt any hierarchal privileging of either, instead searching for a way to live with and harness both.


The Editorial Double Vision Of Maxwell Perkins: How The Editor Of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, And Wolfe Plied His Craft, Rachel F. Van Hart Jan 2015

The Editorial Double Vision Of Maxwell Perkins: How The Editor Of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, And Wolfe Plied His Craft, Rachel F. Van Hart

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Scholars and literary enthusiasts have struggled for decades to account for editor Maxwell Perkins’s unparalleled success in facilitating the careers of many of the early twentieth century’s most enduring and profitable writers, among them F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. This study seeks to penetrate that mystery by dissecting Perkins’s editorial practice and examining how he navigated the competing tensions between commercial success and aesthetic integrity in various circumstances. At play in the construction of his literary legacy are prevailing perceptions of authorship, complex interpersonal relationships, and the inherent battle between art and commerce. Focusing on his day-to-day …


Wil Linkugel And Gifting 101, Mari Boor Tonn Jan 2012

Wil Linkugel And Gifting 101, Mari Boor Tonn

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Wil Linkugel was many things, among them a fabled storyteller. Given the chance to get in the last word—a comment I trust would yield his winning, wide grin—I return his favor by beginning with my own Wil origins tale. With his beloved wit, he might dryly point out that I am a starring fıgure in places in the Wil Linkugel narrative. But, in truth, he plays both the leading roles and a vast cast of supporting ones throughout—in the truest meanings of such words. With a dutiful spoiler alert, the basic plotline of the brief essay that follows is this: …


Ua68/6/2/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Student Organizations Western Writers, Wku Archives Dec 2010

Ua68/6/2/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Student Organizations Western Writers, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records of the Western Writers and issues of Voices magazine.


Reviewing The Author-Function In The Age Of Wikipedia, Amit Ray, Erhardt Graeff Jan 2008

Reviewing The Author-Function In The Age Of Wikipedia, Amit Ray, Erhardt Graeff

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In "Reviewing the Author-Function in the Age of Wikipedia," Amit Ray and Erhardt Graeff examine how wiki technology challenges traditional concepts of authorship and authority in knowledge production. The authors build on poststructuralist theory, particularly Roland Barthes's "Death of the Author" and Michel Foucault's concept of the "author-function," to analyze how wikis destabilize individual authorship in favor of collaborative, community-driven content creation.

The essay argues that wikis represent a fundamental shift from the Romantic notion of the solitary author-genius to what they term the "wiki writing process"—a dynamic system where traditional roles of reader, writer, and editor blur into a …


Writing The Lives Of Others: The Veterans Project, Sandra Young Jan 2003

Writing The Lives Of Others: The Veterans Project, Sandra Young

English Faculty Publications

This essay describes an advanced composition course in which the students studied the ethics, politics, history, and rhetorical strategies involved in writing the lives of others. The heart of the course was a service-learning project that introduced college juniors and seniors to veterans of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The students interviewed, wrote brief biographies, and transcribed the wartime stories of a group of veterans from a local American Legion post and its women’s auxiliary. The stories were collected in a volume made available to local American Legion posts, veterans hospitals, and libraries in Connecticut.


Women Writing Auto/Biography: Anna Banti’S Artemisia And Eunice Lipton’S Alias Olympia, Claire Marrone Jan 2001

Women Writing Auto/Biography: Anna Banti’S Artemisia And Eunice Lipton’S Alias Olympia, Claire Marrone

Languages Faculty Publications

Neat definitions of biographical and autobiographical writing have been challenged in the twentieth century. This essay offers a comparative study of two texts which may be classified as autobiography or biography or both, and which, because of their blurred generic boundaries, bring to light several theoretical questions about life writing.


1998 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1998

1998 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.


Breaking Into Print With Feature Articles, Ralph L. Corrigan Nov 1993

Breaking Into Print With Feature Articles, Ralph L. Corrigan

English Faculty Publications

If you are anxious to get started as a published writer but don't know where to begin, feature articles for newspapers provide an ideal way to break into print.


1989 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1989

1989 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.


1988 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1988

1988 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.


1987 Ray Family Papers (05/13/1987), Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1987

1987 Ray Family Papers (05/13/1987), Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.


1987 Ray Family Papers (05-13-1987), Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1987

1987 Ray Family Papers (05-13-1987), Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

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1987 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1987

1987 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.


1986 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1986

1986 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.


1986 Ray Family Papers (08-28-1986), Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1986

1986 Ray Family Papers (08-28-1986), Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

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1986 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1986

1986 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.


1985 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1985

1985 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.


1985 Ray Family Papers (Feb.-Oct.), Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1985

1985 Ray Family Papers (Feb.-Oct.), Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

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1984 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1984

1984 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

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1983 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1983

1983 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

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1982 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1982

1982 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

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1981 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1981

1981 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

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1980 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1980

1980 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

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1979 Ray Family Papers (06/11/1979), Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1979

1979 Ray Family Papers (06/11/1979), Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

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1979 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1979

1979 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.


1978 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1978

1978 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.


1977 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1977

1977 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.


1976 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections Jan 1976

1976 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.