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  W. B. Yeats's "A Vision": Explications and Contexts

  W. B. Yeats

  W. B. Yeats's "A Vision": Explications and Contexts is the first volume of essays devoted to A Vision and the associated system developed by W. B. Yeats and his wife, George. A Vision is all-encompassing in its stated aims and scope, and it invites a wide range of approaches—as demonstrated in the essays collected here, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The first six essays present explications of broader themes in A Vision itself: the system's general principles; incarnate life and the Faculties; discarnate life and the Principles; how Yeats relates his own work to other philosophical approaches; and his consideration of the historical process. A further three essays include an examination of the elusive Thirteenth Cone, a consideration of astrological features in the automatic script, and a view of the poetry within A Vision. The final five essays look at contextual themes, whether of collaboration and influence—between husband, wife, and spirits, or with another poet—or the gender perspective within these interrelations, the historical context of Golden-Dawn occultism or the broader political context of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s. Throughout, the different contributors take a variety of stances with regard to texts and the automatic script. This is an important contribution to Yeats scholarship in general and a landmark in studies of A Vision.

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  Growing Up Cartoonist in the Baby-Boom South: A Memoir and Cartoon Retrospective

  Kate Salley Palmer

  Kate Salley Palmer was an inadvertent trailblazer. In the early 1970s, she was a freelance artist living in Clemson, South Carolina. Then the nationally televised Watergate hearings took hold of her, and she found herself drawing cartoon after cartoon about the scandal, whose latest developments she followed as religiously as other people follow soap operas. She started selling a few of the cartoons she couldn't stop drawing to whatever local newspapers would buy them. In 1975, The Greenville News hired her part-time. She was, it turned out, that paper's first-ever political cartoonist. By the next year, the News was running her cartoons regularly, making her South Carolina’s first full-time political cartoonist—and, she discovered, one of only two women then employed as full-time political cartoonists in all of North America.

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  Women and Clemson University: Excellence—Yesterday and Today

  Jerome V. Reel

  According to Clemson University Chief Public Affairs Officer Cathy Sams, "It's time to tell the story of women at Clemson, maybe way past time. After all, you could say that Clemson owes its origin to a woman. The estate that Thomas Green Clemson bequeathed to South Carolina to found a college came into his possession through his wife, Anna Calhoun." However, after "the Board of Trustees decided in 1954 to make Clemson a civilian, coeducational college,…women did not arrive in large numbers until that 'sea change' took place—more than 60 years after the school opened its doors. Current President James F. Barker has said that each time Clemson has made such a major change, it has emerged as a stronger institution." This book recounts the history leading up to the "sea change" of 1954 and profiles the subsequent accomplishments of women students, faculty, staff, and administrators at the university.

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  Omi and the Christmas Candles: A Tale of Nine Christmases during the Nazi Era

  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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  Psychoanalysis and the Bloomsbury Group

  Douglas W. Orr, M.D.

  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 from CUDP.

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  Virginia Woolf's Illnesses

  Douglas W. Orr, M.D.

  Psychoanalyst Douglass Orr declares that his book about Virginia Woolf "is not a psychobiography." Instead, he offers a number of diagnostic possibilities in psychiatry based on extensive records that we have of Virginia Woolf's "life history, both in her own words and in the reminiscences of others." His general thesis is that, "however neurotic Virginia may have been, her usual, day-to-day self was within normal limits. The normal self was, even so, extremely vulnerable to traumata in the area of separations and losses, on the one hand, and, on the other, to direct blows to her self-esteem." Dr. Orr interprets Virginia's five or six experiences of "madness" to be "separate and distinct illnesses having quite different proximate causes. This view differs from the common assumption that Virginia had a single, life-long psychiatric disease, such as manic-depressive disorder, or manic depression.

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  Integration with Dignity: A Celebration of Harvey Gantt's Admission to Clemson

  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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  Literature and Digital Technologies: W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, and William Gass

  Y. B. Yeats

  Four international writers are examined by seven scholars who consider the effects of digital technologies on the idea of what a book is and on what constitutes literature. When writing and reading change as experiences, the tools used to research and teach literature also change. How does the "digital imperative" compel adjustments in academic programs? How might electronic technologies redefine an English department or an academic press? These topics, and others, are investigated in this timely book.

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  Melville's Use of "The Rebellion Record" in his Poetry

  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.

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  Tales of Clemson, 1936-1940

  Arthur V. Williams, M.D.

  This memoir of Clemson College life, from matriculation in 1936 to graduation in 1940, is a sequel to the author's recollection of early youth in Charleston, South Carolina. Tales of Clemson 1936-1940 vividly recreates the undergraduate days before the outbreak of war in Europe and the Pacific. President Emeritus Walter Cox (Class of 1939) and distinguished journalist Earl Mazo have given the book its foreword and postscript, respectively. Dr. Williams recalls Clemson's own luminaries, mentors, and interesting personalities from a bygone era.