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Letter from Raymond Cravens to Douglas Keen
No full textLetter from Raymond Cravens to Douglas Keen regarding the creation of the Faculty Advisory Committee formed to participate in the presidential search process
Interview with Raymond L. Cravens (FA 756)
No full textOral history interview with Raymond L. Cravens, after whom the WKU Cravens Library building is named, conducted by Lisa Karen Miller on 2 July 2013. This interview was part of the WKU Libraries Oral History Project. The audio interview can be accessed by clicking the Link to Full Text button. A photograph and a downloadable version can be accessed by clicking on Additional Files
UA68/8/2 Raymond Cravens Oral History
No full textA 1984 interview with Raymond Cravens, WKU administrator conducted by James Bennett and Lowell Harrison
Correspondence
No full textLetter from Raymond Cravens to Donald Zacharias and James Davis regarding his stepping down as Dean of Public Service & International Programs
UA3/3/1 Class Scheduling: An Analysis of the Problem and a Possible Solution
No full textReport by Raymond Cravens submitted to WKU president Kelly Thompson regarding scheduling of classes and the possibility of implementing a trimester system
UA3/3/1 Classroom Utilization / Projection of Faculty Needs for Fall 1962
No full textMemo from Raymond Cravens to WKU president Kelly Thompson regarding classroom utilization and projections of faculty needs for fall 1962. Includes enrollment data for 1961 and estimated increases for 1962. Enrollment is broken down by department
UA3/3/1 Dedication of Kelly Thompson Science Hall
No full textTranscript of Kelly Thompson Science Hall dedication ceremonies broadcast over WKCT radio. Speakers include radio announcer Jim Stevens, Raymond Cravens, Earl Moore, Ward Sumpter, Bernard Madison, Bemis Lawrence, Herbert Smith, Wendell Butler, Kelly Thompson and Governor Bert Combs
Cravens Graduate Center & Library
No full textOther Names - Cravens Graduate Center, 1969Raymond Cravens Library, 2008Date Built - 1970Cost of Construction - 2.4 millionGross Square Feet - 104,723 (1973)Architects - Frank CainNamesake - Raymond Cravens:Born in St. Bernard, Ohio, Raymond L. Cravens obtained his A.B. in 1952 and his M.A. in 1955 from Western. During his college career he worked as business manager for the College Heights Herald where he was also a staff cartoonist. He earned his Ph.D. from University of Kentucky in 1958. Upon graduation he began teaching political science in WKU\u27s History Department and continued up the ladder into administration being named Vice President for Academic Affairs in 1959. He served as Dean of Public Service & International Programs from 1977 to 1980 when he went back to teaching full time. The 1962 Talisman was dedicated to him and the Kentucky Junior Chamber of Commerce named him one of its Outstanding Young Men in Kentucky for 1963. He retired from WKU in 1991. Cravens received a special recognition of 50 years of service to WKU in 2007. The Board of Regents approved the naming of the building on July 8, 1969. Building History: The 9 story building will house graduate library facilities, office of the dean of graduate college, areas for card catalogs and circulation counters, lobby areas and additional auxiliary and storage space. [ Permit Sought For WKU Center, Park City Daily News, August 27, 1969] The building was built of reinforced concrete and brick. It is connected at the fourth floor with the Margie Helm Library and was built on the site of the college swimming pool.On July 7, 1971 the Board of Regents voted to change the name to Raymond Cravens Graduate Center and Library as it would better convey the function and purpose of the building. For information on University Libraries see also:Recitation HallCedar House Gordon Wilson Hall Helm Library Kentucky Building Additions - 2004 - elevators replacedPark City Daily News:1969 August 272003 July 72004 November 42005 July 262.4 Million Low Bid for Western Graduate Center, June 13, 1969Permit Sought for WKU Center, Aug. 10, 1969Western Graduate Center, photo, May 16, 1969https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/wku_timeline/1265/thumbnail.jp
Raymond Williams and the limits of cultural materialism
No full textCultural materialism has become an influential discipline in recent
years, particularly so in 'Renaissance' studies, but also more generally in
'English', as well as departments defined as practising 'cultural' or
'communications' studies. The phrase is usually linked with the name of
Raymond Williams, but a cursory examination of Williams's own work
quickly establishes that it is a phrase he rarely uses, and only schematically
attempts to define. The thesis therefore takes the form of an investigation into
the way cultural materialism has come to be understood, by examining in
detail the trajectory of Raymond Williams's theoretical development, and how
his own engagement with various theoretical positions has helped to set
'limits' on the meaning of cultural materialism.
Chapters 1 and 2 deal with some of Williams's earliest work,
particularly Reading and Criticism, as a way of investigating how reasonable
it is to tag him as a 'Left-Leavisite', arguing that Leavis's undoubted
influence is resisted (though not entirely rejected) from a very early stage. The
first chapter considers in detail Leavis's work at Cambridge, the influence of
Eliot, and the significance of the 'Organic Community'. Chapter 2, which is
based around a comparative analysis of Williams's and Leavis's readings of
Dickens, argues that Williams rejects the 'organic community' in favour of his
'knowable community'. Chapters 4 and 5 deal with specific 'theoretical'
issues: the first, based around a reading of Terry Eagleton's critique of
Williams's use of the Marxist metaphor of 'base and superstructure', shows
some of the problems which arise from Williams's cultural model, as well as
suggesting refinements; the second deals with the influence of Volosinov's
theories on Williams. Chapter 6 comes out of Williams's readings of the
'Country-House' poems in The Country and the City, showing how his
practice of literary criticism relies on an acceptance of 'ideology' apparently
denied in his more 'theoretical' writings. This analysis is extended as a result
of investigations into the 'De L'Isle' manuscripts relating to the Penshurst
estate. Chapter 7 argues that it is possible to see the work of Fredric Jameson
as developing Williams's cultural materialism into Jameson's debates on
postmodernism.
In the Introduction and Conclusion, I have taken the opportunity to
look briefly at the activity of cultural materialism as it has developed since
Raymond Williams's death in 1988. The Introduction emphasizes what I see
to be important methodological differences between 'cultural materialism'
and 'new historicism'; the Conclusion deals with the continuing debate over
the value of a cultural materialist approach by considering the 'appropriation'
of Shakespeare
Raymond Gervais : 3 x 1
No full text"Raymond Gervais 3 X 1 traces and elucidates the important or little-known moments in the practice of Raymond Gervais, an artist who has explored the notion of the aural imagination since the mid 1970s. An erudite author, Gervais joins forces here with Nicole Gingras, a researcher and curator interested in what connects sound, image, and words. The first major publication on the work of a conceptual artist questioning whether thought is acoustic" -- p. [4] of cover
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