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Integration with
Dignity
ed. Skip Eisiminger
"It is often
said that history is the lengthening shadow of one man. In Clemson
University's case this man was Harvey Gantt. The desegregation of
Clemson University by Gantt on January 28, 1963, was characterized by
‘Integration with Dignity’ and is regarded by many as a signature event
in American social history."
--Dr.
H. Lewis Suggs, from Integration with Dignity |
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Melville's Use
of "The Rebellion Record" in his Poetry
by Frank Day
"Melville drew
on the [Rebellion] Record for twenty of the seventy-two poems in
Battle-Pieces and for two others included in his later volume of
poems...His indebtedness to the Record, moreover, is greater in one
sense than is suggested by the total of twenty poems out of
seventy-two, for most of the fifty-two poems not indebted to the Record
are largely philosophical, eulogistic, or inscriptive. Of the lines
actually describing war events and giving details of battles, an
estimated eighty percent have probable sources in the Record."
--Frank Day, from the Foreword
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Literature and
Digital Technologies
ed. Karen Schiff
"In widening
the scope of 'digital technologies' so far as to include the production
of literary texts through different kinds of digital machines, we have
arrived at the heart of the enterprise that has driven this entire
endeavor: the use of technologies to promote the circulation and
reading of works of literature. The ways that the technologies inflect
the reading experience depend on a confluence of innumerable factors;
the papers in this volume focus specifically on issues that grow out of
the intersection of electronic technologies and literary study."
--Karen
Schiff, from the Foreword |
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Tales of
Clemson, 1936-1940
by Arthur V. Williams, M.D.
"The tales
that Dr. Williams has included in this wonderful collection of Clemson
stories bring back many fond memories for me. Every page is like an old
friend greeting me at a class reunion. But there is more to this book
than memories. It is also a remarkable record of what life was like at
Clemson 60-plus years ago. In this day and age of ‘reality TV,’ here we
have a delightful volume of ‘reality text.’ And as one of the
‘survivors’ (to borrow a current TV term), I can tell you it is almost
as much fun reading this text as it was living it!"
--Walter T.
Cox '39 President Emeritus
Clemson University |
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Virginia Woolf's
Illness
by Douglass W. Orr, M.D.
ed. Wayne K. Chapman
"Virginia
Woolf’s Illnesses is not written by a literary man, nor does it
feign to be 'literature.' Its kinship to biography bears the virtues
and defects of a trained, independent observer dedicated to inductive
procedures. We have both science and art here..."
--Dr. Wayne
Chapman, from the Preface |
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Psychoanalysis
and the Bloomsbury Group
by Douglass W. Orr, M.D.
ed. Wayne K. Chapman
"This
monograph is based on a 52-page paper read by the author, on April 21,
1978, to members of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Society in La Jolla,
California. Intended for Psychoanalytic Quarterly, the paper has not
been published until now even though it anticipated Orr's posthumous
book, Virginia Woolf's Illnesses (2004), also available in
this series.
--Wayne K. Chapman |
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Omi and the
Christmas Candles:
A Tale of Nine Christmases During the Nazi Era
by Skip Eisiminger
"Once upon a
time many years ago, the country of Germany lay under a spell cast by
an evil sorcerer, Adolf Hitler... " Thus begins Omi and the
Christmas Candles, a children's story about a family's survival
during the Second World War. Distilled from several volumes of
Eisiminger's notes and transcriptions of informal interviews with his
wife's family, this book recalls nine remarkable Christmas
celebrations.
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Women &
Clemson University
by Dr. Jerome V. Reel, Jr.
"The admission
of women into the Clemson family is one of this University's great
success stories. Clemson women have made Clemson strong. Without all
that our women faculty, staff, students and graduates have accomplished
and contributed, we can only speculate what Clemson would be today.
Certainly every major transition has made Clemson a better, stronger
institution, moving it from an all-male, all-white military school to a
civilian, coeducational, desegregated research university that we can
proudly say is among the nation's most outstanding public
universities."
--James F.
Barker, FAIA, President of Clemson University
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Growing Up
Cartoonist in the Baby-Boom South:
A Memoir and Cartoon Retrospective
by Kate Salley Palmer
"Kate Palmer's
political cartoons are great--that is, if they are about someone else.
At any rate, they justify a look into her life. Where did this free and
caring and funny spirit come from? What was her family like? Were they
also contrarians? . . . Kate Palmer is . . . what we in the South call
'a character.' . . . She calls herself a satirist, which she defines as
a 'professional smartass.' Most of her subject characters would agree
with that definition."
--Richard W.
Riley, former governor of South Carolina, from the Foreword
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Felix Academicus:
Tales of a Happy Academic
by Skip Eisiminger
This book is a potpourri
of thirty-two essays and poems written by Skip Eisiminger between
the turn of the twenty-first century and mid-2006. As the enclosed works show, Eisiminger is an academic who still looks forward to Monday
mornings, even after thirty-six years of teaching in Clemson University's
Department of English. The collection opens with a secular-humanist
essay that was written for a contest sponsored by a religious foundation. After it was completed, however, the author learned that the final judge
was a fundamentalist Christian. Needless to say, it did not win, place,
or show. The book closes with some speculations on immortality, one
aspect of which depends heavily on this essay! In between is a wildflower
garden of sacred and profane efflorescences.
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Legacy of a Southern Lady:
Anna Calhoun Clemson, 1817-1875
by Ann Ratliff Russell
Anna Calhoun Clemson was John C. Calhoun’s favorite child. After reading Ann Russell’s biography based on Anna’s letters, one finds it easy to understand why. The product of a famous family and an exceptional woman, Anna was also, as Russell ably demonstrates, very much “a southern lady.” Her story--her “life’s journey,” as Calhoun told his daughter her life would be--gives us a glimpse of an important southern family, of southern womanhood, of heartbreak and difficulty, of a nation torn apart by sectional conflict. Like Mary Chesnut’s famous diary, Anna’s letters, the crux of Russell’s study, provide us with a rich, detailed picture of southern life, both personal and public.
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The Problem in the Middle:
Liminal Space and the Court Masque
by Gregory A. Wilson
Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones enjoyed one of the most successful theatrical collaborations of Renaissance England with their spectacular court masques. But their relationship soured over a dispute as to what was most important in the masque: the poetry of the former or the set and costume design of the latter. This book attempts to resolve the debate using a theoretical term developed by Victor Turner: liminality, a condition or status between two conditions or statuses. Dr. Gregory Wilson argues that the masque is in a perpetual state of liminality, existing in the margin between performance and an observing audience. The masque is more than historically interesting; it negotiates the space between possibility and reality. This book searches for that intervening ground and the resolution of the "problem in the middle." |
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Robert Penn Warren: Genius Loves Company
ed. Mark Royden Winchell
At least since the dawn of the Romantic era, it has been assumed that the poet lives a lonely life, isolated in his garret. Nevertheless, writers are not always hermits and misanthropes. As human beings, they crave the company of other human beings; as artists they need the stimulation of other artists....Even a selective account [such as this] of Warren's most important literary associations during such a long and active life could fill a good size book.
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