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Finding Aid for the David Madden Collection, 1961-1972


MS-0276

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, June 20, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: David Madden Collection

Date/Date Range :   1961-1972

Extent: 4.0 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection contains manuscripts, articles, essays, and book reviews pertaining to Southeastern author David Madden.

Call number: MS-0276

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
David Madden donated this collection to the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library between 1964 and 1986.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], David Madden Collection, MS-0276. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of four boxes.


Biography / History

Jerry David Madden was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on July 25, 1933 to James and Emile Merritt Madden. After graduating from high school in 1951, Madden entered the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. College life, however, did not agree with him, and he soon moved to New York City and joined the Merchant Marine. Upon leaving the Marine in 1953, he joined the U.S. Army. Madden did not do well in the Army either, and after being discharged in 1955 he returned to the University of Tennessee long enough to graduate with a B.A. in education in 1957. He proceeded directly on to San Francisco State University, graduating with his M.A. in creative writing in 1958. Shortly after graduation, Madden obtained a John Golden fellowship to attend the Yale Drama School, where he studied from 1959 to 1960.

Although Madden has worked for a number of different institutions, he has spent the majority of his professional life at Louisiana State University (LSU). He began as the writer-in-residence in 1968, a position he held until 1992. He has also served LSU as the Director of the Creative Writing Program (1992-1994), Founding Director of the United States Civil War Center (1992-1999), and Donald and Velvia Crumbley Professor of Creative Writing (1999-).

Madden met his wife, Roberta Young Madden, while working for Iowa State Teacher's College's radio station. They were married in 1956, and have one son, Blake.


Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection contains manuscripts, articles, essays, and book reviews pertaining to Southeastern author David Madden.

Subject Terms

  • Authors, American -- 20th Century.
  • Authors, American -- Southern States.
Contents List
   

Series I: Articles, Essays, and Manuscripts, 1970-1972
Box   1      
Articles, Essays, and Manuscripts, 1970

Scope Note:
  1. Henry Rhine Romanticism and the hero-witness relationship in four Conrad stories. Manuscript and lecture notes.
  2. "The Stranger:" Camus Hero of the Absurd
  3. Cain's "The Postman always rings twice" and Camus' "The Stranger"
  4. The Fallacy of the Subject Dominated Novel. Manuscript and page proof.
  5. Time as organic principle in Faulkner's "The Sound and The Fury"
  6. The Agnostic Priesthood
  7. Comparison of Segregation Essays
  8. Cool no more
  9. No time to weep
  10. From real life into fiction
  11. James Joyce's "Clay"
  12. Article on a lecture given by Ayn Rand.
  13. Harlan, Kentucky/Sunday/Things at Rest. Manuscript and page proof.
  14. American theatre, without actors, without playwrights, without audience. "Cassandra Singing" on and off key / or "How not to write a play." Manuscript and page proof.
  15. James M. Cain and the Tough Guy writers of the Thirties
  16. College on Wheels: a special response to general needs.
  17. The Hero and the Witness in Wright Morris' "Field of Vision"
  18. The paradox of the need for privacy and the need for understanding in Carson McCuller's "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter."
  19. Wright Morris: "The Origin of a Species"
  20. The Charged Image in Katherine Anne Porter's "Flowering Judas." Manuscript. Published form in Studies in Short Fiction, vol. vii, no. 2, Spring 1970.
  21. A series of essays on teaching.
  22. An analysis of a passage from Henry James' "The Wings of a Dove."
  23. Notes on chapter seventeen of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights."
  24. The theatre of assault: four off Broadway plays.
  25. Gene Derwood: Cassandra Sane. Manuscript and page proof.
  26. Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony"
  27. Wright Morris' "In Orbit:" The unbroken fabric of gesture.
  28. Form and life in the novel, toward a freer approach to an elastic media. Manuscript and page proof. Ambiguity in Albert Camus "The Fall"
  29. Katherine Mansfield's "Miss Brill"
  30. James M. Cain [an essay published in the book: "The Thirties. . . " ed. by W. French.]
  31. Pauline Kael
  32. Can creative writing be taught?
  33. Article for the Courier Journal, 1970.
  34. "The Floating Tower." Manuscript; published form in the Baton Rouge Register, August 1, 1970.
  35. Ezra Pounds "Cantos" (abstract of article)
  36. Can movies tell the truth?
  37. Akira Kurosawa
  38. The violent world of Joyce Carol Oates
  39. Theatre without walls
  40. James Cain and the "Pure" Novel. Page proof.
Box   2      
Articles, Essays, and Manuscripts, 1972

