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  Brander Matthews Collection at Bartleby.com
The short-story differs essentially from all the longer forms of fiction because its brevity forces the writer to confine himself to a single one of the three elements which the author of a novel may combine at his pleasure.
Matthews was a well-known figure in theatrical and literary circles in Paris and London as well as in New York City.
He began to teach at Columbia Univ. in 1891 and in 1900 was appointed the first professor of dramatic literature in any American university.
www.bartleby.com /people/Matthews.html   (233 words)

  
 Columbia News ::: 'The Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum at Columbia University,' through Jan. 27
Named for James Brander Matthews (1852¨C1929), the nation's first professor of drama, the exhibition celebrates the history of one of the oldest theater collections in the United States.
Appointed to the Columbia College faculty in 1892, Matthews began collecting theater-related memorabilia in 1911, convinced that the only way to learn about drama was through first-hand acquaintance with artifacts, images, and texts of the theatrical past.
Matthews then donated his own collection of theatrical memorabilia to the University to support the burgeoning study of world-wide theater history.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/05/12/brander_matthews_exhibit.html   (281 words)

  
 Matthews, Brander Criticism and Essays
Matthews is best known as one of the most popular and influential American literary critics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Although in the past he had championed contemporary authors, he became reluctant to grant the new writers canonical credentials and was alarmed by their modernism; they, in turn, along with their influential advocates, dismissed him as an academic and reactionary remnant of a genteel, moribund Victorianism.
His early years were shaped by his family's immense wealth: Matthews was raised to pursue the career of a millionaire, to be a gentleman able to supervise the family fortune.
www.enotes.com /twentieth-century-criticism/matthews-brander   (851 words)

  
 Matthews, Brander - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
MATTHEWS, BRANDER [Matthews, Brander] (James Brander Matthews), 1852-1929, American author and teacher, b.
His gift of model stage sets, costumes, and books is now the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum at Columbia.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Matthews, Brander" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-matthews.html   (275 words)

  
 Matthews James Brander - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Matthews James Brander - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Matthews, James Brander (1852-1929), teacher and writer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
encarta.msn.com /Matthews_James_Brander.html   (78 words)

  
 Brander Matthews Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Brander Matthews.” [Second Letter] “[Indistinct name] The publishers has sent me your book -- and I'm going to read it all at once.
Influential figure in theater and literary circles in New York and Paris, taught at Columbia University and was the first professor of dramatic literature in an American university.
Matthews was a founding member of various literary clubs.
www.bookgarden.com /authors/M-Matthews.html   (232 words)

  
 The Novel, The Novelette, And The Short Story
It is customary at the present day to use the word "short-story," which Professor Brander Matthews has suggested spelling with a hyphen to indicate that it has a special and technical significance.
The Formula of Brander Matthews.—From the very outset, the currency of Poe's short-stories was inter-national; and his concrete example in striving for totality of impression exerted an immediate influence not only in America but even more in France.
Matthew Arnold, in a well-known sonnet, spoke of Sophocles as a man "who saw life steadily and saw it whole"; and if we judge the novelist and the writer of short-stories by their attitudes toward life, we may say that they divide this verse between them.
www.oldandsold.com /articles18/fiction-10.shtml   (3769 words)

  
 Americanisms And Briticisms
Matthews' wrath, or his seeming wrath—for it is impossible to suppose that he is really angry—grows redder as he proceeds.
Matthews' determination to call Britons foreigners, that is his matter, but feelings of this kind, to do any harm, must be both reciprocal and general.
Matthews has no mind for reciprocity ; he advises Cousin Sam to have nothing to do with John Bull's second-rate performances, but he feels a very pardonable pride in the fact that John Bull more and more reads his cousin's short stories and other things of-the kind.
www.oldandsold.com /articles33n/books-18.shtml   (1119 words)

  
 An Unpublished Reminiscence of James Fenimore Cooper
Through its acknowledged link with the Matthews text, Mather's reminiscence can be seen to reflect not only the extensive evaluation of Cooper (and other American literary figures) being published in the 1880s, but the terms of that evaluation as well.
Brander Matthews' essay, as we have seen, appeared in 1889, Cooper's centenary.
(Matthews, "Centenary", 798.) It should be added that Matthews, in turn, echoes the Lounsbury biography, which he mentions with praise.
external.oneonta.edu /cooper/articles/other/1989other-evans.html   (3086 words)

