Donald and Louie Cowan Archive
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Item A World Federation of Learning(1965-01-01T00:00:00-08:00) Cowan, DonaldItem Address to the Knights of Columbus, Ft. Worth(1966-01-23T00:00:00-08:00) Cowan, DonaldItem Address to the Lions Club of Dallas(1963-01-11T00:00:00-08:00) Cowan, DonaldItem Among School Children(1933-01-01T00:00:00-08:00) Yeats, WilliamDuring his lecture, Dr. Turner frequently referred to the poem "Among School Children" by William Butler Yeats. A handout was made available to those in attendance, and the poem is available online from the Poetry Foundation (linked here).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 Commencement 1972(1972-09-01T00:00:00-07:00) Cowan, DonaldItem Convocation 1965(1965-10-01T00:00:00-07:00) Cowan, DonaldThis convocation officially opens the tenth academic year of the University of Dallas. For the historical record, I should point out that our charter is much older than that, dating back to 1910. Under this charter the University of Dallas existed for a dozen years in a handsome, huge structure on Oak Lawn, later occupied by Jesuit High School. There are many proud graduates of that institution around who love to reminisce about the old school. But there came a time when the Vincentian Order, who ran the University, found the going difficult and turned the charter and name of the University of Dallas over to the safekeeping of the Diocese; thus it was preserved for us, a good name to grace a new institution set on a hill overlooking the city.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 Faculty Day 1966(1966-09-06T00:00:00-07:00) Cowan, DonaldThe second decade of the University of Dallas is opening with great portents. Even nature has paid us homage; for the first time in our history green grass will be on our campus at the opening of school--not only green, but mowed and trimmed, symbolizing, I suppose, our emergence from the wilderness. EVen now, the bulldozers are gathering to lay back the ground for a gymnasium, a graduate building, and the first structure deliberately designed to be useless, a tower. It is a mark of our maturity that we have resources to spare sufficient for a wholly symbolic edifice, one that expresses not so much our pride as our aspiration.Item (Fall 2017) Cowan Chair Lecture: James Matthew Wilson(2017-11-09T00:00:00-08:00) Wilson, JamesItem (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"