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Learning from the Masters: The Strategies and Salesmanship of Global Business Leaders Rupert Murdoch and Carly Fiorina
No full textCaroline Gordon Collection
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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
Refashioning a passionate manager : gender at work
No full textDespite what has been historically recognized as the masculinity of the credentials required for successful business life, contemporary managers now face new challenges. They are required to be caring and relationship-oriented. The traditional masculine/feminine hierarchy of logic/emotion is being reshaped by the imperative to be 'passionate' in the workplace. This article argues that a new gendered truth plays an important part in the 'regime of truth' (Foucault, 1980, p. 131) that shapes current organizational life. This truth, championed by feminists to distinguish women's contribution to social life, forms part of our understanding of what it means to be a successful manager. To achieve success in the current environment managers must be, not just rational, but passionate about their work. The article provides readings of a range of texts to establish the centrality of gender and its relationship to contemporary postmodern discourses about change and difference in management practice. The article articulates both some of the new freedoms and constraints for managers. It also elaborates some of the mechanisms whereby this gendered truth reconfirms the traditional masculine/feminine hierarchy
Affairs of the Heart: The Alliances of Gender and Business That Matter to Godd Business Communication
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Making the enterprising manager in Australia: A genealogy
No full textThis study examines the practices and processes through which the identity of the 'enterprising' manager has been formed and idealised in Australia in the 1990s. The study provides a genealogy of the manager as a discursive subject. As a 'history of the present', it takes the formation and practices of the Industry Task Force on Leadership and Management Skills as a 'problem' of the present to be examined and understood.\ud
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The argument is, that the art of government has shifted during this decade from a focus on state-building (through the development of a contract between employees and the State during the post world war period) to a concern for making the individual responsible. Techniques of regulation have increasingly given way to techniques of self-regulation. It is self-regulation that is now the dominant mode of authority in the production of managers as enterprising.\ud
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This reading of the present draws on poststructuralist scholarship, in particular, the work of Michel Foucault on governmentality, power, and the subject. The applications of this theoretical work made by Nikolas Rose ( 1991; 1996a, 1996b) provide a conceptual framework for the analysis of the identity formation of the manager in advanced liberal democracies such as Australia. The insights of feminist poststructuralists - Chris Weedon (1987), Valerie Walkerdine (1990), Wendy Hollway (1991), and Lois McNay (1992) - have oriented the research to take account of the gendering of identity formation in the workplace.\ud
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As a 'history of the present', the purpose of the study is to demonstrate the contingency and instability of the present and its continuities and discontinuities with the past. The study posits the occurrence of the Industry Task Force on Management and Leadership and Management Skills as a significant historical event in the move from the state-building imperative (characterised by the dependence model of welfare) to that of the 'active society' (characterised by responsible and independent individuals).\ud
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Three political rationalities are understood to shape the present: participation, economic rationalism, and gender. The inquiry provides an elaboration of how each of these rationalities has become possible in the present formation of the enterprising manager in Australia. Alongside these, several mechanisms are examined which help to explain the contours and shape of the present. These include the rise of therapeutic authority, dividing practices such as those of personnel management, and the development of competency-based practices for managers which facilitate the calculation and calibration of individuals.\ud
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It is in the nature of genealogies to be incomplete, and this study is no exception. It has been impossible to engage with all those phenomena which inform the making of the enterprising manager. What this study does attempt, however, is to demonstrate some precise ways in which the making of the enterprising manager has worked as both a leverage for change, as well as a closure on, what it is possible to become.\ud
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For this reason, the study targets specific periods for investigation of particular practices. For example, the period of the first fifty years of the twentieth century produced important practices of management. However, it is the period from World War Two to the 1970s that provides an understanding of the formalisation of management practices in Australia, centred around increasing lines of authority and regulation. Alongside this periodisation, the period from 1970 to the mid 1980s is chosen for particular attention, because it is in this period that the idea of 'participation' becomes a normal practice in organisations. Special consideration is given to this period because the study argues that participation is an important political rationality through which the art of government is possible in the present. Additionally, recognising the importance of the concept of discontinuity in understanding the present in a Foucauldian framework, the period from the 1980s to the mid 1990s maps the emergence of the 'active' manager in Australia.This emergence is traced through a range of sites, including a global discourse of the active citizen, as well as more micro attempts to produce these practices, such as the development of manuals and motivational texts
The role english plays in the construction of professional identities in nest-nnes bilingual marriages in İstanbul
No full textCaroline Fell Kurban (MEF Author)…WOS:000389065100011Book Citation Index- Social Sciences and HumanitiesArticle; Book ChapterOcakYÖK - 2014-1
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