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Item Athenaeum: Frost and Ransom (Side A)(1998-02-11T00:00:00-08:00) Cowan, LouiseSide A of cassette tape. Recording 1 of 2.Item Athenaeum: Frost and Ransom (Side B)(1998-02-11T00:00:00-08:00) Cowan, LouiseItem Athenaeum: Yeats(1997-01-01T00:00:00-08:00) Dupree, Robert; Cowan, LouiseItem Brothers Karamazov Lecture(2021-01-18T13:55:11-08:00) Cowan, LouiseThe Brothers Karamazov represents Dostoevskyâ s solution to the search that his entire life represents. As an educated man, an intellectual, even in a backward Russia, he was preoccupied with the question of Godâ s existenceâ and even more, with the question of Christâ s redemption of the human. He had tried to depict what the follower of Christ must be like throughout his writings, beginning with the negative Notes from Underground, going on to locate Christian faith in Sonya, a prostitute, who reads to the murderer Raskolnikov the story of Lazarus. He tried the image of a perfectly good man in The Idiot, only to find that goodness as we can conceive of it is not only insufficient but turns rapidly to something negative and destructive.Item Crime and Punishment Lecture(2021-01-18T13:55:14-08:00) Cowan, LouiseThe three scenes I want us to look at during the course of my talk this morning are: Raskolnikovâ s confession to Sonya; Svidrigailovâ s last night alive; and the Epilogueâ Raskolnikov in Siberia.Item Dostoevsky and Notes from the Underground(2021-01-18T13:55:16-08:00) Cowan, LouiseSecond Portion of Notes from Underground. The second portion begins with a memory of himself 16 years before, when he was 24. He is certain of his unattractiveness and so to compensate, prides himself on his intelligence. He is quick to take affront; and one day, an officer in a tavern picks him up and sets him aside without a word. For a long time he studies how to be revenged for such an insult. Frequents the place where officers walk, but finds himself giving way on the sidewalk whenever he encounters this particular officer. One day, however, he braces himself to hold his ground and in fact shoulders the other fellow off the sidewalk. The man does not seem to notice, but our hero believed that he was simply covering up and considers that he has had a great victory.Item Dostoevsky and the Disease of Rationalism(1989-01-01T00:00:00-08:00) Cowan, LouiseItem Dostoevsky lecture for IPS(2021-01-18T13:55:19-08:00) Cowan, LouiseDostoevsky was the first writer to discover that the novel could be an instrument of discoveryâ even a kind of prophecy. This is to say that he discovered the novel as a mode of poetryâ and in a poem, form and content cannot be separated: the way in which something is said is as much constitutive of the meaning as is the content. Dostoevsky once wrote that for the novelist, the germ, the insight, came firstâ and one might call that the poem. Then there was the work of constructing the work of art itself, which one might call the novel. Yet the novelist who is also a poet views his potential work with the eyes of his entire culture; there is no way for a writer to write like Homer, say, or Dante in our timeâ or in Dostoevskyâ s.Item Dostoevsky's Devils(2004-03-05T00:00:00-08:00) Cowan, LouiseItem Dostoevsky's Iconic Method(2021-01-18T13:55:22-08:00) Cowan, LouiseIn addressing this topicâ Dostoevskyâ s iconic methodâ I am pursuing a an approach that I have long thought aboutâ one that I have suggested to several of my students and from whom I have then benefited. Dr. Dennis Slattery, who now teaches at Pacifica University in Santa Barbara, has published an essay on The Icon and the Spirit of Comedy in Dostoevskyâ s Possessed; Several of my students wrote papers on the ikon for a conference a conference we held a few years back, when we had an icon show at UD, at which the work of traditional ikon painters was presented, Lyle Novinski spoke, and my entire Russian novel class took part. So, though, the topic is one that I have not really gone into deeply enough, it is one that I have long consideredâ that I have discussed with colleagues and students in that shared mode of thought that