Preliminary Inventory of the Bernard I. Duffey Papers, 1957 - 1983

Abstract

Bernard I. Duffey worked as an author and Professor of English at Duke University. Papers include correspondence, notebooks, memoranda, minutes, committee notes, course materials, manuscript materials and research notes. Major subjects include Bernard I. Duffey, Duke University, Duke University's Department of English curriculum, the Duke University Press, Program II, and study and teaching of American literature and poetry. Materials range in date from 1957-1983. Contains restricted materials.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Bernard I. Duffey Papers, 1957 - 1983.
Creator: Duffey, Bernard I., 1917-
Extent: 1.0 Linear Feet, , 1,000 Items
Repository: University Archives, Duke University
Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult University Archives, Duke University.
Language: English.

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Collection Overview

Contains materials pertaining to the professional work of Bernard I. Duffey, author and Professor of English at Duke University. Papers include correspondence, notebooks, memoranda, minutes, committee notes, course materials, manuscript materials and research notes. Major subjects include Bernard I. Duffey, Duke University, Duke University's Department of English curriculum, the Duke University Press, Program II, and study and teaching of American literature and poetry. Materials range in date from 1957-1983. Contains restricted materials.

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Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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NOTE: Some of these materials may not be immediately accessible because they require further processing before use. Please contact University Archives staff before visiting to use this collection.

Correspondence, 1970-1972

Box 1

English Department Committees, ca. 1965-1973

Courses and Curriculum Committee

Box 1

Graduate Student - Faculty Committee

Box 1

Student evaluation of teachers, form construction materials

Box 1

Undergraduate Faculty Council of the Arts and Sciences, ca. 1972-1974

Box 1

Courses in contemporary American literature and poetry, course materials, syllabi

Box 1

Program II

Applications

Box 1

General advisory committee materials

Box 1

Duke University Press board, ca. 1981

Box 1

Research notebooks

Poetics of Nature

Box 1

Encounter and Irresolution

Box 1

Some Elements of Narrative, unpublished manuscript, 1981

Box 1

Historical Note

Bernard I. Duffey received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and his master's and doctoral degrees from Ohio State University. Duffey began his career teaching at Michigan State University and the University of Minnesota.

In 1963, he joined the Duke University English Department, where he taught American poetry and contemporary American literature. He received a Fulbright scholarship to teach at the University of Copenhagen in 1970, and was also a visiting professor at the University of California at Irvine. Duffey was chair of the English Department Courses and Curriculum Committee and served on a variety of committees and boards at Duke University: the Committee on Teacher Evaluation and Learning Process, Program II Committee, and the Duke University Press Editorial Advisory Board.

Duffey's writings include: Modern American Literature (1951), The Chicago Renaissance in American Letters (1956), Poetry in America : Expression and its Values in the Times of Bryant, Whitman, and Pound (1978), Chicago's Public Wits; a Chapter in the American Comic Spirit (1983), and A Poetry of Presence: the Writing of William Carlos Williams (1986). One of his essays was published in The Comic Imagination in American Literature (1973), a collection about the sources of humor in literature.

Bernard I. Duffey, professor emeritus of English, died in 1994.