  
 The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt and Brander Matthews by Oliver, Lawrence J., ed.
The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt and Brander Matthews by Oliver, Lawrence J., ed.
From 1888 to 1919, Theodore Roosevelt maintained a steady stream of correspondence with the flamboyant scholar and critic Brander Matthews.
He is the author of Brander Matthews, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Politics of American Literature.
utpress.org /a/searchdetails.php?jobno=T00277   (285 words)

  
 usOperaweb - Columbia University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The theater school associated with Brander Matthews Hall, led by Dr. Smith, taught everything connected to putting on a show, including building scenery, making costumes and running a box office.
Brander Matthews Hall presented twelve world premieres of new American operas, and the Ditson Fund underwrote four world premieres at other locations.
Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All, which premiered at Brander Matthews Hall on May 7, 1947, was his second collaboration with Gertrude Stein, and her final work for the theater.
www.usoperaweb.com /2002/september/columbia2.htm   (2144 words)

  
 The Hindu : Education Plus Thiruvananthapuram : Being original is the best policy
Be very careful during research to avoid anything that might give rise to the impression that one is plagiarising or being dishonest in any other way.
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947, Nobel Peace Prize 1931) and Brander Matthews (1852 - 1929, Literary critic) were discussing stories.
Matthews: "In the case of the first man to use an anecdote there is originality, in the case of the second there is plagiarism; with the third, it is lack of originality; and with the fourth it is drawing from a common stock."
www.thehindu.com /edu/2006/11/07/stories/2006110700070200.htm   (896 words)

  
 Matthews, Brander. 1907. The Short-Story (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Fiction > Brander Matthews > The Short-Story
Note to The Fall of the House of Usher
Edited with Introduction and Notes by Brander Matthews, LL.D. With a selection of 23 short stories from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century, Brander Matthews—a pioneer of dramatic scholarship and professor at Columbia University—demonstrates, “the slow evolution of this literary species through the long centuries of advancing civilization.”
www.bartleby.com.cob-web.org:8888 /195   (175 words)

  
 Twain the Greatest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) was the guest of honor at a Columbia University tea held yesterday afternoon in Earl Hall.
Brander Matthews earlier in the day, while lecturing tto his class in American literatur, called Mr.
Matthews declared that there is no man even in England who can be compared to Mark Twain as a master of the language.
www.twainquotes.com /19060221.html   (129 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Brander Matthews
Brander Matthews (1852-1929) was among the most influential American scholars and literary critics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
His An Introduction to the Study of American Literature, initially published in 1896, was one of the first and most popular textbooks on American literature; it went through several editions and sold more than a quarter million copies.
Though often cast as a “genteel” literary critic, Matthews championed the fiction of Mark Twain, W. Howells, and other American writers of the realist school.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2995   (292 words)

  
 usOperaweb - Columbia University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Gathering outside the Brander Matthews Hall for the latest eagerly anticipated world premiere opera production, students could see the lights in the small office on the 6th floor of the brownstone across the street on 117th, where Béla Bartók had labored away in a position created for him by the first Ditson Fund grant.
Luening, a composer whose background included directing operas and musicals and even a short stint as actor and stage manager, was reluctant to accept the post, since it came with a salary of $5,000, a reduction of $500 from his current position at Bennington College in Vermont.
The planners of Brander Matthews Hall had a specific vision for their theater: a small auditorium where students could gain the maximum theatrical experience by playing to a small audience numerous times, instead of to a large audience once or twice, and which would be at least “partially experimental.”
www.usoperaweb.com /2002/september/columbia.htm   (2489 words)

  
 Matthews, Lot 31, PEI
A source in PEI reported that there are at least three distinct groups of Matthews families in the Alberton, PEI area.
It has not been determined if the Matthews family who settled on Lot 31 is connected to these groups.
All Matthews names have been listed below with the hope of establishing more links as people respond with additional information.
www.redrivernorth.com /Matthews.html   (99 words)

  
 Matthews, Brander -- Matthews, Brander: in Cornell University's Making of America
Matthews, Brander -- Matthews, Brander: in Cornell University's Making of America
Matthews, Brander, The New Member of the Club.
Matthews, Brander, The Royal Marine: An Idyl of Narragansett Pier.
moa.cit.cornell.edu /moa/browse.author/m.71.html   (48 words)

  
 Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum
Named for James Brander Matthews (1852–1929), the nation’s first professor of drama, the exhibition celebrates the history of one of the oldest theater collections in the United States.
The Dramatic Museum was housed in Low Library at Columbia until it was closed in 1971; since then the collection has been located in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum at Columbia University exhibition will be open to the public from September 30, 2005 through February 17, 2006.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/news/exhibitions/2005/2005-09-22.brander_matthews.html   (452 words)

