#bibliograph

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, September 25, we celebrate the birthday of acclaimed American author William Faulkner (1897-1962). Faulkner was born and spent most of his life in Mississippi. Influenced by his family history and the region of the American South where he resided, Faulkner began writing at a young age and published his first novel, Soldiers’ Pay, by his 29th birthday. Faulkner went on to become a prolific and well-received writer, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1954 and 1962, and has been called “the greatest artist the South has produced.”

Among our many Faulkner materials, we are excited to share this facsimile of Faulkner’s unpublished one-act play The Marionettes. The play has been described as a symbolist drama that poetically explores themes of desire, sexuality, growing old, life, and love. Faulkner wrote The Marionettes in 1920 during his association with the drama group at the University of Mississippi. The play was handwritten, illustrated, and bound by Faulkner and is considered a showy display of a young man early in his career.  

Our facsimile of the original manuscript was published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia in 1975 and printed in a limited edition of 126 copies at the Garamond Press in Baltimore, Maryland. It was created in memory of Linton R. Massey who was a figurehead of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and assembled and donated much of the University of Virginia’s Faulkner Collection through his personal friendship with William Faulkner.

-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

[the-sea-anemone]

the environmental storytelling of my university's instructions for submitting your thesis to the thesis/dissertation repository is kind of hilarious. every step is like here's what you enter in this box. AND HERE'S WHAT YOU SHOULD NOT UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES ENTER IN THIS BOX

[finnlongman]

Whatever your preferences for referencing, I think we have to agree that the book I am currently reading has the worst system:

E-book with limited downloads (e.g. you can only have a certain number of pages) broken into individual chapters/essays

References and notes are endnotes (including commentary, not just refs!), at the end of the entire book, not the individual chapters that you would download individually, so you need to download the Notes section separately which uses up 28 of your allotted pages

The end notes are in author-date format, so you also need to download the Works Cited section, using up a further 30 of your permitted pages, otherwise they mean nothing

Yes this means you need to have three separate PDFs open to check one reference

Why

[sunfoxfic]

please tell me I have some writing studies followers who will find this as funny as I do

[rhianna]

Archive

I take my archive seriously.

I’m a licensed librarian and I create my tumblr blog for fun 😎😉

rhianna.tumblr.com/archive

[misscrawfords]

Married at First Sight Jane Austen AU

[ajdumpsherbrain]

when Taylor Swift said;

you were the king of my heart, and now I can’t find the pulse

I used to step into the daylight, now I just sit in the dark

mending all my gashes, but that’s the kind of heartbreak time could never mend

I hoped it’ll never end, but I’ve seen this film before

now you’ve lost me, when I’d hoped I’d never lose you

and when she said;

for you, I’d never walk Cornelia Street again

[treecakes]

anyways all i’m doing for this shift is uploading stuff and i’m tired of it 😭 i want to go back to bed

[afrenchaugurey]

I was supposed to work this morning, instead I began another OS for the young Newt series...

And what was supposed to be a short introduction (as the series is centered around Newt and his grandparents, not his parents) is already up to 2K... But I love baby Newt 🤷 (Yes, this is my only defense)

Unfortunately, her husband was right, and Evalyn began seeking Newt, who, of course, didn’t suspect that with the return of summer weather came the inescapable social events. As often always, the showering process turned out to be challenging, and accompanied with disapproval. 

“Don’t want a shower Mum… It hurts.”

“Foal, we have to. Your father’s reception begins in one hour. We don’t have time for a bath.” Newt pouted, a sound midway between a grinding and a moan coming out of his throat. 

“Love, what about … let me think … we add some aquatic glow-worms to the water ?” asked Evalyn. 

She took her wand to gush a few of them, imprisoned in little drops of water. In an instant, the young wizard’s focus redirected to the droplets whose shape changed with the moves of the creatures inside. The latter gleamed with a golden-brown light, which sometimes flickered. The child, flabbergasted, looked at them with his head tilted, as if he wanted to memorize them forever. Fascinated, he raised his hand to one of the magical bulbs made of water, which silently blew to pieces, resulting in a myriad of sparkling particles which deposited on his body, splashing him in the process. In the dimness of the room, only lit up by a few candles, the fragments became flecks, glistening like the bioluminescent phytoplankton described in one of his grandparents' books. If he first pulled his hand back as if he had burnt himself, he began after that to explode several water bubbles in a row.

[aphrogeneias]

there's a file in my notes app titled "almost famous, daisy jones and the six, and the myth of the rockstar" in which i use my long forgotten academic skills to write the most self indulgent essay that no one will ever read

[lil-melody-moon]

Today's exam was a disaster, I'm just fucking done with everything

[what-even-is-sleep]

I am so dumb bc i just got so sad that my screen wasn't loaded and sat at my computer trying not to cry before realizing that I had searched 'blank white square' yesterday and opened the image on its own tab to undistract myself anyways i've been looking at this for the past 10 minutes now

[murderballadeer]

mla vs chicago vs apa citations is a pointless debate bc everyone can just agree that the worst citation style is saa. non-anthropology majors will never know

[aliengirl]

Just finish, a seminar, 65 slides total.....

[tardis--dreams]

Me: Dear Professor, do you happen to have the article you recommended for me, so you could share it with me since I unfortunately don't have any way to access it otherwise

Professor: Yes, of course, here's the link where you can freely access it :)

The link: your institution does not have access to this content :) you can give us 58 dollars though, then it's all yours :)

[wizardfvcker]

ive been fucking around trying to write the conclusions for my thesis for approximately three weeks i need to be shot in the street