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Caroline Gordon Collection
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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
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
Public Conservation Policies on Private Land: A Case Study of the Brazilian Forest Code and Implications for the Agro-Industry Sector
No full textThe objectives of this paper are to discuss (1) a brief history of the Brazilian Forest Code (FC); (2) key aspects of the 2012 FC revisions; (3) the status of implementation, including institutional and field-level challenges, as well as economic incentives to ease compliance; and (4) the importance of the FC for the Brazilian agro-industrial sector
Brief for the Appellee-Respondent Sunpeace: Seventh Annual Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition
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Brief for Stephen Johnson, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Appellee: Twentieth Annual Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition
No full textSpirituality and the Beat Generation
No full textThe sprituality and religion of the Beat Generation, including Black Mountain School and San Francisco Poetry Renaissance authors is a vast topic. I\u27m not quite sure a lifetime of research could truly envelope the mystique of Gary Snyder\u27s study of Buddhism in Japan with Joanne Kyger; Allen Ginsberg\u27s evolution through Judaism, Hinduism, and Tibetan Buddhism; Kerouac\u27s passion for both Christianity and Mahayana Buddhism; Diane di Prima\u27s development from Zen to Tibetan Buddhism, with western magical practices too; and Michael McClure\u27s relationship with both the visionary and scientific, and Zen Buddhism. The field is enormous, and sadly--or, fortunately for the young scholar--disregarded in most literary criticism and theory. The study of religion in the post-World War era, when much of America was booming financially but deprived culturally, is one of the most important influences on American poets at that time. As mentioned, little has been published on the topic of the Beat Generation\u27s involvement with Eastern and Occult Religions. I was lucky to have found a few obscure dissertations from various mid-western colleges, and a smattering of articles published by the authors of the movement. What little there was to read on the subject left the wonderful opportunity to interview some of the surviving members of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance and the Beat Generation. Spending time in San Francisco allowed me to speak to Michael McClure, an integral part of the famous reading at Gallery 6 where Ginsberg\u27s Howl was first recited, and author of Scratching the Beat Surface and many volumes of poetry. Thanks to a stroke of lucky scheduling and a few pulled strings by another great mentor of mine, Robert Creely, I also was able to interview Diane di Prima, a lesser known poet, but very well established as a San Francisco Renaissance figure and political revolutionary in the 1960s. Finally, I was able to meet John Cassady, the son of the late Neal Cassady--the subject for Kerouac\u27s Dean Moriarty in On the Road, who was able to reflect on his father\u27s relationship with Kerouac, and his memories of Kerouac\u27s Buddhist practice. On the East Coast, I attended the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Conference in Lowell, Massachusetts, where Kerouac was raised, in which I was able to confer with many other scholars of the Beat Generation, and speak with David Amram, a Close friend of Kerouac\u27s in the 1950s
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