  
 Matthews, Brander, ed. 1914. The Oxford Book of American Essays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Nonfiction > Brander Matthews > The Oxford Book of American Essays
The charm of the essay lies in the fact that it is not formal, that it may be whimsical in its point of departure, and capricious in its ramblings after it has got itself under way.
From Franklin and Emerson to Whitman and Roosevelt, Brander Matthews expertly selected 32 essays on topics literary, political and humorous spanning over a century of this form’s development in America.
www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/109   (276 words)

  
 Children of the Code - Background Research Notes: Theodore Roosevelt
He issued orders today to Public Printer Stillings that hereafter all messages from the President and all other documents emanating from the White House shall be printed in accordance with the recommendation of the spelling reform committee headed by Brander Matthews, professor of English in Columbia University.
Lawrence J. Oliver is an expert on Brander Matthew, and therefore on spelling reform.
Understanding the central role TR played in this (and apparently even more so the strategies implicit in how Brander Matthews encouraged him) is a very important area of focus for our series.
www.childrenofthecode.org /code-history/roosevelt.htm   (2619 words)

  
 Matthews James Brander - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Matthews’s boyhood was spent mainly in New York.
Matthews, Brander (quotations): Education: A gentleman need not know…
Help with Spanish, French, German, and Italian homework.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Matthews_James_Brander.html   (105 words)

  
 Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Collection:Recorded Sound Section--Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound ...
Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Collection:Recorded Sound Section--Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
One of the most fascinating and eclectic collections in the division is the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Collection.
A series of private, experimental, and radio broadcast recordings made at Columbia University, principally during the 1930s, the Brander Matthews Collection comprises a wide range of spoken arts, including documentaries, speeches, interviews, and prose and poetry readings.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/awhhtml/awrs9/matthews.html   (136 words)

  
 Infoplease Search: matthew
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 TIME.com: Waste* -- Apr. 28, 1924 -- Page 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Recently Brander Matthews retired as Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University, and became Professor Emeritus, terminating an active association of 30-odd years.
Genial, kindly, brilliant, gay, stimulating, he is all things a literary gentleman should be.
(James) Brander Matthews was born at New Orleans, Feb. 21, 1852.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,718282-4,00.html   (624 words)

  
 MFA in Dramaturgy - Academic Programs - Theatre Arts - Division of Performing Arts - The University of Iowa
At Iowa, the tradition of new play dramaturgy extends back to the founding of the department in the 1930s.
Along with such figures as Columbia's Brander Matthews and Yale's George Pierce Baker, Iowa's first Chair of Theatre Arts, E.C. Mabie, pioneered the development of drama as an independent discipline in which scholars and artists could train to create and lead the theatre of the future.
Under the leadership of Oscar Brownstein in the 1970s, the MFA Program in Playwriting offered one of the country’s first courses in Dramaturgy, through which MFA candidates in Playwriting served as dramaturgs on department productions of classic plays.
www.uiowa.edu /~theatre/programs/dramaturgy/dramaturgyinfo.htm   (1498 words)

  
 Bad Writing
Back in 1912, the critic Brander Matthews damned the scholarship of his day for its "endless quotations and endless citations and endless references," its "entangled" facts, its shameless taste for "interminable controversy over minor questions," its careless assumption that every reader had an "acquaintance with the preceding stages of the discussion."
But though it still commits these faults more often than not, bad academic writing nowadays has become something worse than an aesthetic offense.
Let us organize and combine a party to pursue truth and new thought, let us call it the liberal party, and let us all stick to each other, and back each other up.
www-english.tamu.edu /pers/fac/myers/bad_writing.html   (1873 words)

  
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BRANDER INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SHOOTING HB DJ Brander THE SPORTING ROUGHSHOOT 1989 1ST ED.
VGC/DJ 1893 DECISION OF THE COURT, A Comedy/Brander Matthews
INGELA BRANDER Vocal and Sax Alto on ELECTRECORD 45 RPM
www.platinumplusproductions.com /brander.html   (124 words)

  
 The fortunes of formalism by David Yezzi
f the three books currently on my night table—a flaking early edition of the poems of Abraham Cowley, a coffee-table book on wooden boats, and a book from 1911 entitled A Study of Versification, by Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University—most worrisome is the book on versification.
As Brander Matthews himself once famously said: “A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should have at least forgotten it.” Prosody is not far behind Latin in terms of its obsolescence, even within the specialized discipline of poetry.
It has shown itself to be the best instrument of the essential energy of the English-speaking peoples in their loftiest flights of imagination.” Go back to the text.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/23/apr05/yezzi.htm   (2418 words)

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