Scope Note:
  1. "Harlequin's stick, Chaplin's Cane." Manuscript and notes.
  2. Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh. The Film Journal - v. 2, no. 1, 1972.
  3. Craft of the Short Story
  4. Technique: Love Stories Writer's Digest
  5. Nathaniel West: The Cheaters & the Cheated Romanticism and the Hero-Witness Relationship in Four Conrad Stories.
  6. Contemporary Writers - James M. Cain For Saint James Press
  7. Yazoo
  8. Literary Annual, 1972
Box   3      
Empty, undated
   

Series II: Reviews, Criticisms, and Manuscripts, 1961-1970
Box   4      
Reviews, Criticisms, and Manuscripts, undated

Scope Note:
  1. The Virgin Spring: Anatomy of a Mythic Image. Manuscript and Xerox copy of printed form.
  2. "Making it:" Norman Podhoretz
  3. A bill of rites, a bill of wrongs, a bill of good: Wright Morris
  4. "Stop-Time:" Frank Conroy
  5. "North toward Home:" Willie Morris
   

Sub-Series A: Book Reviews Written for the Louisville Courier-Journal,1961-1970
Box   4      
Book Reviews Written for the Louisville Courier-Journal, 1961-1970

Scope Note:
  1. "The Empty Canvas" : A. Moravia (October 10, 1961).
  2. "Writers at work," 2nd series (May 26, 1963).
  3. "Francis Bacon," C. D. Bowen (June 23, 1963).
  4. "First Person Singular" : ed. by H. Gold (July 14, 1963).
  5. "A High New House" : T. William (August 4, 1963).
  6. "Cat and Mouse" : G. Grass (August 18, 1963).
  7. "Under twenty-five" : Duke University Press (August 25, 1963).
  8. "A Significant Experience" : G. Griffin (October 6, 1963).
  9. "It's time, Lord" : F. Chappell (1963).
  10. "Prize Stories, 1963" (1963).
  11. "The rest of the story" : S. Graham (July 5, 1964).
  12. "Notebooks, 1935-1942" : A. Camus (July 28, 1964).
  13. "New Voices, 1964" ed. by H. B. Jacobs (August 2, 1964).
  14. "Nightmare county" : F. Harvey (August 30, 1964).
  15. "Best American Short Stories" : ed. by M. Foley (September 20, 1964).
  16. "Renaissance in the South" : J. M. Bradbury (November 17, 1964).
  17. "The Benefactor" : S. Sontag (1964).
  18. "The Magician's Wife" : J. M. Cain (October 23, 1965).
  19. "Time to Murder and Create. . . " : J. Aldridge (July 1966).
  20. "One eye and a measuring rod" : Le Heureaux (October 1968).
  21. "In the financial district" : Pomeroy (October 1968).
  22. "The wild old man" : MacLeish (October 28).
  23. "The white-haried Lover" : Shaperio (October 1968).
  24. "In the Mecca" : Brooks (October 1968).
  25. "James Truslow Adams" : Nevins (October 1968).
  26. "America in Crisis" : M. Levitas (June 26, 1969).
  27. "The Unembarrassed Mused" : Nye (1970).
  28. "A Movable feast" : E. Hemingway (n. d.)
  29. "A multitude of sins" : J. A. Cudden (n. d.).
  30. "Against the American Grain" : D. MacDonald (n. d.).
  31. "It's a battle field" : Graham Greene (n. d.).
  32. "The urgent West. . . " : W. Allen (n. d.).
  33. "Intro #2" : ed. by R. V. Capall (n. d.).
   

