Editor\u27s Preface

Draftings In represents a new direction for the University of Northern Iowa Board of Student Publications: publication of noteworthy research and writing by UNI graduate students. Draftings In seeks to penetrate the often lonely domain of the scholar with samples of what fellow scholars at UNI are about. This series is designed to print interesting essays and valuable research for the university community and for the public at large. Like all serious scholarly journals, it seeks to print what is true, new, and important in disciplines across the curriculum

Editor\u27s Note

Draftings is pleased to begin its eighth year of publication by showcasing a new format, the work of its new graphic designer, Philip M. Fass. Professor Fass, who joined the University of Northern Iowa Department of Art in 1991, brings his artistry and professional skills to the design and production side of Draftings, with the results readily seen in both the readability and beauty of the following pages. Henceforward UNI\u27s student journal of research and writing will present not only the writing of UNI undergraduate and graduate students (assisted by UNI faculty advisors), but the design contributions of UNI graphic design students, under the supervision of Professor Fass. Draftings thus moves toward its vision of empowering UNI students - as writers and as artists-and of serving as a vehicle for students to return the fruits of their learning to the community

Prefatory Note

This Draftings volume is special, for it brings together the research and writing of students from two departments of the UNI College of Business Administration: the Department of Economics and the Department of Management. The five students whose work is showcased in the following pages selected their own subjects and conducted their own research, but then shared the drafts of their work-in-progress in writing groups led by Professor Donald Cummings from the Department of Economics and Professors Daniel Power, Lynda Goulet, and Susan Rueschhoff from the Department of Management

The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction

The artistry of nonfiction is the great unexplored territory of contemporary criticism. Although the American book clubs now emphasize nonfiction and The New York Times Book Review publishes almost three times as many reviews of nonfiction as fiction, critical appreciation of this work has lagged behind. The Art of Fact is the first comprehensive examination of five of today\u27s most popular and important nonfiction artists: Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, John McPhee, Joan Didion, and Norman Mailer. By discussing contemporary literary nonfiction in relation to the early prose narrative forms and to the news/novels of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the opening chapter defines the discourse known as literary or artistic nonfiction. Dr. Lounsberry then describes four characteristics of literary nonfiction and grounds these characteristics in contemporary works.https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1469/thumbnail.jp

The Holograph Manuscript of \u3cem\u3eGreen Hills of Africa\u3c/em\u3e

Manuscript study. Details the manuscript’s circuitous route to the Alderman Library, excised criticisms of Stein, Fitzgerald, and others, structural changes, and serialization in Scribner’s magazine

Memory in \u3cem\u3eThe Garden of Eden\u3c/em\u3e

Extended comparison of The Garden of Eden to Green Hills of Africa suggesting that the novel is a fictional reprisal of the same struggles and victories found in the earlier nonfiction volume. Draws parallels in character, setting, conflict, and the thematic treatment of memory within the artistic process. Focuses largely on the African stories

Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read

Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf’s diary is her lengthiest and longest-sustained work—and her last to reach the public. In the only full-length book to explore deeply this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece, Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf’s development as a writer through her first twelve diaries—a fascinating experimental stage, where the earliest hints of Woolf’s pioneering modernist style can be seen.https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1467/thumbnail.jp

The Writer in You: A Writing Process Reader

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Diversity Begins at Home: Multiculturalism in State and Regional Studies

Diversity studies can begin in our backyards. State and regional studies can connect faculty in new ways and reveal racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity – even in locales considered homogenous

Virginia Woolf\u27s Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries & the Diaries She Read

In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf ’s diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer’s life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929—what is often considered Woolf’s modernist “golden age.” During these interwar years, Woolf penned many of her most famous works, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One’s Own. Lounsberry shows how Woolf’s writing at this time was influenced by other diarists—Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Jonathan Swift, and Stendhal among them—and how she continued to use her diaries as a way to experiment with form and as a practice ground for her evolving modernist style. Through close readings of Woolf ’s journaling style and an examination of the diaries she read, Lounsberry tracks Woolf ’s development as a writer and unearths new connections between her professional writing, personal writing, and the diaries she was reading at the time. Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Path offers a new approach to Woolf ’s biography: her life as she marked it in her diary from ages 36 to 46. -- Provided by Amazon.comhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1385/thumbnail.jp