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From Contemplation to Action: The Transformation of Female Interiority in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel
No full textWhile nineteenth-century novelists’ representations of interiority have often been studied as either successors to the Romantics or as predecessors of the Modernists, a comparison of Augustine’s discussion of memory in Book 10 of his Confessions and Fanny Price’s contemplation of the same topic in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park reveals striking similarities. This example illustrates that nineteenth-century novelists’ conceptions of interiority can be considered within a longer tradition of secular and spiritual writings. I have chosen four novels as representative of how nineteenth-century novelists defined particularly the role of contemplation in everyday life: Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park (1814), Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847), and Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit (1857). These novels illustrate the development of a female protagonist whose values are rooted in the principles of Augustinian self-awareness. If these portrayals of contemplative life in the nineteenth-century British novel have a common goal, it is to show how contemplation and solitude can serve the purpose of reorienting the self to a higher ideal. This understanding of the self and experience is then essentially a secularized form of religious contemplation, a reorientation which combines contemplation of the divine with a deeper understanding of self in order to channel that understanding into an active life of benevolent service to others. I have chosen novels that feature female heroines because women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were often viewed as susceptible to indolence and inactivity. However, the women in these novels who are denied the public or active life of their male counterparts also have a unique opportunity for introspection and contemplation. They have poetic sensibilities, without the same outlets of expression. While this initially serves as a validation of ordinary experience and the hidden impact of a quiet life, contemplative heroines increasingly conflict with the modern reality of communal disintegration and secularization, a conflict that results in the contemplative ideal being reimagined and reoriented as the nineteenth century progresses
Turnover Intention in the Accounting Field: An Examination of Key Drivers and the Role of Job and Career Satisfaction in Reducing Turnover
No full textAccountants play crucial roles in organizations by providing reliable and relevant information to information users. However, high employee turnover among accountants has been a persistent issue in the U.S., adversely affecting productivity and organizational performance. Although prior research has established that job satisfaction reduces employee turnover across various industries, the examination of the roles of job satisfaction along with career satisfaction
in the accounting field remains limited. Using social exchange theory, the study examined the relationships between job satisfaction, its antecedent variables (organizational ethical climate, perceived supervisor support, and organizational learning culture), career satisfaction, and the outcome variable (turnover intention). This quantitative, cross-sectional study employed a Qualtrics survey and collected 176 valid responses from accountants working in the public and
private sectors, including full-time and part-time positions, in the United States. The hypotheses were tested using the Structural Equation Modeling method. The results revealed a significant positive relationship between perceived supervisor support and job satisfaction, as well as a strong negative relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention. The results showed that job satisfaction fully mediated the relationship between perceived supervisor support and turnover intention. The study also found that job satisfaction is positively associated with career satisfaction. By incorporating job satisfaction and career satisfaction into the study, this research contributes to the existing accounting literature and provides practical recommendations for managers seeking to effectively retain accountants
University of Dallas Faculty Senate
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<---Please open FindingAid .pdf under "FILES" to see full collection details To request any materials from this collection please email: [email protected] (Manuscript Collection restricted to authorized faculty and board members of the University of Dallas.
Digital Collection is restricted to authorized faculty and board members of the University of Dallas with access to BrightSpace.)
HISTORICAL NOTE
The University of Dallas is a private Catholic university in Irving, Texas, United States. Established in 1956, it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
The university comprises three academic units: the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, the Constantin College of Liberal Arts, and the Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business. Dallas offers several master's degree programs and a doctoral degree program with three concentrations. As of 2017, there were 136 full-time faculty and 102 part-time faculty. Faculty Senate is comprised of 24 members of faculty and meets on a yearly or bi-yearly basis to discuss university needs, issues and successes.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
The collection comprises minutes of the Faculty Senate Meetings from 1968 through the present. The manuscript collection is through 2021 and the digital collection is 1995-present.
ARRANGEMENT DESCRIPTION
The collection of 2 boxes (40 files) is arranged in a single series by date. Each file is identified by title, date.
Digital files (16+) are also arranged and identified by date.
SEPARATED MATERIALS
Digital files from 1994-2025 are found on UDallas BrightSpace, restricted to authorized users.
LOCATION OF ORIGINALS
Original analog minutes are located in this collection in the UD Archives & Special Collections, as well as digitally in UDallas Brightspace.