Sub-Series B: Book Reviews Written for the Richmond Leader,1963-1964
Box   4      
Book Reviews Written for the Richmond Leader, 1963-1964

Scope Note:
  1. "A precocious autobiography" : Y. Yevtushenko (September 1963).
  2. "The Garden" : Y. Berger (October 2, 1963).
  3. "Salt" : H. Gold (1963).
  4. "Love you good, see you later" : E. Walter (1964).
  5. "Early summer" : A. Sevier (n. d.).
   

Sub-Series C: Book Reviews Written for the Kentucky Labor News,1965-1967

Scope Note:
  1. "The Irregular Verb to love" : (n. d.)
  2. "Desire under the Elms" (n. d.)
  3. "Part of the truth" : G. Hicks (review for Boston Traveler, July 28, 1965).
  4. "The short stories of Ambrose Bierece" : S. C. Woodruff
  5. "By the North Gate" : J. C. Oates.
  6. Manuscript and page proof. "Fiction in the Forties" : C. E. Eisinger
  7. "Cause for wonder" : W. Morris
  8. "Do not disturb the Icon, My Autobiography" : C. Chaplin
  9. "Mignon" : James M. Cain
  10. "Second Skin" : J. Hawkes
  11. "Behold Goliath" : A. Chester
  12. "The Long Voyage" : J. Simpaun
  13. "The Barracks" : J. McGahern
  14. "The Films of Akira Kurosawa" : D. Richie
  15. "The Heart is a lonely hunter" : C. McCullers. Book Review written for Masterplots Series
  16. "What a way to go" : W. Morris
  17. "The Garden" : Y. Berger
  18. "A High New House" : T. Williams
  19. "The Benefactor" : S. Sontag
  20. "The Long Voyage" : J. Semprun
  21. "The President" : R. V. Cassell
  22. "With Shuddering Fall" : J. C. Oates
  23. "Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald" : ed. A. Turnbull
  24. "Night Comes to the Cumberlands" : A. M. Caudill
  25. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe" : E. Albre
  26. Short reviews of other books on the Cinema 1964-1967 (2 copies).
  27. "Antigone"
  28. "One Day" : Wright Morris
  29. "Ceremony in Lone Tree" : W. Morris
  30. "Requiem for a nun" : W. Faulkner
  31. "The Postman always rings twice" : James M. Cain
  32. "They shoot horses, Don't they" : H. McCoy
  33. "The death ship" : B. Traven
  34. "The Cannibal" : J. Hawkes
  35. "The Field of Vision" : Wright Morris
  36. "Essays" : G. K. Chesterton
  37. "The Pilgrim Hawk" : Wescott
  38. "The Orchard Keeper" : C. McCarthey
  39. "A Tower in Babel" (also the Golden Web): E. Barnouw
  40. "The Astronomer" : D. Betts
  41. "Openings" : W. Berry
  42. "Upon the Sweeping Flood" : J. C. Oates
  43. "The Wright Morris Reader" : W. Morris
  44. "Mary Renault" : P. Wolfe
  45. "As I walked out one midsummer morning" : L. Lee
  46. "Stories from the Transatlantic review" : ed. J. McCrindle
  47. "Grierson on Documentary" : ed. by F. Hardy
  48. "The Citizen Kane Book: Raising Kane" : Pauline Kael
  49. "Umbrella Steps" : Julie G. Gilbert
  50. "Fire Sermon" : Wright Morris
  51. "The Ogre" : Michell Tournier
  52. "The Works of Love" : Wright Morris
  53. "Love Affair: A Venetian Journal" : Wright Morris
  54. "A Happy Death" : Albert Camus
  55. "The Rest is done with Mirrors" : Carolyn See
  56. "The Unchanging Arts: New Forms for the Traditional Functions of Arts in Society" : Alan Gowans
  57. "The Nick Adams Story" : Ernest Hemingway
  58. "The Mortgaged Heart" : Carson McCullers