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The Author: Kent Davis
No full textKent Davis is a Montana based author of “A Riddle in Ruby” and the soon to be released sequel, “The Changer’s Key”
Cam Henderson, at Davis and Elkins College, 1928
No full textCam Henderson, at Davis and Elkins College, 1928, black and white photograph. Henderson was at Davis and Elkins 1923 - 1933.https://mds.marshall.edu/cam_henderson_papers/1060/thumbnail.jp
Cam Henderson with Davis and Elkins basketballt team, 1934
No full textCam Henderson (far right) and Davis and Elkins College basketball team, 1934, black and white photograph.https://mds.marshall.edu/cam_henderson_papers/1071/thumbnail.jp
Author inscription in The Chinese slave-girl: a story of woman's life in China
No full textThis edition includes a gift inscription by author Rev. J.A. Davis, "To Rev. A. G. Russell with the warmest regards of the author J.A. Davis."Davis, John Agnell, 1839-1897
Cam Henderson (with cap) & Davis & Elkins basketball team, 1925
No full textCam Henderson with the Davis & Elkins basketball team, state champions, 1925, black and white photograph. Sam Clagg in his book identified the men in photo as follows: bottom row, left to right: Miles Kochenderfer, Randall McKinney, Fred Christy Top row: Cam Henderson, Red Crim, Bill Barrett.https://mds.marshall.edu/cam_henderson_papers/1079/thumbnail.jp
Recognition notice for Cam henderson, Davis & Elkins College, 1935
No full textRecognition notice for Cam Henderson, Davis & Elkins College, black and white photograph. Appears to have been a notice cut out of a magazine.https://mds.marshall.edu/cam_henderson_papers/1034/thumbnail.jp
Davis & Elkins champion basketball team, Cam Henderson coach, 1925
No full textDavis & Elkins College basketball champion team, 1925, black and white photograph. Captions around photo read: Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, WV Undefeated State Champions, WVa-1925 Henderson-coach Crim-captain & guard Barrett-forward Kochenderfer-Guard McKinney-forward Christy-center (back of postcard has the record for that year) no addressee, no postmark.https://mds.marshall.edu/cam_henderson_papers/1033/thumbnail.jp
Cam Henderson, probably at Davis and Elkins College, 1935
No full textCam Henderson, probably his last year at Davis and Elkins College, 1935, black and white photograph. Fred Burns stamp on back and date 1935.https://mds.marshall.edu/cam_henderson_papers/1062/thumbnail.jp
H. P. Davis Correspondence
No full textEntries include a handwritten letter from Davis suggesting that the Maine Author Collection could include works by the Davis family and the author Patten and typed letters of correspondence from the Maine State Library
Translation and response between Maurice Blanchot and Lydia Davis
No full textWhen an author translates a text by another writer, this translation is one form of a response to that text. Other responses may appear in their own writings that are more inflected with their authorial persona. Lydia Davis translated six books by Maurice Blanchot, including fiction and theoretical writings. Blanchot’s concept of the récit privileges non-conventional forms of narrative and it can be considered to have influenced Davis, a view shared in critical writing about Davis. However, responses to his fiction can also be found in Davis’s work. This article reads Lydia Davis’s story “Story” as a response to Maurice Blanchot’s récit, La Folie du jour, translated by Davis as “The Madness of the Day”. Both texts develop a narrative that questions the possibility of arriving at a single story: Blanchot’s narrator cannot tell the story of how he came to have glass ground into his eyes, while Davis’s narrator must try to understand a contradictory story told to her by her lover. However, Davis responds to Blanchot by reversing the perspective in the story: where Blanchot’s narrator must and cannot create a story that explains his situation in a judicial/medical context, Davis’s narrator is struggling to understand her lover’s story which does not explain the situation that they find themselves in. Davis’s narrator is therefore motivated by an emotional need to find an acceptable story that is absent from Blanchot’s narrator. This difference in motivation is central to the difference between Davis’s and Blanchot’s approach, and complicates any reading of his influence on her because she responds to his text in her own
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