ACCESS STATEMENT
Manuscript Collection restricted to authorized faculty and board members of the University of Dallas.
Digital Collection is restricted to authorized faculty and board members of the University of Dallas with access to BrightSpace
A Literature of Outsiders: Mark Twain's Search for Belonging
No full textMark Twain’s reputation as a quintessential American is perhaps best characterized by his life-long identity as an outsider. Regardless of his chosen homes, professions, or social values, Twain frequently saw himself as looking in from the outside, as separate from realities he both desired and already possessed. This critical stance shaped his worldview as well as his literary imagination. Consequently, his narratives often feature characters who tell their stories from the margins of society or the outskirts of natural homelands. Reading Twain through this lens reveals his sustained focus on the relationship between an outcast people and the persistent problem of American belonging.
We can find evidence of what Twain saw as the unique conditions of not belonging in America within works such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Diaries of Adam and Eve, and No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger. These narratives present recurring patterns of the outsider’s gradual movement away from an ethic of separation (“freedom from”) and toward an ethic of co-being (“freedom to”). This trajectory not only emphasizes America’s crisis of sociality, but also illuminates the basic phenomenology of belonging: its motivating deficiency, its paradoxical and transient nature, and the mysterious encounter with an irreconcilable absence. These details emerge as Twain’s outsiders explore phenomena such as the traditional roots of family and community, the archetypal condition of shared exile, and the psychological means of Self-actualization, and undergo epistemological journeys through which they rediscover how to be known, to know the Other, and to know the Self.
Ultimately, Twain’s literature of outsiders demonstrates that belonging is not a static condition but a dynamic, creative act that demands attention to and communal engagement with the essential metaxy of life—the tension of living “in-between” the extremes of unity and alienation. For Twain, narrative creation enables one to confront absence and embrace it as a space of possibility rather than a nihilistic abyss, which reframes the shared status of outsider as a source of creative potential, one which can help individuals restore their will to belong and participate in the on-going construction of their collective home
McDermott Lectures
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Series title, dates, description
Series 1: 1970s Eugene McDermott Lectureship Establishment
Series 2: 1970s-1980s Margaret McDermott
Series 3: 1975 Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Series 4: 1976 Hans Georg Gadamer
Series 5: 1977 Malcolm Muggeridge
Series 6: 1978 Christian Norberg Schulz and Edmund Bacon
Series 7: 1978 Michael Platt
Series 8: 1979 Mortimer Adler
Series 9: Colloquium 1979: Herbert Marshall McLuhan, Hans Georg Gadamer, Malcolm
Muggeridge, Jacques Barzun, Christian Norberg-Shulz, Mortimer Adler
Series 10: 1970-2008 McDermott Committee
Series 11: 1980 Shakespeare Colloquium: Erich Heller, Roy Battenhouse, Peter Phialas, O.B.
Hardison, Jr., Jonathan Miller
Series 12: 1981 Paul Ricoeur
Series 13: 1982 J. Carter Brown
Series 14: 1983 Paul Weiss; Stanley I Jaki
Series 15: 1984 Seymour Slive; Harvey Mansfield; Father Benedict Monostori, Mark Shepard Jr.
Series 16: 1985 Haggarty Science Center: Stephen Toulmin, Steven Weinberg, Fredrick Sietz, Steven Jay Gould, Douglas Hofstader
Series 17: 1986: Texas Sesquicentennial Year (TSY) Donald W. Seldin, MD, Frank E. Vandiver, Horton Foote-Film Festival, Walter J. Ong, S.J.
