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4 books match the query 'Open Door'
Keeping An Open Door
Passages in a University PresidencyKeith Brodie and Leslie Banner
Duke University Press, 1996
In Keeping an Open Door, Duke chancellor (1982-1985) and president (1985-1993) Keith Brodie and coauthor Leslie Banner recount what it was like to lead Duke during an era of change for research universities across the country: how Brodie reached some of his most controversial decisions, including the “Black Faculty Initiative”; his strategy for precluding abuse in Division I athletics at Duke; how his training as a psychiatrist shaped his leadership style and influenced how he dealt with trustees, deans, faculty, and students; and the avenues of power still open to today’s university presidents. The history and feeling of life on the Duke campus during the Brodie era are vividly evoked in photographs and key speeches introduced by the former president’s personal recollections.
Keeping an Open Door provides an insider’s view of issues critical to modern research universities and will interest anyone concerned with the history and future of higher education.
The Open Door
A Passover HaggadahRabbi Sue Levi Elwell
Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2002
The Open Door
One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of "Poetry" MagazineEdited by Don Share and Christian Wiman
University of Chicago Press, 2012
When Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door. “May the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius!” For a century, the most important and enduring poets have walked through that door—William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens in its first years, Rae Armantrout and Kay Ryan in 2011. And at the same time, Poetry continues to discover the new voices who will be read a century from now.
Poetry’s archives are incomparable, and to celebrate the magazine’s centennial, editors Don Share and Christian Wiman combed them to create a new kind of anthology, energized by the self-imposed limitation to one hundred poems. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive or definitive—or even to offer the most familiar works—they have assembled a collection of poems that, in their juxtaposition, echo across a century of poetry. Adrienne Rich appears alongside Charles Bukowski; poems by Isaac Rosenberg and Randall Jarrell on the two world wars flank a devastating Vietnam War poem by the lesser-known George Starbuck; August Kleinzahler’s “The Hereafter” precedes “Prufrock,” casting Eliot’s masterpiece in a new light. Short extracts from Poetry’s letters and criticism punctuate the verse selections, hinting at themes and threads and serving as guides, interlocutors, or dissenting voices.
The resulting volume is an anthology like no other, a celebration of idiosyncrasy and invention, a vital monument to an institution that refuses to be static, and, most of all, a book that lovers of poetry will devour, debate, and keep close at hand.
Through the Open Door
A New Look at C.S. LewisDabney Adams Hart
University of Alabama Press, 1984
Unlocking the imagination, language, and vision that shaped C. S. Lewis's enduring legacy.
Through the Open Door: A New Look at C. S. Lewis offers a fresh and illuminating examination of one of the twentieth century's most beloved writers, scholars, and Christian thinkers. In this insightful study, Dabney Adams Hart moves beyond familiar assessments of C. S. Lewis as the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia to explore the intellectual foundations that shaped his work as a literary critic, educator, and defender of the Christian faith. Drawing on Lewis's essays, criticism, fiction, and apologetic writings, Hart reveals the central importance of imagination, language, myth, and meaning in Lewis's understanding of literature and human experience.
Rather than treating Lewis's diverse writings as separate endeavors, Hart demonstrates how they reflect a coherent and unified vision of truth, beauty, and morality. The book shows how Lewis used story and symbolism to address enduring questions about faith, reason, and the search for purpose in a modern world. Accessible to general readers while engaging for scholars, this volume provides valuable insight into the ideas that continue to make Lewis a significant figure in literary and religious studies. An important contribution to Lewis scholarship, Through the Open Door invites readers to discover anew the imagination and intellect behind one of the most influential Christian authors of the modern era.