Research Catalog

Title

The magical campus : University of North Carolina writings, 1917-1920 / Thomas Wolfe ; edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Aldo P. Magi ; foreword by Pat Conroy.

Author

Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938

Publication

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Bruccoli, Matthew J. (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2008
• Magi, Aldo P.

Description

p. cm.

Summary

Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Aldo P. Magi, The Magical Campus collects for the first time Thomas Wolfe's earliest published work--including poems, plays, short fiction, news articles, and essays--both signed and unsigned, assembled in chronological order. Wolfe began his collegiate career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1916, when he was fifteen, with a freshman year marked by obscurity and loneliness. By his junior year he had emerged as a recognized and popular figure in campus life, a participant in organizations, clubs, and fraternities as well as the editor of several student publications. He began in these apprenticeship years his ascendancy to iconic literary status. ... Though they lack the sophistication and scale of the grand fictions that now define Wolfe's place in literature, these and others of his student publications testify to the potential he had tapped into through instruction and encouragement at Chapel Hill. --Publisher description. Signed publications -- Attributions -- Appendix A : The peace treaty -- Appendix B : Debate speeches -- Appendix C : Class stunt.

Subject

• Wolfe, Thomas 1900-1938
• Wolfe, Thomas
• Geschichte 1917-1920
• American literature > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Pat Conroy -- Preface / Matthew J. Bruccoli -- Signed publications. "A field in Flanders," 1917 ; "To France," 1917 ; "The challenge," 1918 ; "A Cullenden of Virginia," 1918 ; "To Rupert Brooke," 1918 ; "The drammer," 1919 ; "An appreciation," 1919 ; "The creative movement in writing," 1919 ; Deferred payment, 1919 ; "Russian folk song," 1919 ; The streets of Durham, 1919 ; The crisis in industry, 1919 ; Concerning honest Bob, 1920 ; "1920 says a few words to Carolina," 1920 ; The return of Buck Gavin : the tragedy of a mountain outlaw, 1919 ; The third night : a play of the Carolina mountains, 1919 ; "A previously unpublished statement by Thomas Wolfe," 1919 ; "The man who lives with his idea," 1920 -- Attributions. "Tar Heels despite defeat of last week await Virginians," 1919 ; "Ye who have been there only know," 1919 ; "Useful advice to candidates," 1920 ; "The bibliograph," 1920 -- Appendix A : The peace treaty -- Appendix B : Debate speeches -- Appendix C : Class stunt.

ISBN

9781570037344 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007049939

OCLC

183392576

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library