Series 18: 1987 Errol E. Harris
Series 19: 1988 Allan Bloom; Donald and Louise Cowan; Paul Johnson
Series 20: 1989 Yehudi Menuhin; David Tracy
Series 21: 1990 Cedric Messina
Series 22: 1991 Stanley H. Rosen; Dinesh D’Souza; Weiming Lu
Series 23: 1992 Eva T.H. Brann
Series 24: 1993 Leon R. Kass; Oliver Bernier
Series 25: 1994 René Girard; Robert Wilken
Series 26: 1995 Robert Sokolowski; Paul Goldberger
Series 27:1997 Derek Walcott
Series 28: 1998 Nigel Wood
Series 29:1999 Cardinal Arinze
Series 30: 2000 Francis Fukuyama; Donald Kagan
Series 31: 2002 Bruce Cole
Series 32: 2004 Maya Lin
Series 33: 2006 Jonathan Miller
Series 34: 2007 Mikhail Gorbachev
Series 35: 2008 Mark Helprin
Series 36: 2014 Jonathan Sacks
Series 37: 2015 Nostra Aetate: Brian Farrell, Rabbi David Rosen
Series 38: 2016 Colin L. Powell
Series 39: 2017 Krzysztof Zanussi
Series 40: 2018 Papacy in the 21st century: John Allen, Ross Douthal, Austen Ivereigh
Series 41: 2019 Anthony Doerr
Series 42: 2025 Cynthia L. Haven<---Please open FindingAid .pdf under "FILES" to see full collection details To request any materials from this collection please email: [email protected]
COLLECTION DETAILS:
A collection of the McDermott Lectureship information. This collection includes brochures, correspondence, photos, press releases, articles, transcripts, receipts and budgets. There are also analog and digital recordings included in a separated part of the collection.
BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE
The McDermott Lectureship
In 1974, the university established the Eugene McDermott Lectureship, an endowed lecture series created in honor of Eugene McDermott, the late scientist, businessman, civic leader and philanthropist. It was established on behalf of Mrs. and Mr. Eugene McDermott in 1974 to honor Donald and Louise Cowan's vision and leadership at the University of Dallas and in the city. Beginning with the venerable historian Jacques Barzun, the McDermott Lectureship continues to bring notable public intellectuals to the university for short courses and seminars.
Through the McDermott Lectureship, the University of Dallas and the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts host exceptional guest lecturers and distinguished faculty members on thought-provoking topics within the Western tradition. Prominent scholars have spoken on many topics including art, politics, education, science, Christianity, Western thought, urban planning, medicine, technology, collectivism, liberal arts, philosophy, reason, poetry, physics, architecture, Homer, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Plato, Dante, St. Thomas Aquinas, Locke, Tocqueville, and Leo Strauss.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
The McDermott Lectureship Collection includes a manuscript collection of 6 boxes including brochures, correspondence, press releases, articles, transcripts, receipts and budgets.
A separate digital collection includes audio and visual recordings of the available lectures given at the University of Dallas. Theses are found on UD repository here:
A separate analog collection of the recordings includes 3 boxes of audio and visual recordings on cassettes, VHS/Beta tapes, CDs and DVDs.
ARRANGEMENT DESCRIPTION
This collection was processed at the collection: series, subseries, file level. Digital Files are at item level.
SEPARATED MATERIALS
A separate analog collection of the recordings includes 3 boxes of audio and visual recordings on cassettes, VHS/Beta tapes, CDs and DVDs. These are restricted and stored in the University of Dallas Archives and Special Collection AV room.
DIGITAL FILES
These digital files contained in the McDermott Lectureship Repository are for ACADEMIC RESEARCH ONLY and can only be used at whole documents. No whole or part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher. © 2025 [Speaker(s)] © University of Dallas All rights reserved. The content on this website, including text, images, graphics, and other material, is protected by copyright law. No part of this website may be copied, reproduced, or used in any form without prior written permission. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
1976 Hans Georg Gadamer 'The Timelessness of the Work of Art'
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2483
1976 Hans Georg Gadamer 'The Rule of Science for the Future' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2482
1977 Malcolm Muggeridge 'The True Crisis of Our Time' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2487
1977 Malcolm Muggeridge 'Seeing Through Rather Than with the Eye' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2486
1977 Malcolm Muggeridge 'The Christian Alternative' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2485
1979 Colloquium:
Herbert Marshall McLuhan 'Liberal Education: A Necessity as Freedom' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2484
Hans Georg Gadamer 'Education and Tradition' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2491
Malcolm Muggeridge 'Testament of Faith' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2489
Jacques Barzun 'Necessity as Culture: The Mother of the University' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2488
Christian Norberg-Schulz 'The Architecture of Learning' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2490
Mortimer Adler 'Teaching as Healing' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2493