we have been espousing at UD.Item (Fall 2021) Lyric and the Gestation of Poetic Language(2021-10-08T00:00:00-07:00) Turner, FrederickFrederick Turner's lecture, "Lyric and the Gestation of Poetic Language", delivered for the Cowan Chair Lecture Series in Fall 2021. The PDF file has hyperlinks added to key terms or concepts to aid the reader in exploring these ideas further.Item (Fall 2021) Poster: Lyric and the Gestation of Poetic Language(2021-10-08T00:00:00-07:00)Poster for the Fall 2021 Cowan Chair Lecture "Lyric and the Gestation of Poetic Language"Item Frost and Yeats (Part 1)(2003-02-04T00:00:00-08:00) Cowan, LouiseItem Igor Lecture 1992(1992-01-01T00:00:00-08:00) Cowan, LouiseThe first question that I want us to begin with this evening is: What is literature (poetry)? What has its function always been? What kind of truth does it convey? It is not simply the expression of an emotion, nor is it mere entertainment, nor autobiographical confession, nor therapy. Nor is it information, of the sort that we consider historical studies to give us. We do not gain "information" from the Beowulf, for instance, though it is based on physical details from its own time But it surmounts those details to speak of human hopes and fears. It is a formed vision of life, seeing in the life of the hero Beowulf a model not of our outward actions but of an inward one: a force, an urge, a thrust within our psyches in a region to which we do not ordinarily have access: a region of that primordial oneness which was the origin of the human race, so that differences of sex or age or race fall away from our consciousness when we reach this place--and we reach it only through prayer, love, and poetry. And though prayer and love enable us to grow in grace, poetry enables us to grow into culture--into that harmonious and virtuous sense of community that shapes all good societies.Item Igor Lecture 2000(2000-01-01T00:00:00-08:00) Cowan, LouiseItem Meeting 1: Introduction and English Lyric(2021-08-26T00:00:00-07:00) Cowan, BainardAt the first meeting of the Fall 2021 Cowan Archive Seminar Series, Dr. Bainard Cowan provided an introduction to the Lyric genre and led a discussion of several poems.Item Meeting 3: The Transition of Society from a Myth of Fact to a Myth of Imagination(2021-02-25T00:00:00-08:00) Cowan, BainardDr. Cowan led a discussion about Donald Cowan's vision of a new age. In addition to the eponymous first chapter (pages 21-32) of Unbinding Prometheus, the attendees were asked to read a set of unpublished essays from the Archive's holdings: â The Post-Technological Age,â â The New Equality,â â The Promethean Technology,â â Myth as Transformation of Conflict,â "Science and Poetry"Item Meeting 4: The Role of Secondary Education and the Principalâ s Art of Leadership(2021-03-11T00:00:00-08:00) MacMillan, Claudia; Cowan, BainardDr. Claudia MacMillan is Founding Director of the Louise and Donald Cowan Center for Education at the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture; she is editor of and contributor to What is a Teacher? Remembering the Soul of Education Through Classic Literature; and she has extensive experience in both high school classrooms and administrative offices as well as at the university level. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Dallas and is an alumna of the 1989-1990 Summer Institutes for Teachers at the Dallas Institute. The readings for this meeting were all taken from Donald Cowan's Unbinding Prometheus. Preface (pp. vii-x) Introduction: Between Two Ages (pp. 1-18) Chapter 2: A Spectre Of The Past: Renouncing Faust (pp. 33-49) Chapter 3: The Perennial Future: Learning with Prospero (pp. 50-67) Dr. MacMillan also made reference to Chapters 1 and 4-6, which were assigned earlier in the series.Item Meeting 5: French Symbolist Lyric(2021-10-21T00:00:00-07:00) Dupree, RobertThe final seminar in the Lyric Poetry series, featuring Dr. Robert Scott Dupree of the University of Dallas. See the link below under "additional files" for the handout of poems which was distributed at this seminar.Item Psalms and the Song of Songs(2003-04-01T00:00:00-08:00) Cowan, Louise