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0843: Katharine Rodier Collection, 1974-2011, Marshall University Special Collections
0843: Katharine Rodier Collection, 1974-2011, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
Personal writing, class notes, photograph, professional works, correspondences, professional materials, and mementos of Katharine Rodier during her collegiate career and career in the English Department of Marshall University.
0829: John Mckernan Collection, Marshall University Special Collections
0829: John Mckernan Collection, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
The John McKernan Collection contains mostly published materials that John McKernan collected related to his own poetry. There are a limited number of non-McKernan publications that he saved.
0777: Kenneth Hechler Papers, 1958-1976, Marshall University Special Collections
0777: Kenneth Hechler Papers, 1958-1976, Marshall University Special Collections
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Personal family papers, photographs and correspondence. Includes research material for Hechler's book, "The Bridge at Remagen". Also includes campaign material for Congressional races, West Virginia Secretary of State and a bid for the governorship of West Virginia.
The Social Construction Of Authorship: An Investigation Of Subjectivity And Rhetorical Authority In The College Writing Classroom, Johannah Rodgers
The Social Construction Of Authorship: An Investigation Of Subjectivity And Rhetorical Authority In The College Writing Classroom, Johannah Rodgers
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Although we use the term author on a daily basis to refer to certain individuals, bodies of work, and systems of ideas, as Michel Foucault and other critics have pointed out, attempting to answer the question “What is an Author?” is by no means a simple proposition. And, starting from the position that there is no single, or definitive answer to this complex question, this dissertation seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion of the genealogy of authorship by investigating the ways in which conceptions of the author have informed models of the writing subject in the field of rhetoric …
Writing The Lives Of Others: The Veterans Project, Sandra Young
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.
0702: Kenneth Hechler Collection, Book Correspondence, 1954-1998, Marshall University Special Collections
0702: Kenneth Hechler Collection, Book Correspondence, 1954-1998, Marshall University Special Collections
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Letters to Cecil Roberts of Fort Worth, Texas about Hechler's book, "The Bridge at Remagen"; includes a letter from L. E. Engeman, Col. U. S. Army ret., who commanded the 14th Tank Battalion at the taking of the bridge.
0426: Robert P. Alexander Papers, 1981-1984, Marshall University Special Collections
0426: Robert P. Alexander Papers, 1981-1984, Marshall University Special Collections
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Working papers, correspondence, reports, memoranda, contracts, etc. related to Dr. Alexander's term on the Huntington, West Virginia City Council; includes a one-year term as mayor.
0394: Nancy Jane Tyson Papers, 1981, Marshall University Special Collections
0394: Nancy Jane Tyson Papers, 1981, Marshall University Special Collections
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Drafts and corrected copy for Tyson’s book, 'Eugene Aram: literary history and typology of the scholar-criminal,' published by Archon Press, 1983.