1981 Paul Ricoeur 'Philosophy and Language' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2492
1981 Paul Ricoeur 'The Narrative' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2494
1981 Paul Ricoeur 'Mimesis' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2495
1982 J. Carter Brown 'Organizing an International Art Exhibition' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2496
1983 Paul Weiss 'An Alternative to Scientific Reductionism' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2497
1983 Paul Weiss 'Second address' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2498
1983 Paul Weiss 'Closing remarks' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2499
1984 Seymour Slive' Rembrandt Self-Portraits' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2500
1985 Panel Discussion Haggerty Science Center Dedication: “on Nature and Science”
Toulmin, Sietz, Weinberg, Gould, Hofstader, Seldin https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2501
1985 Stephen Toulmin 'Methodical Pluralism: Changing Patterns in Scientific Explanation' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2502
1985 Steven Jay Gould 'Boundaries: Scientific Change and the Taxonomic World View' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026 /2503
1985 Douglas Hofstader 'Relationships Between Esthetic Judgement and Science' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2504
1986 Donald W. Seldin, MD' The Doctor-Patient Relationship' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2505
1986 Frank E. Vandiver 'The Civil War and Texas' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2506
1986 Horton Foote 'Screenwriting and Filmmaking' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2507
1986 Walter J. Ong, S.J. ' Plato, Writing, Print, and Computers Disputation and Academic History' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2508
1988 Allan Bloom 'Liberal Education and the Political Community'
interview: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2509
1988 Louise Cowan 'The Transforming Power of the Imagination' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2511
1988 Donald Cowan 'Education for the New Era' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2512
1989 David Tracy 'The Study of the Classic: A Method for Theology' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2513
1989 Yehudi Menuhin 'Music and the Liberal Arts', Rehearsal, Reception https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2514
1990 Cedric Messina 'The Making of the BBC Shakespeare Series' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2515
1991 Dinesh D’Souza 'Race and issues of a Multi-Cultural Curriculum' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2516
1991 Weiming Lu 'Untitled Lecture on City Planning' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2517
1994 René Girard 'Myth and Cultural Origins' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2518
1994 René Girard 'Untitled' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2519
1995 Robert Sokolowski 'Making Distinctions and the Work of Philosophy' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2520
1995 Paul Goldberger 'Urban Impulse: Expressions of Urbanity' For Private Use only(please contact archives)
1998 Nigel Wood 'The Origins of Porcelain in China' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2521
1999 Francis Cardinal Arinze 'Hope in the Modern World' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2522
2000 Francis Fukuyama Discussion of 'The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2534
2000 Donald Kagan What is a Liberal Education, Pericles as Tragic Hero https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2523
2002 Bruce Cole 'The Importance of the Humanities to Democracy' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2524
2003 McDermott Lectures Conversations/Panel (restricted)
2006 Jonathan Miller 'The After-Life of Plays'
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2535
2007 Mikhail Gorbachev: Question and Answer Session
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2538
2014 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks 'To Heal a Fractured World: The Challenge to Faith in the 21st Century' https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2525University of Dallas Archives and Special Collection
RS Dupree Collection
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Linear Feet: 9 boxes
Number of Containers: 9 Boxes, 216 folders
Series 1: UD Undergraduate: Essays, notes and papers
Series 2: Yale graduate school: course descriptions, course work, essays, documents, papers
Series 3: Friends & Colleagues work
Series 4: UD Books, administrative documents, inventory & reports
Series 5: Correspondence, letters, notes & cards
Series 6: Course Materials
Series 7: Book Notes: Allen Tate, 17th Century English Poetry Anthology, The Wasteland
Series 8: Book Drafts (unfinished): Feeling Modern, Sacrifice & Ritual, Zoodles, History of Irving, TX,
Exchange of Bodies
Series 9: Poetry: Keryma, RSD poems, La Fontaine (translation), Zoodles, Homescapes
Series 10: Book Draft: Cities on Paper
Series 11: Book Drafts: Lewis Carroll
Series 12: Conferences: ACTC, SSA, UD, Louisiana Eiffel Tower, TITAS, Dallas Institute, Tempest, Local
Schools & Organizations, Hawaii France Singapore, Correspondence, Coleridge & Pearce, The
Augustinian Imagination.
