Happy 100, ECU!

In the coming months, this site will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1909 founding of East Central University by enjoying virtual cake (see image at right) and posting notes on literary achievements of the past century.

Any and all in our ECU English and Languages community are welcome to contribute to this project. If you'd like to weigh in, just e-mail me (sbenton@ecok.edu) an item for the relevant time period and I'll do my best to find a home for it in this webspace in a timely manner.

I'll include an updated list of links to items that come in here:

1913 "The Village Atheist" by Edgar Lee Masters (contributed by Trisha Yarbrough)

1913: "Lullaby" by Irma Spriggs (contributed by Steve Benton)
1914: Birth Year of Oklahoma Writers of Note (contributed by Trisha Yarbrough)

1914: "Tender Buttons" by Gertrude Stein (contributed by Steve Benton)
1916: Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure (contributed by Steve Benton)

1916: "Gadji beri bimba" by Hugo Ball (contributed by Steve Benton)
1916: "A Pact" by Ezra Pound (contributed by Trisha Yarbrough)
1917: "The Young Housewife" by William Carlos Williams (contributed by Trisha Yarbrough)

1919: "The Uncanny" by Sigmund Freud (contributed by Steve Benton)

1919: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" by T. S. Eliot (contributed by Steve Benton)

1919: "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens (contributed by Ken Hada)

1920: "The Good English Army" formed by students and faculty of ECU (contributed by Steve Benton)

1924: "Literature and Revolution" by Leon Trotsky (contributed by Steve Benton)

1925: "The City" by Franz Masereel (contributed by Joshua Grasso)

1926: "Criteria of Negro Art" by W. E. B. DuBois (contributed by Steve Benton)

1926: "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" by Langston Hughes (contributed by Steve Benton)

1931: "La guitarra" by Federico Garcia Lorca (contributed by Wendy Leraas)

1934: "Characteristics of Negro Expression" by Zora Neale Hurston (contributed by Steve Benton)

1935: "Discourse in the Novel" by Mikhail Bakhtin (contributed by Steve Benton)

1936: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" by Walter Benjamin (contributed by Steve Benton)

1938: "Criticism, Inc." by John Crowe Ransom (contributed by Steve Benton)

1938: "Marxism and Literature" by Edmund Wilson (contributed by Steve Benton)

1938: "Realism in the Balance" by Gyorgy Lukacs (contributed by Steve Benton)

1939: "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck (contributed by Ken Hada)

1946: "Kinds of Criticism" by Kenneth Burke (contributed by Steve Benton)

1946: "The Intentional Fallacy" by William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley (contributed by Steve Benton)

1947: "Dialect of Enlightenment" by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer (contributed by Steve Benton)