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Crane portraits
Are any portraits of Stephen Crane in the public domain?
Roy M. Pitkin, r.pitkin@earthlink.net
5/24/08 |
All photographs, drawings, and paintings of Stephen Crane are in the public domain. Nevertheless, individual images may be owned by institutions and private collectors, and it is conventional to request and to acknowledge permission to reproduce them. Institutions often charge a small fee for copies of such images.
-- Stanley Wertheim
5/27/08 |
Versions of "An Experiment in Misery"
I am a student of American Literature in Spain. We are currently studying Stephen Crane, and his short story "An Experiment in Misery". I have been doing some research and I have found a webpage indicating that there was a foreword and a coda, not generally included in book versions, but which appeared in the original New York Press printing. It can be found in the following webpage: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Experiment_in_Misery
Could you please help me verify this piece of information? Thanks a lot in advance!
5/24/08 |
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When "An Experiment in Misery" first printed in the New York Press on 22 April 1894, it was enveloped by a framework that begins and ends with a conversation between the young protagonist and an older friend who stand on a sidewalk observing a tramp. This introductory frame continues with the young man going to the studio of an artist friend from whom he borrows an old suit and brown derby hat. "And then the youth went forth to try to eat as the tramp may eat, and sleep as the wanderers sleep." When "An Experiment in Misery" was collected in the Heinemann edition of The Open Boat and Other Stories, the opening frame was dropped, but some of it was incorporated, in revised form, into the body of the story itself. The young man is now depicted as a genuine bum undergoing a real experience, and consequently the title seems inappropriate, and the sentence, revised from the Press, "He was going forth to eat as the wanderer my eat, and sleep as the homeless sleep," is ambiguous. The closing portion of the framework was also deleted in book publication since it had become inapplicable and was in any event redundant to the young man's reflections in the final two paragraphs of the story. The removal of the framework changes the perspective of the central character from that of a dispassionate observer, probably an investigative reporter, to that of a participant whose detachment is tenuous and who fears that he may also become submerged in the in the hapless life of the destitute.
-- Stanley Wertheim
5/27/08
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| Back Issues of Stephen Crane Studies
I am interested in locating information regarding a critical analysis of "The Little Regiment."
Volume 14#2 (Fall, 2005) of Stephen Crane Studies contains an article by John Clendenning about "The Thematic Unity of ' The Little Regiment.'"
May I purchase the volume?
R.S.V.P.
Sincerely yours,
Vincent W. Mele
3/31/08 |
Yes, you can purchase any of the issues of Stephen Crane Studies. We have a printable order form for back issues here:
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/scsform.htm |
| Grant Opportunities: Stephen Crane
I'm writing to inquire about possible grant opportunities for artists associated with Stephen Crane. We represent at our gallery the artist Duston Spear http://saratecchia.com/artists/duston_spear/ who has worked the prose of Crane into her paintings extensively for two decades. She is a wonderful artist and is looking to make a small Crane/Spear publication. It is for this endeavor that she is looking for funding. If you have any suggestions or advice, please do let me know - I'd be extremely grateful for any information.
All the best,
Risa
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Risa Needleman
Associate Director
Sara Tecchia Roma New York
529 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10011
3/31/08
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Crane Poem
I was doing a search for a Crane poem I believe I read as a teen ... about a person chasing the horizon.
Any suggestions where I might find it?
2/17/08
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Yes, this is a poem by Crane. It is from The Black Riders and Other LInes. XXIV
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never-"
"You lie," he cried,
And ran on.
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Poem by Crane
Does anyone know of a poem by Crane entitled Edelweis, Little Rose, or Just Out?
2-3-08 |
No, nobody knows of a poem by Crane entitled "Edelweis," "Little Rose," or "Just Out." In fact, Crane poems don't have titles.
--Stanley Wertheim, 2/17/08 |
Decoration Day articles by Crane?
I was looking at two articles in "Nineteenth Century Fiction," one by Daniel Hoffman and the other by Thomas Gullason debating whether or not Crane was the author of two newspaper pieces: “The Gratitude of a Nation”
and “Veteran’s Ranks Thinner by a Year.”
I have been unable to find further commentary on this issue. Have these articles been dismissed as not written by Crane, accepted into his canon, or passed over as irrelevant?
John Casey
PhD Candidate
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of English
1-11-08 |
The question of whether Crane wrote “The Gratitude of a Nation” or “Veterans Ranks Thinner by a Year” or neither or both, is discussed at length, as are most of the other 1950s teapot tempests of this nature involving Crane, under the appropriate titles in A Stephen Crane Encyclopedia (1997).
--Stanley Wertheim, 1/12/08
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According to The Stephen Crane Encyclopedia, "There is some controversy over this Decoration Day newspaper piece ["The Gratitude of a Nation"]. . . . It seems unlikely that Crane [in a letter to Hamlin Garland] is referring to this manuscript since "tHe Gratitude of a Nation" is a sentimental and thoroughly conventional tribue to the diminishing number of Civil War veterans . . . . Mor probably, Crane in his letter ot Garland is alluding to the sardonic 'Veterans' Ranks Thinner by the Year'" (135) although "Crane's authorship of this sardonic Decoration Day parade report ["Veterans"] . . . is debatable" (351).
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Crane Memorial
When the Crane Memorial of Mulberry Street in Newark was demolished in 1997, was anything preserved?
1-11-08 |
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| Crane's residence in Rought Dunmore
I was wondering if you might have the Rought Dunmore address where Crane stayed. I was a studnet in the Dunmore School District many many years ago. Back then, an English teacher told me that Crane stayed in a house on Blakely Street.
Thank you for your help
Kim
1/1/08 |
On 18-19 May 1894, Crane and a friend, the illustrator Corwin Knapp Linson, travelled to the area of Scranton, Pennsylvana, to research a feature article on working conditions in the coal mines for the McClure Syndicate. After two descents into one of the Dunmore mines, Crane wrote a draft of his article at the house of the painter John Willard Raught in Dunmore. I do not know the precise address of this house. “In the Depths of a Coal Mine” was syndicated by McClure in various newspapers on 22 July and included in the August 1894 issue of McClure’s Magazine with illustrations by Linson.
--Stanley Wertheim, 1/3/08 |