Series 13: Presentations: Critique & création littéraire on France au XVII Siecle, Historical Exploration
reconsidered, G.Graham, Allen Tate, Faulkner’s Snopes Novels as Trilogy, The Odyssean Aeneid, Lucretius
Series 14: Publications:
Sub series 14.1: book reviews
Sub series 14.2: articles
Sub series 14.3: journals & other publications
Series 15: CV notes & drafts
Series 16: Contracts & Grants
Series 17: Music
Subseries 17.1: copies
Subseries 17.2: music (general)
Series 18: Instruments
Series 19: Phi Beta Kappa/Misc. Collected papers
Series 20: Ephemera: keepsakes, awards, knick-knacksCOLLECTION DETAILS
<---Please open FindingAid .pdf under "FILES" to see full collection details
To request any materials from this collection please email: [email protected]
BIOGRAPHICAL / Historical Note:
Robert Scott Dupree is an English professor emeritus of the University of Dallas (PhD, BA ’62).
Dupree’s career at UD began in 1956. He attended UD on a full scholarship for academic merit. Dupree graduated as class valedictorian in the spring of 1962. He received the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, and attended graduate school at Yale University, graduating in 1966. Dupree became a full-time faculty member to the University of Dallas, where he has spent decades teaching approximately 30 different courses and 6,000 students, including those from his time in France, Rome, Singapore and Liechtenstein. His courses included English, music history, French, drama and literature. Professor Dupree is also the author several published essays, articles and books. He also served as director of the UD Library from 1998-2010. He retired from full-time teaching in 2023.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
The collection spans materials from 1958-2023. Included are: essays, notes, papers
course descriptions, course work, course materials, documents,
friends and colleagues work, books, administrative documents, inventory and reports, correspondence, book notes and drafts, original poetry, conference and presentations notes and transcripts, book reviews, journal articles, CV drafts, contracts and grants, music, miscellaneous collected papers, and ephemera. This collection is a primarily manuscript collection. See also:
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/1583
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/963
ARRANGEMENT DESCRIPTION
This collection was processed at the series, sub-series and file level. The collection has been processed in the original order in which it was delivered
King Fellow Address 2025
No full textKing Fellow Address given by 2024 King Fellow Dr. Richard J. Dougherty, titled, “ Vocation and Avocation: Our Uncommon Bond, ” delivered January 21, 2025
Winter and Our Discontent: Tracing Winter as a Poetic Devise Through Formative Texts of the Early, Middle, and Early Modern English Periods
No full textThe season of winter is a time of inherent contradictions. Winter’s impact on the natural world is simultaneously destructive and generative, and thereby it possesses a curious kind of beauty all its own. Likewise, its impact on human beings is multivalent: as our bodies become sedentary because they must remain inside, our minds are driven towards contemplation; and as we see winter begin to fade and new life rise from it, we can be reminded of our own fleeting lives in the face of an ever-turning cosmos.
Early English poetry, from the Anglo-Saxon through Middle English and Early Modern periods, is very often preoccupied with the seasons and with the relationship that human beings have to those seasons, and winter in particular. We see this first linguistically: Old English initially characterizes the seasons as a binary, winter and summer; yet, over time, summer is eventually broken into spring, summer, and autumn, which leads to our modern four-season computus. Winter, by contrast, is never subdivided, either linguistically or in poetry, which reflects its uniqueness. It captures the English poetic imagination in a way that summer cannot.
There is something compelling about winter that captures the imagination in a way that the other seasons do not, such that the act of thinking about winter allows human beings to think about their own nature in a way that is not otherwise possible through the other seasons. Indeed, this dissertation argues that these English poets are all tapping into the same strain of thinking regarding winter, which can and should bind them together in our own thinking about them. When thought of in this way, we can begin to see the development of the early English poetic tradition in a new light, by thinking of them as meditations on the relationship of human beings to the cosmos, filtered through the lens of the winter season.
This dissertation offers an analysis of eight different poems: the Old English poems “Menologium,” “Wanderer,” “Seafarer,” “Phoenix,” and Beowulf; the Middle English poems Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Pearl Poet) and “Merchant’s Tale” (in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales); and the modern English poem “Shepheardes Calender” (Spenser). Despite the differences between these poems, they are united through their treatment of winter, and therein posit an English poetic tradition that is, at least in part, connected through winter. Winter is unlike the seasons that surround it, just as human beings are unlike the cosmos that surrounds them
2025 King Haggar Haggerty Ceremony - Final Script
No full textFull script of spoken parts for the 2025 King Haggar Haggerty awards ceremony held on January 21, 2025