Jesse Stuart: Essays on His Work

J. R. LeMaster and Mary Washington Clarke have here assembled a distinguished collection of essays on the works of Jesse Stuart. A prolific writer, Stuart is at home in many different genres; his poetry, his short stories, his novels, and his autobiographical writings are widely known, and his books for children have enjoyed great popularity. Despite the variety of his work and despite the diversity of the ten essayists\u27 points of view, there emerges from this volume a consistent view of a man whose close contact with the land and the people of his region has produced a distinctive body of writing. H. Edward Richardson offers us a glimpse of Jesse Stuart at home, freely and earnestly discussing his work and relating it to the scenes about him. This essay forms a background for the other contributors\u27 discussions of Stuart\u27s humor, his use of folklore, and his persistent agrarian point of view. This, the first collection of all new critical essays on Stuart\u27s writings, succeeds admirably in what criticism is supposed to do-making more accessible the important work of a significant writer. J. R. LeMaster is director of the American Studies Program at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Mary Washington Clarke is emeritus professor of English and folklore, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1025/thumbnail.jp

Jesse Stuart On Education

Could a man who never earned a master\u27s degree tell the nation\u27s teachers and administrators how to run their schools? Jesse Stuart, who had a life-long love of education, did just that. From Stuart\u27s autobiographical works, J .R. LeMaster has chosen selections that demonstrate his philosophy of learning and teaching, and his philosophy of life. The selections establish a loose chronology of events in Stuart\u27s lifelong education and describe his experience as preschooler, student, teacher, and school administrator. This multiple perspective, LeMaster suggests, is essential to understanding the process we call education—a process Jesse Stuart located in nature, believing that human beings are first and foremost natural beings and only incidentally cultural beings. That is, while we belong to an order of human beings, we also belong to a larger order—a universe of living things. In his general introduction LeMaster discusses Stuart\u27s life and philosophy, providing the reader with a backdrop against which to study selections from Beyond Dark Hills, The Thread That Runs So True, The Year of My Rebirth, God\u27s Oddling, Mr. Gallion\u27s School, To Teach, To Love, and other Stuart works. Each excerpt is illumined by LeMaster\u27s discussion of its place in Stuart\u27s philosophy of education. Those concerned with the apparent breakdown of the American educational system will find much to consider in LeMaster\u27s discussion of the implications of Stuart\u27s views on education. He contends that the present crisis in our schools stems from an inadequate philosophy for living and that Jesse Stuart, who believed education was a natural development, knew as much all along. J.R. LeMaster is professor of English and director of American studies at Baylor University.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1060/thumbnail.jp

Improved detection of long-range residual dipolar couplings in weakly aligned samples by Lee-Goldburg decoupling of homonuclear dipolar truncation

Homonuclear (1)H residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) truncate the evolution of transverse (1)H magnetization of weakly aligned molecules in high-resolution NMR experiments. This leads to losses in sensitivity or resolution in experiments that require extended (1)H evolution times. Lee-Goldburg decoupling schemes have been shown to remove the effects of homonuclear dipolar couplings, while preserving chemical shift evolution in a number of solid-state NMR applications. Here, it is shown that the Lee-Goldburg sequence can be effectively incorporated into INEPT- or HMQC-type transfer schemes in liquid state weak alignment experiments in order to increase the efficiency of the magnetization transfer. The method is applied to the sensitive detection of (1)H(N)-(13)C long-range RDCs in a three-dimensional HCN experiment. As compared to a conventional HCN experiment, an average sensitivity increase by a factor of 2.4 is obtained for a sample of weakly aligned protein G. This makes it possible to detect 170 long-range (1)H(N)-(13)C RDCs for distances up to 4.9 angstroms