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Finding Aid for the James B. Meriwether Collection (MUM00156)
No full textCollection of research materials and drafts for Lion in the garden: interviews with William Faulkner, 1926-1962. by James B. Meriwether
Discussion for Small Groups
No full textDiscussion topics will be repeated so that participants can attend all three sessions
Faulkner: Biography and Environment / Calvin Brown, James B. Meriwether, and Lewis SimpsonFaulkner the Artist / Margaret Walker Alexander, Albert J. Guerard, and Elizabeth HardwickFaulkner the Man / George William Healy, Jr., Mrs. Mark Hoffman, Aston Holley, William McNeil Reed, William E. Stone, and James W. Web
Engraved portrait of Sir James Turner (b. c.1615, d. in or after 1689)
No full textEngraved portrait of Sir James Turner, army officer and author (b. c.1615, d. in or after 1689) by Robert White (1645-1703
Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
No full textJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
Letter from James Cobb Coleman, Eutaw, Alabama, to Dorcas B. Jones, Suffield, Connecticut, December 2, 1850
No full textJames Bond: international man of gastronomy
No full textThis article is concerned with the representation of food and drink in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. In particular, it examines how the author uses Bond’s culinary knowledge and habits of consumption as an important constituent of his hero’s character. Similarly, the food choices of other characters, notably villains, are shown to be linked, by Fleming, to core aspects of their identity − principally their ethnicity. Bond’s impulse to observe and classify, very much in evidence in the novels’ food sequences, is examined in terms of the texts’ construction of Bond as a skilled identifier of signs
A critical comparison of William James and Søren Kierkegaard on religious belief
No full textThis thesis is a critical comparison of the accounts of religious belief proposed byWilliam James and Søren Kierkegaard. Both James and Kierkegaard greatly emphasizethe subjective aspects of religious belief. In view of this fact, surprisingly littlecomparative work has been done in this area. I contribute to this literature in two ways.Firstly, I make a brief assessment of what James knew of Kierkegaard’s work.Secondly, I draw four comparisons between Kierkegaard and James. In Chapter One Iexamine the claim that Kierkegaard proposes a pragmatist account of faith of the kindthat James sets out in his essay The Will To Believe. I argue that this claim rests on amisunderstanding of Kierkegaard’s argument that to have faith is to take a risk. In thefollowing chapter I discuss James’s and Kierkegaard’s views on formal proofs for theexistence of God. Both philosophers reject the notion that faith can be based on suchproofs. I distinguish between their positions, and argue in favour of Kierkegaard’s. Inthe third chapter I compare Kierkegaard’s and James’s accounts of religious experience.James views religious experiences as a special kind of evidence for the existence ofGod. For Kierkegaard it is a mistake to view religious experiences as evidence. Suchexperiences should be understood in relation to the concept of religious authority. In thefinal chapter I examine Kierkegaard’s conception of faith as a life-view. I argue that forKierkegaard a life-view is a fundamental perspective on one’s existence. I compare thisconception with James’s concept of philosophical temperament and in relation to hisdiscussion of the sick soul
Theology in suspense : how the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes theological thought
No full textElectronic redacted version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThe following dissertation argues that the detective fiction of P.D. James
provokes her readers to think theologically. I present evidence from the body of
James’s work, including her detective fiction that features the Detective Adam
Dalgliesh, as well as her other novels, autobiography, and non-fiction work. I also
present a brief history of detective fiction. This history provides the reader with a
better understanding of how P.D James is influenced by the detective genre as well as
how she stands apart from the genre’s traditions.
This dissertation relies on an interview that I conducted with P.D. James in
November, 2008. During the interview, I asked James how Christianity has
influenced her detective fiction and her responses greatly contribute to this
dissertation. However, James’s novels should be interpreted and explored in the
manner that they are received by the reader. How the reader receives and responds to
the novels, not only how James writes the novels, is what causes her stories to
provoke theological thinking.
By examining Christian symbolism that is present in setting, character, the
Detective Adam Dalgliesh, and plot, this dissertation seeks to assert that James
contributes to a theological conversation through her popular detective fiction
Bill to James Berry from William B. Dewees, an Old 300 colonist
No full textDEWEES, WILLIAM B. (1819-1878). Document signed, Colorado County, January 31, 1844. Bill to James Berry. Dewees was author of “Letters From An Early Settler of Texas To A Friend.” 2pp
History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the river Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. : Performed during the years 1804-5-6. By order of the government of the United States.
No full textThis, the first authentic history of the expedition, was written by Nicholas Biddle, and edited by Paul Allen. cf. E. Coues, Hist. of the expedition, 1893: appleton, Cycl. amer. biogr.; Cover imprint: Philadelphia : Published by Bradford and Inskeep; Abm. H. Inskeep, New York; E.J. Coale, Baltimore; and J. Hoff, Charleston, S.C. J. Maxwell, Printer, 1814.; Preface signed and dated: Paul Allen. Philadelhia, January 1, 1814.; Folded map has title: A map of Leiws and Clark's track, across the Western portion of North America from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; by order of the executive of the United States in 1804.5. & 6. Copied by Samuel Lewis from the original drawing of Wm. Clarke. Saml. Harrison sct.; Vol. 1: xxviii, 470 p., [3] maps (frontispiece, and between p. 62-63, 260-261) ; vol. 2: ix, [i], 522 p., [3] maps (between p. 30-31, 52-53, 70-71).; Signatures: vol. 1: A⁴ b-c⁴ d² B-3N⁴ 3O⁴ (-3O4); vol. 2: A⁶ (-A1) B-3U⁴ 3X² (-3X2).; The Appendix (vol. 2, p. [435]-522) contains: (1) Observations and reflections on the present and future state of upper Louisiana, in relation to the government of the Indian nations ... and the trade and intercourse with the same. By Captain Lewis. -- (2) A summary statement of the rivers, creeks and most remarkable places, their distances from each other, & their distances from the Mississippi, ascending the Missouri, across the Rocky mountains, and down the Columbia to the Pacific ocean, as was explored in the years 1804. 5 and 6 by Captains Lewis and Clarke. -- (3) Estimate of the western Indians. -- (4) Thermometrical observations, showing also the rise and fall of the Mississippi (Missouri); appearances of weather, winds, etc. -- (5) Remarks and reflections [January 1, 1804, to August 22, 1806].; Library copy: Rebound in elaborately gilt green morocco by Riviere & Son, with original printed covers bound in at end of each volume.; Shaw & Shoemaker records this title at 30657 with Allen, Paul as main entry, and at 31924 with Lewis, Meriwether as main entry
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