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Letter, S. H. Pope to W. H. Lee; 2/19/1865
No full textLetter, Samuel H. Pope in Shuqualak, Mississippi, to William Hollinshed Lee, at the Officer\u27s Hospital in Uniontown, Alabama, expressing his desire for Lee to visit him at his boarding house. Sims was wounded and captured. Pope sympathizes with Lee\u27s unpleasant experience in the hospital. General Stephen D. Lee and Regina Harrison had a \u27\u27grand affair\u27\u27 of a wedding, and \u27\u27Maj. Blewitt gave them a large Confederate party the following evening.\u27\u27 Pope doesn\u27t believe that war time is the right time to get married. 1865.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-san-lee-sar-papers/1003/thumbnail.jp
Letter, S. H. Pope to W. H. Lee; 1/8/1865
No full textLetter, Samuel H. Pope in Shuqualak, Mississippi, to William Hollinshed Lee, at the Officer\u27s Hospital in Uniontown, Alabama. Pope is stationed in Shuqualak as Purchasing Commissary. He invites Lee to visit Columbus and mentions that he can stay with Mrs. Morrow (Pope\u27s mother-in-law) and \u27\u27Miss Clodie\u27\u27 (Clotille Morrow). He wonders if Lee can work out a transfer to the hospital in Columbus. \u27\u27All excitement from Raids has subsided.\u27\u27 Sam Battle Fort was shot through both shoulders in November and was \u27\u27unable to push on a coat.\u27\u27 Pope explains why didn\u27t receive his recent mail in a timely way; when he telegraphed Lee, he had \u27\u27just returned from a tour of inspection on horse back, through the interior of the state.\u27\u27 1865.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-san-lee-sar-papers/1002/thumbnail.jp
The life and works of James Miller, 1704-1744, with particular reference to the satiric content of his poetry and plays.
No full textPhDJames Miller was born the son of a Dorset rector in 1704. He
was himself ordained, but acquired no benefice until just before his
early death, probably because of a scathing portrayal of the Bishop
of London in one of his verse satires. At Oxford he wrote a vivacious
comedy of humours, set in the University. Its production in 1730
began his dramatic career, at a time when the number of London
theatres had just doubled, and new dramatic forms were being invented.
In 1731 his poem Harlequin-Horace, a witty inversion of
the Ars Poetica, attacked pantomime and opera, but also painted a
lively portrait of the entire theatrical world, in the tradition of
the Dunciad.
After collaborating in a translation of Moliere's works Miller
wrote two plays based on this author. Of all his dramatic works
these were the most successful with his contemporaries, and were
followed by a modernisation of Much Ado, and a ballad-opera adapted
from an afterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and rendered highly
topical. Miller made similar use of a recent French comedy showing
a Red Indian's reactions to civilisation, a satiric "fable" by Walsh
and Voltaire's Mahomet. A large quantity of original material was
incorporated into most of these, and this is generally satirical in
nature. The Indian is made to voice almost egalitarian sentiments.
An afterpiece, "The Camp Visitants", satirised military inaction
in the war, and was apparently banned. The manuscripts of the six
plays produced after the Licensing Act bear the examiner's deletions,
and illustrate the nature of the censorship at this time.
Miller's greatest strength is probably his flexible, vigorously
colloquial dialogue. His political satire is mostly contained in
the poetry, which attacks Walpole's administration with increasing
vehemence through the seventeen-thirties, until its fall. In 1740
two poems that used Pope in symbolic contrast to Walpole caused a
sensation. In both poetry and plays Miller is also a social satirist,
who lays unusually strong emphasis on false taste and the deterioration
of culture
Correspondence between Zelma C. Wyche, William H. Samuel and Vernon Jordan, 1968
No full textCorrespondence from Zelma C. Wyche to William H. Samuel proposing a voter education program to take advantage of a Black majority voting population. William H. Samuel' correspondence to Vernon Jordan endorses the proposal to Vernon Jordan citing an important upcoming election and the fact no Black person had held office at the time of correspondence
Correspondence from William H. Samuel to Vernon Jordan, August 1968
No full textCorrespondence from William H. Samuel to Vernon Jordan endorsing the Grant Parish Civic and Improvement Organization to increase Black civil rights participation and knowledge of voter education rights
Correspondence between William H. Samuel Jr. and John Lewis, 1971
No full textCorrespondence between John Lewis and William H. Samuel about the Louisiana Voter Education Project Summer Intern Program. Included is a summary of the summer program, general statistics for VEP projects in Louisiana, and a description of summer program participants
Letter from Captain W. H. Pope, Columbiana, Alabama, to S. Cooper, Richmond, Virginia, February 8, 1863
No full textWriting and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
No full textThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
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