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Caroline Gordon Collection
No full textArrangement Description
EXTENT
Linear Feet: 2 linear feet
Number of Containers: 2 boxes
Series 1: Writings, 31 files
Series 2: Lectures, 19 files
Series 3: Courses, 10 files
Series 4: Book Reviews, 5 files
Series 5: About Caroline Gordon,8 files
Series 6: Correspondence, 18 files
Series 7: Books, 5 books
Series 8: Media: 9 digital files, 9 cassettes, 2 reelsCOLLECTION DETAILS
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BIOGRAPHICAL / Historical Note: Twentieth-century novelist Caroline Gordon was born into the Kentucky line of the extensive Meriwether family in 1895. Exploration of the family's past and its evolution is a major theme of her fiction. She grew up at Merry Mont in Todd County, near Clarksville where she received her early education. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bethany College in 1916. Her father is the idealized subject of Gordon's second novel, Alec Maury, Sportsman (1934), and the central character in her much-anthologized story, "Old Red." Gordon taught briefly; then, as a journalist, she became one of the first reviewers to comment favorably on a new Nashville-based magazine of poetry, The Fugitive. During the summer of 1924, Robert Penn Warren, a Todd County neighbor, introduced her to Allen Tate. Within a year they were married and living in New York City, where their daughter, Nancy Meriwether was born. With Tate, she began a period of life abroad, devoted to writing and sustained by various fellowships granted to one or the other. In London, Gordon was secretary to the influential British writer Ford Madox. In 1930 the Tates returned to the United States and settled in Clarksville in a house provided by Tate's brother Ben and called "Benfolly." Both Tates were exceptionally hospitable to friends and encouraging to younger writers. Both were prolific correspondents, generous with constructive criticism. (Gordon eventually became mentor to several writers, most notably Flannery O'Connor). Although she had to wrest time for her writing from domestic and social obligations, the eight Benfolly years were especially productive for Gordon, who published four novels and several stories before 1937. The first novel was Penhally (1931), followed by Alec Maury, Sportsman (1934), None Shall Look Back (1937), and The Garden of Adonis (1937), studies of the southern family during the Civil War and Great Depression. Academic appointments of the 1940s took the Tates throughout the Southeast and to Princeton, where they established a home near their daughter, who married psychiatrist Percy Wood in 1944. During this time Gordon published her fifth novel, Green Centuries (1941). Her second related group of novels, The Woman on the Porch (1944), which deals with a troubled marriage, The Strange Children (1951), based on life at Benfolly, and The Malefactors (1956), is informed by her conversion to Roman Catholicism. She and her husband wrote The House of Fiction (1950), which was followed by Gordon's How to Read a Novel in 1957. Gordon lived in Princeton until 1973, teaching, and writing: The Glory of Hera (1972). An appointment in the creative writing program drew her to the University of Dallas (Gordon was 77 years old when she proposed the new creative writing program at UD). When her health began to fail in 1978, she moved to San Cristobal de las Casas in Chapas, Mexico, with her daughter and family. She died there on April 11, 1981.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION Caroline Gordon (1895-1981) was an American author. This collection consists of manuscripts of Gordon's work, including novels, lectures, and poetry during her time at the University of Dallas. It also includes correspondence with authors and family members, writings of others, and photographs.
Lectures and Commentary available here: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2548University of Dalla
Gordon McGilton - It\u27s Not I\u27ll Believe It When I See It, But You\u27ll See It When You Believe It
No full textThis week\u27s Podcast features Gordon McGilton, Director of a Private Equity Fund with investment in multiple industries. Gordon shares the humorous and unique way he was introduced to Dr. Deming\u27s philosophies. He provides an example of a company that is using The Deming System of Profound Knowledge with great success, as well as how one can begin their own journey.
Gordon starts with, every business is just a system and that system delivers some change of state that customers are willing to pay for. Everything else in between is just by what method to do it.
Listen as Gordon shares the Jet-Hot, Inc. story, a real example of how he applied the Deming System of Profound Knowledge and systems thinking to a coatings company on the verge of insolvency. After three years, with the same people, the company is prospering and the employees are proud of what they do, the company they work for and the solutions they provide the customers.
We step back and hear how Gordon was introduced to Dr. Deming\u27s philosophies while working in the auto industry in 1980, when the documentary If Japan Can, Why Can\u27t We aired on NBC-TV. This is a must listen podcast, as Gordon shares the tale of his initial resistance to attending Dr. Deming\u27s 4-Day Seminar; and his subsequent understanding that everything he had learned in management, up to that point, was wrong.
