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James Jones' recommendation of Steven R. Carter for an academic position and as a teaching lecturer abroad.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Professor of English at University of Carolina at Wilmington, University of Sassari (Italy), University of Puerto Rico and Salem State College in Massachusetts. While working on his PhD dissertation for Ohio State University on the novelist James Jones, Carter met the author and subsequently corresponded with him.

Photocopies of 14 letters from James Jones to Carter, 1972-1975, in which Jones comments at length on Carter's questions about and analyses of Jones's novels From Here to Eternity, Some Came Running, and The Thin Red Line. Jones also describes his works in progress, Viet Journal, WWII and Whistle.

Also included is a copy of Carter's PhD dissertation, "James Jones, An American Master: A Study of His Mystical, Philosophical and Artistic Views" (Ohio State University, 1975). The dissertation was published, in revised form, as James Jones: An American Literary Orientalist Master (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998). See Special Collections PS3560.O49 Z64 1998

Dates

  • Created: 1972 - 1975
  • Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1995

Conditions Governing Access

None

Extent

From the Collection: 0.33 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the UIS Archives/Special Collections Repository

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