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The Madwoman of Chaillot
No full textThe playbill for Taylor University\u27s performance of The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux and adapted by Maurice Valency.
Performed on November 8-9, 2024 at 7:30pm and November 10, 2024 at 2:00pm in the Mitchell Theatre at Taylor University.
Jean Giraudoux\u27s The Madwoman of Chaillot, adapted by Maurice Valency, is a poetic and satirical fable that critiques capitalism and greed. The play is set in Paris, where a group of greedy businessmen plans to tear up the city to drill for oil. Their plans are discovered by Countess Aurelia, the titular Madwoman, a wonderfully eccentric and idealistic woman who believes in the goodness of humanity. Along with her fellow madwomen and a collection of other Parisian outcasts—including a Ragpicker and a Sewer Man—she devises a plan to lure the financiers into a hidden, bottomless pit in her cellar. Through this act, they condemn the corrupt men and symbolically rid the world of their destructive influence. The play is a celebration of art, love, and humanity\u27s whimsical spirit triumphing over the cold, materialistic forces that seek to destroy it.https://pillars.taylor.edu/playbills/1388/thumbnail.jp
Interview of community organizer, teacher, and author Maurice Broaddus
No full textCommunity organizer, teacher, and author Maurice Broaddus is interviewed by University of Florida doctoral student Kimberly Williams following the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. He talks about how faith and hope informs his writing and activism work, and shares how as a student, he originally majored in biology but later transitioned into creative writing. Broaddus speaks of his start in the horror genre and how that was his genesis to work through rage and pain. He explains what Afrofuturism means to him and how it parallels his activism regarding oral history, community engagement, and teaching. Maurice states "Afrofuturism offers us a chance to see ourselves" and that the Zora Neale Hurston's scholarship and Afrofuturism tenets both promote living and creating an authentic self
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
Kenny, Maurice; 1984-10-30
No full textBiography: Maurice Kenny was born in Watertown, New York State and has been a poet, editor, publisher, and professor at North Community College and the University of Oklahoma. He earned a B.A. in English literature in 1956 from the Butler University. Kenny’s writing and editorial work have influenced many Native Americans toward an appreciation of values and political insight into their cultures. He was greatly influenced by Louise Bogan who helped to direct his growing sense of voice and craft. Kenny has been a leading figure in the Renaissance of Native American poetry since the 1970’s. He passed away in 2016.
-Internet Public Library\u27s Native American Author\u27s Project, Maurice Kenny, 2020-09-1
Maurice Annenberg papers
No full textMaurice Annenberg (1907-1979) was a Baltimore printer, businessman, entrepreneur, and author of works on the history of printing, advertising, and the graphic arts. He wrote three books: Advertising, 3000 B.C.-1900 A.D., Type Foundries of America and Their Catalogues, and A Typographical Journey through the Inland Printer, 1883-1900. The collection consists of correspondence; typography and other printing samples; trade catalogs; publications; photographs; programs; and speeches about the history of printing and advertising. The Marylandia and Rare Books Department also holds a portion of his personal library
2020-2021 Maurice Carlos Ruffin
No full textMaurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of We Cast a Shadow, which was published by One World Random House. The novel is a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Ruffin is the winner of several literary prizes, including the Iowa Review Award in fiction and the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Award for Novel-in-Progress. His work has appeared in the Oxford American, Garden & Gun, and Kenyon Review. A New Orleans native, Ruffin is a professor of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University, and the 2020-2021 John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at Ole Miss.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1027/thumbnail.jp
A Spirit of Care with Maurice Hamington
No full textOverview & Shownotes
Care impacts all of our lives intimately. Whether you’re the recipient of care, a caregiver, or both, you know that the practice of care can be fraught with ethical and moral questions. On today’s episode of Examining Ethics, we’re going to discuss the basics of care ethics with Maurice Hamington, a professor at Portland State University whose work on care spans decades. He explains that unlike utilitarianism or virtue ethics, care ethics can be difficult to reduce to a simple set of guidelines.
For the episode transcript, download a copy or read it below.
Contact us at [email protected] Links to people and ideas mentioned in the show Maurice Hamington kindly provided the list of resources below: Madeleine Bunting, Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care (Granta, 2020) [This book is up for a non-fiction prize and the author is well-known in the UK and a contributor to the Guardian. The most in-demand care ethicist today is political theorist Joan Tronto who recently retired from the University of Minnesota. Her most recent book is Caring, Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice (NewYork University Press, 2013). An example of how care has become interdisciplinary is Performing Care: New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Performance (Manchester University Press, 2020)which addresses some of the aesthetics of care. A very moving book that challenges ideas about masculinity and care is Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities (University of California Press, 2021) written by an anthropologist. There is an International Journal of Care and Caring and an international books series on Peeters Publishers. Maurice Hamington, Embodied Care (University of Illinois Press, 2004) and Care Ethics and Poetry (written with a poet, Ce Rosenow) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s table of contents Normative Credits
Thanks to Evelyn Brosius for our logo. Music featured in the show:
Partly Sage by Blue Dot Sessions
Colrain by Blue Dot Session
Jere Nash Interview with Maurice Dantin
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with Maurice Dantin in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Dantin ran unsuccessfully for Mississippi Governor in 1975 and the U.S. Senate in 1978. Topics covered included Dantin\u27s family; relationship with Gil Carmichael; Dantin\u27s education and military service; Dantin as mayor of Columbia and district attorney; school integration; football player Walter Peyton; involvement in Young Democrats; Bill Colmer; running for governor in 1975; Bill Waller; William Winter; Cliff Finch; Walker, Delois; Jimmy Carter; James O. Eastland; Columbia mayor Buddy McLean and integration; running for the Senate in 1978; Sonny Montgomery; Aaron Henry; Thad Cochran; and Charles Evers\u27 campaign for Senate and backing by Nelson Rockefeller and D.A. Biglane
Questions à un illustrateur qui est également un auteur : une conversation entre Maurice Sendak et Virginia Haviland
No full textQuestions to an Artist Who is Also an Author: A Conversation between Maurice Sendak and Virginia HavilandSource: The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, Vol. 28, No. 4 (OCTOBER 1971), pp. 262-280Published by: Library of CongressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/29781488 .In 1970 author-illustrator Maurice Sendak gives an interview at the Library of Congress, where Virginia Haviland, head of the Library’s Children’s Book Section, asks him about his approach to illustration and children’s books. A year later a written account of this interview is published, along with a short introduction. Here is the first French translation thereof.En 1970, l’auteur-illustrateur Maurice Sendak accorde un entretien à la Bibliothèque du Congrès, où Virginia Haviland, responsable de la section des livres jeunesse de l’institution, l’interroge sur sa conception de l’illustration et des livres pour enfants. Une version écrite de cet entretien paraît un an plus tard, précédée d’une courte introduction. Voici la première traduction française de cette publication
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