Gordon explores his Aha! Moments, the first of which was, you can\u27t increase someone\u27s capability by offering them money or by threatening them. This was a huge breakthrough, as he was raised on an intimidation model believing that\u27s how you got things done. The breakthrough came once he saw that providing employees with the instructions, tools, information and support they needed, is what actually improved their performance.https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/deming_podcast/1017/thumbnail.jp
Michel Foucault and Judith Butler: troubling Butler's appropriation of Foucault's work
No full textOne of the main influences on Judith Butler‘s thinking has been the work of Michel Foucault. Although this relationship is often commented on, it is rarely discussed in any detail. My thesis makes a contribution in this area. It presents an analysis of Foucault‘s work with the aim of countering Butler‘s representation of his thinking. In the first part of the thesis, I show how Butler initially interprets Foucault‘s project through Nietzschean genealogy, psychoanalysis and Derridean discourse, and how she later develops this interpretation in line with the progress of her own project. In the main part of the thesis, I present an analysis of Foucault‘s thinking in the period from The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) to The History of Sexuality volume 1 (1976). This analysis focuses on the aspect of his work which has most influenced Butler‘s thinking: namely the notion of a relationship between knowledge, discourse and power. The other issues in his work which Butler addresses—genealogy, the subject, the body, abnormality, and sexuality—are discussed within this framework. I show how, in the early 1970s, Foucault develops the notion of power-knowledge, and sets out a relationship between power-knowledge and discourse which is overlooked by Butler. I argue that Butler interprets Foucaultian power through the notions of repression and social norms, and ignores the concepts of technology and strategy which form a key part of Foucault‘s thinking. I show how, from The Archaeology of Knowledge on, Foucault develops a socio-historical ontology and a genealogy of the subject, both of which are at variance with Butler‘s interpretation of his thinking
[Amnesty Letter ID038] / [Butler, Thomas A.
No full textThis letter was written by Thomas A. Butler to President Andrew Johnson in response to the President's Amnesty Proclamation of 29 May 1865. The writer indicates his county of residence as Macon Co. (North Carolina) and does not state his occupation
Other title: Gordon Parks' the Learning Tree
No full textapplication/pdf; Includes bibliographical references.A set of 10 documents provided by the Kansas Center for the Book and the Kansas State Library, with resources and information on the Gordon Parks' the Learning Tree.Senate Resolution No. 1822: a Resolution in Memory of Gordon Parks (2006) -- Attention-Libraries and Book Community of Kansas: from Roy Bird [and] Vikki Jo Stewart [press release]. (November 20, 2006) -- Leading a Book Discussion / Maria Butler (2007) -- The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks: How it Feels to be Black in the White Man's World [poster] (2007) -- Gordon Parks - Biography (2007) -- Gordon Parks - Bibliography (2007) -- Life and Times of Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks 1912-2006 (2007) -- Gordon Parks - Book Review (2007) -- Gordon Parks - Resources - Program Ideas (2007) -- Resources - Discussion Questions (2007)
Statement of Gordon Hirabayashi
No full textStatement by Gordon Hirabayashi about his refusal to register for forced removal to an incarceration camp. He writes: "This order for the mass evacuation of all persons of Japanese descent denies them the right to live."The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case Ex parte Mitsuye Endo (1944), in which the United States Supreme court unanimously ruled that the federal government could not indefinitely detain United States citizens who were loyal to the government. Files include documents related to the Gordon Hirabayashi Supreme Court case Hirabayashi v. United States
Author Gordon Henry reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Gordon Henry, MSU professor of English, reads selections of his poetry and fiction then answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by librarian Michael Rodriguez. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Wolfang station shearing shed loading bales, Clermont, Queensland, ca. 1915 [picture] /
No full textAccompanied by photographic print.; Glass negative no. 111.; Part of the Gordon Cumming Pullar collection of glass negatives of Clermont, Yeppoon and nearby locations, Queensland, ca. 1905-1932.; Photograph no. 219 in the book A shifting town : glass-plate images of Clermont and its people.; Wolfang Downs was established in 1863 by Augustus Kerrin and acquired by Oscar de Satge, author of Pages from the Journal of a Queensland Squatter; note the crane for lifting bales. .; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4191848; Published in: A shifting town : glass-plate images of Clermont and its people / by G.C. Pullar ; compiled by Richard and Marguerite Stringer ; text by Marguerite Stringer. St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1986
Interview with Robert Gordon
No full textThis interview with Robert Gordon, Illinois Tech architecture alumnus, architect, planner, artist, and author, was conducted on June 6, 2017 by Ralph Pugh and Adam Strohm
Two Roads To The Heartland | 21-20265
No full textTwo Roads To The HeartlandI. Country, II. Town
Part Number: 21-20265
Previous Part Number: HL-265
Price: $2.20
Voicing: SSA
Music By: Allan Gordon Bellhttps://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jca_scores/1576/thumbnail.jp
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